Yeah, I misread your initial post. Thanks for addressing it. Usually we are not too far apart on these things...

I think I was not clear in my post.
When I said 'horrible' I was agreeing that there is something wrong with the system,
not about Sheriff Joe's actions to try to deal with it.
I'd favor public capital punishment (impalement on the national mall appeals to me)
for all those proven to be traitors regarding stolen elections, and mass murderers
who developed and/or implemented bio-weapons (for example.)

Good Luck with that.
We are Jailing "Fathers" For not paying child support. Is this NOT a Debtors Prison?

And by father, I mean the name the mother OFTEN LIED about to get them on the birth certificate, and JUST TRY to get a genetic test done. Once your name is there, it's your child.

This is only just starting to change.

But I believe in having as few laws as possible. But the punishment for breaking the laws must DETER someone. Losing a hand the second time you get caught stealing is FINE by me.

Maybe I have just seen too many horrible people punishing good people. When do we get to say "Society will NOT tolerate you!"

Yes, this should not be for FAKE "Jan 6th" I peeked through the door crimes.

But if you rape, kill or violently beat people.
How many times WOULD YOU say they could do that BEFORE we terminate them.

Finally, the upside of terminating too many people, even a few good people. Is that EITHER the people will revolt, or there will be no more GOOD people!

A high school buddy of mine became a guard at a minimum security jail.
He had three brothers who were bikers.
Every fall they would commit same minor crime, with the hope of being incarcerated over the winter, same deal: three hots and a cot.
Ride out the winter in jail, come out in the spring and ride the summer away.
They would always be sent to the same facility where their little brother was the guard!
I could only shake my head when he related the story to me.

What you describe is horrible.
That scenario was typical in every country before the founders created the States United.
Lincoln and many other looting traitors that followed destroyed the republican form and the justice system that the founders established.
D.C. has ruined the republic.
The republic must be restored as it was in 1781 (Article of Confederation) but without slavery.

!!

Based on what you offer your brother is living the worst of "Ben Hur" and "Le Miserabe'". The Founders attempted to lay the corner stone of a justice system and we now have a legal system. They are not the same.

Deals are made.
Money need not trade hands.
Deal-making is it's own form of currency.

Then there is the case of my brother-in-law.

He lives in California, on the streets.
By no fault of his own, he is a paranoid schizophrenic. We pray for him every day.

Yet the man is smart, really smart, he reads constantly.
He goes to the public library every day.
And there lie the rub, they don't want him there.
They call the cops to remove him.
Being who he is, he asserts his right to be there.
Technically, he's right.
Realistically, when a cop tells you to leave, you should leave.
Instead, he gets arrested.
He goes before a judge, he gets put in prison, not a jail for minor offenders, a prison, with murders and extremely violent men, gang bangers and the like, meant for hard-core criminals.
Days turn to weeks, turn to months, turn to years, for being disruptive in a library.
He's kept in solitary confinement.
He's denied basic sundries like soap and tooth paste, they want to charge him for it.
His family is denied contact with him.

After repeated failed attempts to find out what the hell is going on, we resorted the Civil Liberties Union (an organized I normally despise) and after they were denied contact, that got their top attention, damn skippy.
When they finally got to see he, they were appalled, he looked like a cave man, and smelled like one too.
What should have been a couple weeks in a low security jail, turned out to be years in a maximum security prison, often in solitary.

So you tell me? What the f*ck just happened there?

Our Injustice system picks and chooses who walks and who gets F#cked.

I don't think there is anything random about it.

If hard-core criminals prowl the streets, it's because the system wants it that way.

If bothersome people spend their lives incarcerated for minor offices, it's because the powers that be want it that way.

Part of the problem is simply that our Jails are TOO easy, TOO Comfortable.

A good friend had a loser sister. She had a mobile home, dated drug users and criminals (all she could get).

I was horrified when my buddy told me a recent story (after she had passed away)...
That her last boyfriend comes home and tells her:
I am going to go "back in... For the 3 hots and a cot... I am tired of working!"
He went out and got caught committing a break-in, as PLANNED.

There is SOMETHING SERIOUSLY wrong with our system. The guy had a "roof, a bed,
and a girlfriend"... But having to work to help pay the bills she could not... Was too much.

First... Sheriff Joe put these guys in PINK. Made them sleep in tents, in the AZ heat.
And Recidivism dropped. Imagine that. We need this.

Second... Because I CANNOT trust my government to be HONEST... I cannot support the
death penalty. But there should be: 3 Strikes and you are DEAD.

Finally, the overcrowding in prisons is 100% because of Illegals in Federal Prisons. Just do the math. They make up about 30% last time I checked. I say we send them to south america or to fight in Ukraine. Or we just execute them. Here illegally and you killed or raped someone. Dead.

The system designed to protect the innocent should abhor what it has become!

Or modern lack there of . . .

I think a lot of this can be traced to the Tolerance of the Judges that allow the filth to roam freely.

There was a story in the Seattle PI regarding the fact that much of the crime in Seattle was the result of a small number of felons -- you sort the histogram and The Usual Suspects percolate to the top. They were just turn-styled through the system -- processed, and let out on the streets of Seattle -- good for Business, when the Business is the legal / judicial System.

One of the primary culprits in this mess was homeless bum Travis Berge.
Eventually, reality hit this piece of filth hard -- dirt nap: "Around 12:30 a.m., SWAT officers entered the pump house and found the man dead inside a 10-foot tank which contained about 50 gallons of a 12% bleach solution, officers said."

Article: https://www.seattlepi.com/local/komo/...

An even more detailed / better article: https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/meth...

In the above detailed article, it will be necessary to click on the embedded video located on the upper-left portion of the page, turn on the sound, open to full screen if you care to. This is just one example of how one homeless bum can result in millions of dollars in damages, costs to the health system and, in the end, first degree murder.

Wow

Nicely done, LibertyPen!

From the article: "When a society chooses to tolerate violent behavior, it does not abolish violence. It reallocates it—away from criminals and toward law-abiding people." There it is in the nutshell.

👍 Thank you, LibertyPen!