I don’t get it. The police are not provided enough funding to do their jobs so they have to acquire funding from otherwise innocent civilians. Speed traps for instance, pulling people over for going 5-10 miles an hour over the speed limit even though they are driving with the flow of traffic. Tickets for people running lights because the light changed colors while they were going through it though there is no standard in duration for these lights, a yellow light could be anywhere from 2 seconds to 20 seconds long making it a guess every time. I remember in Texas we had the police go on a crusade for a while going into bars and making arrests and writing tickets for public intox because technically according to the law you cannot be anywhere in public including inside a public establishment and be drunk. People being pulled over and passengers given public intox tickets even though they did the right thing and had a designated driver. Why has local & federal law enforcement reform never been brought up as a debate item in the presidential election. Why is this a federal issue? Because apparently the local and state law enforcement entities need more federal funding!
I say if there is not a victim there is not a crime! I am tired of victimless crime being punished just to make a buck, it makes a mockery of our freedom.
While we are on the subject of victimless crime lets talk about drug addiction. I believe I read somewhere that over half of our prison systems are clogged up with drug related offenders. Come on, these people have a drug addiction they need help not incarceration! Unless they actually committed a crime against someone else while under intoxication or in pursuit of intoxication there is no victim other than themselves and thus there is no crime! So we fill our prison systems with these drug addicts, some for life due to new 3 strike laws. In the meantime to make space for drug addicts, we are letting convicted rapists and murderers out on the streets in as little as 5 or 6 years because we don’t have the space to house them. WHERE ARE OUR PRIORITIES! I remember a child molester in Texas that was charged with raping 6 kids, he admitted to raping over 200 but they could only prove the 6. In 7 years he was up for parole and they released him despite him stating he would commit the crime again. The man asked to be castrated but they wouldn’t do it because it was against his civil liberties. Of course he was back in less than 2 months for committing the same crime! We needed his prison cell that bad, there was that much more significant of a criminal that needed incarceration?
So I say why is this continued to be overlooked, why is it we don’t see any initiatives to address this? Am I the only person here who finds this to be an issue?
-S
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iam7545
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Oct 20 @ 11:57AM
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In Washington DC - they write you a $150 ticket is you do not have a front license tag and your state requires it! SO if your state does not require a front tag - not ticket - if it does - TICKET! So this has nothing to do with anything - but raising money. This was put into effect when Marion (bitch set me up) Barry was Mayor of DC. Some called it his cocaine tax!
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Panzer105
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Oct 20 @ 12:36PM
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Our law enforcement and criminal justice system is a shambles, and has been for years. It is just now coming to the attention of the BIG media, and they are beginning to expose the corruption and victimaization. It began when Bush, in 2005, acknowleged in his State of the Union Address that we had a problem with our criminal justice system, when it is being found due to recent DNA technology that 10 percent of the people on death row were in fact innocent. My My... the prosecutors cops and Judges run scurrying..... It's not OUR fault they wail... (it IS, you know?) If 10 percent on death row are actually innocent, what with all the appelate protections they enjoy, how about the mainstream prison populations?? 30percent?40 percent? deduct from that the pot possession busts and you have reduced our prison populations by 60-70 percent, a figure more in line with the world prison population average.
The criminal justice system in the U.S. is totally out of control, and it will take more than voting to fix it.
Ademus Jura Nostra Defendre...(we dare to defend our rights). This is displayed on my business card. I was once accused by a prosecutor of being anti government...
till I pointed out to the idiot that he was reading the Alabama state motto, the words eblazoned on the Alabama state flag...
He's almost right.... anti government...CORRUPTION. 
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sparechange64
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Oct 20 @ 12:59PM
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yeah panzer ... everything is bush's fault 
10% innocent? Horse manure ... You think the media wouldn't have a field day with these figures IF there was any validity to it
simple posessions with little to no record are set free and given probabtion or fines = your 60-70% number is rediculous
THE COLD HARD TRUTH is that criminals do not fear prison: air conditioning, color cable tv, recreation, free education, free medical/dental care, ILLEGAL aliens
and ... no MANDATORY classes, work farms outlawed almost everywhere  ... when someone has to serve up to a year it's no big thing ... it's a vacation
the system starting going "downhill" in the 50's when work farms started to be outlawed ... in the late 70's when they got cable tv ... and the early 90's when they got airconditioning
and what does someone's statement about a problem have to do with creating that problem ... nothing just another reason why lefties, who got prisoners all the above, to bash ... when are lefties going to come up with solutions instead of continuously blaming everyone else and raising taxes to throw more money at the problem instead of fixing anything? answer - never
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estoyaqui
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Oct 20 @ 1:15PM
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I think he was giving props to Bush for exposing some of the corruption not blaming Bush. I would agree the system has been in decline probably since its conception. I dont know about his numbers either but would be interested in seeing the source.
As for first time pot offenders, I dont care if its a 3 time crack offender it only further identifies that they are an addict not a criminal. Again if they are caught stealing to feed their habit thats another story but for all extents and purposes just because someone victimizes their self with an addiction does not mean there is a crime. People do stupid and dangerous stuff to themselves all the time, smoking cigarettes in private, drinking alcohol, even eating greasy hamburgers all the time could be considered self victimization. People have the right to victimize themselves all they want provided it does not impede on others rights. At most it would be ideal if we offered support to those who have the desire but not the power to escape self victimization. I do not think we should have the right to incriminate these people just because we don't agree with the fashion they choose to victimize themselves.
-Shawn
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sparechange64
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Oct 20 @ 1:50PM
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thanks shawn ... if I am mistaken ... then I whole heartedly apologize ... it was a bit confusing
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Panzer105
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Oct 20 @ 2:11PM
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Want to see the real numbers? Check out The Innocence Project website, and numerous others dedicated to freeing the unjustly incarcerated... There are a BUNCH... I dedicate my retirement (free of charge) to reversing these injustice, what do YOU do about the pronblem???
These numbers did not come out of the air... they are researched and verified by by numerous law schools and attorney organizations....
Bush fault? Where'd I say that? Quoting aState of the Union Address?? Could have been Nixons.... or (shudder) Klintons.
(sheeesh... no wonder we are in trouble)
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alex_192
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Oct 20 @ 3:44PM
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when the PEOPLE give up their freedom, it makes no sence to complain they loose their freedom
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duwant1
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Oct 20 @ 4:16PM
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