Maplewood officer fatally shot in St. Paul

[mitchx3]

Too few prisons or too many inmates (due either to too many lawless people or too many laws.)

[FJ540]

We need to make better examples of them. This is exactly why - violent offenders out on the streets after a short stretch due to overcrowding or weak prosecution is hardly a deterrent.

This is precisely why I say cook `em. That's the message we need to be sending. Pull this crap, and your hair will look like photo number 1 right before it starts smoking. Cop killers need to be in the (crematorium) ash can, not prison.

[SAM]

http://www.twincities.com/news/ci_14998273?source=rss

Behold dirtbag #1:



Fortunately this scumbag met his just fate at the end of a police officer's gun. Not surprisingly, he served time in prison for aggravated armed robbery. He was given supervised release on 3/15/2010 and quickly violated the terms of his parole, thereby becoming a fugitive.

http://info.doc.state.mn.us/publicviewe ... OID=226053

My question to the apologists who insist on letting scum like this back on the streets.....

Why was someone who was convicted in a double-shooting back on the streets less than THREE YEARS after he was convicted? I know, part of the problem is prosecuters who allow weapons charges to be plea bargained out, but "supervised release" after 27 months for aggravated assault and robbery where two victims were shot is unacceptable. Especially when the convict was a perpetrator of a violent crime. There is something drastically wrong with our criminal justice system, and I fear that until our elected officials develop the cojones to properly fix the problem, it's not going to get any better.

+1 MNNavy------------this problem has been around ever since we decided as a nation that we can't hang horse thieves. The court system--judges and attorneys are the laughing stock of the BG's. They now have more rights than you and I do----just like all the illegals in the US. Somebody should be held accountable for this officers death and I think it should be the justice system. Everything about the SYSTEM is turned inside out and upside down.