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Before I was out of Law Enforcement I started doing restorative justice work in the prisons and jails. It involved Christian ministry but was intensive. I have no illusions about the success rate but any success is a good thing and none of those guys can say they never had a chance. After I retired I was "unpaid staff" for 10 years for a Christian non profit organization that taught ex cons and drug addicts (mostly) the skills to get a job. That organization had a 70% success rate.
None of those organizations held that a person shouldn't pay their "debt to society" as part of their rehab.
That has changed. Now "restorative justice" means a free pass. I was listening to a "woman of color" whose son was cut down on the streets of New York by two men and a woman who, apparently stabbed him to death just for grins. Under the new NYC bail laws everybody gets a bail they can "pay without hardship" and there is no denial of bail if the defendant is a public menace so the mom got to watch her sons killers walk. Then the DAs office came to her and told her that if she did counselling with the woman involved the murderess could get her probable sentence reduced to five years from 20. Obviously mom found that to be incredibly insulting. No one seems to think that there is the possibility that these three could be sociopaths/psychopaths who don't give a rats a$$ about anybody's suffering and are happy to go through the motions with something that will lighten their load with no intent to "amend their lives." Stuff like that has been around for a long time but in the past those encounters occurred when the "perp" was in jail.
Houston is now the murder capital of the country because of this stuff and the only solution is to vote out the Democrat Soros funded DA and Judges. The problem is I don't know if the Republican party will go to the mat and make that the hill they're willing to die on.
None of those organizations held that a person shouldn't pay their "debt to society" as part of their rehab.
That has changed. Now "restorative justice" means a free pass. I was listening to a "woman of color" whose son was cut down on the streets of New York by two men and a woman who, apparently stabbed him to death just for grins. Under the new NYC bail laws everybody gets a bail they can "pay without hardship" and there is no denial of bail if the defendant is a public menace so the mom got to watch her sons killers walk. Then the DAs office came to her and told her that if she did counselling with the woman involved the murderess could get her probable sentence reduced to five years from 20. Obviously mom found that to be incredibly insulting. No one seems to think that there is the possibility that these three could be sociopaths/psychopaths who don't give a rats a$$ about anybody's suffering and are happy to go through the motions with something that will lighten their load with no intent to "amend their lives." Stuff like that has been around for a long time but in the past those encounters occurred when the "perp" was in jail.
Houston is now the murder capital of the country because of this stuff and the only solution is to vote out the Democrat Soros funded DA and Judges. The problem is I don't know if the Republican party will go to the mat and make that the hill they're willing to die on.
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