"Dis is de story of two lil bros, Darcus and Damarcus, who got busted by de po-leece, even dough dey din' do nuffin much.
"Dey was good bwoyz, tryin' to turn deir lives around. One wanted to be a DJ and de other wanted to be a basketball player. Now dem white supremacist pigs makin' dem out to be poster chil'ren fo gun control. Huh!"
We'll let Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri tell you why Darcus and Damarcus are "known to police". It begins with a Christmas shopping expedition...
Did you catch the play? At yesterday's presser, Sheriff Bob said that the two boys carried guns all the time, according to interviews with their relatives, and they had both previously been booked for car burglaries and other crimes.
“The problem is," he said, "you got way too many kids out there with way too many guns."
He added, "They’re not old enough to understand and have the right coping mechanisms to deal with this stuff when they are upset." That's PC speak for: we have to make allowance for them because they're disadvantaged, and society hasn't given them help understanding the difference between right and wrong. Oh, hahahahaha.
Then we come to the real problem. "In the last 30 days, we’ve taken reports where seventeen guns have been stolen from unlocked cars." So the problem is that people aren't locking their car doors, right? There oughta be a law against that!
Noooooooo, Karen. The real problem is that there are "young thugs" (Sheriff Gualtieri's words -- he missed the adjective "black") -- who are wandering around looking fo9r un locked cars from which they can steal.
Although they're still teens, both Damarcus and Darcus have records as long as their arms for that sort of thing. They have been in the "justice" system since they were PRE-teens. The police keep charging them with various crimes, often violent, and liberal prosecutors and liberal judges let them out on bail, putting them on probation, giving them slaps on the wrist.
Why? Because the aforementioned minions of the justice system suffer from terminal white liberal guilt combined with state-mandated political correctness. "Kids" like Darcus and Damarcus don't steal guns and sahoot people because they're bad. They do it because they are disadvantaged yoofs, which gives them a deck of get-out-of-jail-free cards.
So they walk through the revolving doors of the courthouse and commit another crime after another and another. And innocent people get injured and killed. As Sheriff Gualtieri said, "it's ridiculous."
Fact finding in regard to offenses by juveniles should be ratified in municipal courts (when the top count is a misdemeanor) or superior courts which specialize in criminal cases (when the top count is a felony). No need to have a separate set of courts for juveniles; facts are facts. Penal codes should have sentencing formulae for defendants under 25 at the time of their crime which convert years of incarceration to years on probation in inverse proportion to the offender's age at the time of the offense and should abjure the use of probation for defendants over 25 at the time of their offense. All prisons and jails should be segmented into compounds and cell blocks which are age graded and between the boundaries of which prisoners of different age grades do not pass. (Posit grades of 9-11, 11-14, 14-17, 17-21, 21-25, 25-40, 40-62, and > 62 for males in prison, with a coarser set of grades for those in jail and for women's institutions). Fines, restitution, forfeiture, labor services, and loss of franchises (e.g. drivers licenses) should be supplementary penalties for individuals convicted of penal code offenses; the primary penalty should always be incarceration or corporal punishment. Conditional discharge and unconditional discharge and social work hoo ha should never be a sentence imposed. Sentencing should be by formula with little discretion accorded judges.
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