http://www.policymic.com/articles/64603/750-000-americans-arrested-for-marijuana-every-year-while-most-murderers-walk-free
Nearly 750,000 people, disproportionately individuals of color, are arrested every year in the United States for marijuana-related crimes. Of these, nearly 87% are arrested for simple possession. America is clearly tough on crime, right?
Sure, when the crime happens to involve possession of a small amount of a controlled substance. But, when the crime happens to be the not-so-small infraction of murder, law enforcement has a more difficult time cracking down.According to the FBI’s 2012 Annual Uniform Crime Report, more than half (53.2%) of all violent crimes in the United States go unsolved. The overall clearance rate for murder cases is even higher.
now what's wrong with this picture? is it just easier for the prosecutors to pad their win list and less cost to the people, and many more cases solved looks good on a resume, murder is expensive and geared to those with money to buy their freedom, those who do not have that luxury are what we call "inmates".
going on that premise Issa has the worse record in history.
It’s not that the police haven’t gotten any better at solving crime in recent years. It’s that they’ve actually gotten worse. Fun fact: National clearance rates for murder and manslaughter have fallen from close to 90 percent in the 1960s to below 65 percent in recent years. The problem isn’t confined to any particular region of the country, as the average homicide solution rate during the last two decades fell in 63 of the nation’s 100 largest departments.Cops haven't been overwhelmed by a surge in violent crime, either. Murder rates are at the lowest rate they’ve been since the 1960s. This widespread failure means that thousands of people a year (around 6,000 or so) are quite literally getting away with murder.The big problem is federal laws provide perverse incentives for police departments to emphasize drug law enforcement over fighting serious crimes.
i am hearing "we have to support and keep those private prisons full and fat, kick backs abound. they say they are underfunded could that be because of wasteful prosecution and arrest of first offenders for a joint or two?
Asset forfeiture laws are also a big part of the problem. The Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act passed in 1970 authorizes federal law enforcement to seize property, including money and vehicles, alleged to have facilitated illegal drug transactions or the proceeds of such transactions. Over 40 states provide for asset forfeiture, as well. And in 1984, Congress passed the Comprehensive Crime Control Act, empowering local police to share in the proceeds of their seizures in a program Equitable Sharing. This legislation fueled an explosion in law enforcement asset seizures.An audit performed by the Justice Department in September of 2012 shows that for the period of October 1, 2000, through September 30, 2011, the DEA and other federal agencies processed over 150,644 seized assets valued at about $9.2 billion. Assets seized at the state level total over one billion dollars annually, while local police departments average more than $7,000 per department each year.
or is it about the Benjamins and the bling?
