Parolee Turns Life Around!
Just kidding! He's out committing crime, as per usual:
- A man on parole for trying to shoot a police officer has been arrested for stealing a car from one woman and trying to rob another on the West Side, authorities said.
Artavis Johnson, 31, of the 100 block of North Laramie Avenue in the South Austin neighborhood, is charged with aggravated vehicular hijacking with a firearm and armed robbery with a firearm. He was ordered held without bail in a hearing midday today in Cook County bond court, according to the Cook County state's attorney's office.
Gee, an attempted killing of a police officer. Let's see what his sentence was:
- Johnson was convicted of a handful of felonies after he went on a crime spree in 2003 that ended with him trying to shoot a police officer, according to a Tribune article from the time and Illinois Department of Corrections records.
Johnson, then 21, tried to carjack someone in the 1500 block of North Kolin Avenue and then tried to rob someone in the 1500 block of West Thomas Street. While running from officers who stopped the car, he pointed a gun at police and squeezed the trigger. The gun didn’t fire.
Johnson was sentenced to 16 years in prison for armed robbery, 12 years for aggravated vehicular hijacking with a weapon, five years for being a felon in possession of a firearm and three years for aggravated assault of a police officer with a firearm.
He was released from Illinois Department of Corrections custody in July 2012 and was scheduled to have his parole discharged in July 2014.
Let's see....16+12+5+3 = 36 years. And the 3 years was for attempting to murder a police officer. Since he was out, we assume the sentences were served concurrently instead of consecutively, which is asinine in any event.
2003+16 years = 2019. That is if there were truth in sentencing. But this is Illinois, so he's out, jacking cars, with a gun again. Anyone else think there might be a problem with the Parole Board that thinks this jagoff is a good risk?
Oh, and the topper?
2003+16 years = 2019. That is if there were truth in sentencing. But this is Illinois, so he's out, jacking cars, with a gun again. Anyone else think there might be a problem with the Parole Board that thinks this jagoff is a good risk?
Oh, and the topper?
- Johnson had also been sentenced to 42 months in prison in 2002 for possession of narcotics and two years in prison in 2000 on the same charge.
So if he had served the 3.5 years he got in 2002, he never would have been on the street in 2003 to get the next 36 years that he only served 9 of.
Illinois is broken.
Illinois is broken.
Labels: un-fucking-believable
posted by SCC at 12:04 AM
36 Comments:
This is why birth control and abortions should be free in the ghetto. This guy should have been aborted 31 years ago.
Think about how much money that would have saved the taxpayers.
..just sayin
I'm afraid we are soon to find out just how broken.
This is another case of any law in Illinois where time is served is meaningless.
The State is broke and can't keep shitbirds locked up so it's a revolving door. Shitbird in, Shitbird out.
Then the politicians sit around in hearings increasing 6 month sentences in to longer sentences and write new laws making law abiding citizens criminal while the criminals who know the system and that the State is broke go on doing what they do, breaking laws, but in stead of breaking 33 laws, now it's 34 laws.
Man this State gets more fucked up every day.
not a cop
Where is Paul Kersey when you need him?
The largest problem is in Cook County. This should be investigated Federally. There is something so very wrong here that places all of the citizens in jeopardy. If there was any real media there would be shit flying.
un real
Here's a good example of having to register as a violent felon just like a sex offender.
It's a CRIME DETERRENT. Imaging a violent felon having to register, picture posted on Internet, and the offense committed.
Plus they would have to pay $$ for registering.
Illinois could generate pension revenue.
The communists need their voters out on the streets.
If you still vote for them, you are the enemy.
Reopen TAMMS and close the farm prisons
Make crime and doing time a deterrent
Yet Quinn keeps getting re-elected term after term when he allows and endorses release of criminals out of prisons in the ploy of saving money. The best thing to do is exit this city and state as fast as humanly possible. Every time i see Quinn and all these politicians smiling on t.v. or at these charitable events with "reverends" makes me think about all the true victims who get robbed, raped, and maimed because he and others like county board president thinks its acceptable to let low life thugs out before their sentence is served. Its baffles me that voters are so oblivious to this. My heart will be for the victims. Instead most politicians would rather stand and hold hands with a parolee. It will never get better. Sorry for be a downer. But this is reality and CPD officers know it better than everyone.
Surprising,Ummmm,No,Not to us anyway..........
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Just another fine example of the Illinois catch and release program. Perhaps the state should close all the prisons, just think of all the money saved, that could be spent on welfare programs instead. After all if we give them everything there is no need to steal or commit crimes in utopia.
Somehow this will get blamed on Conservatives and I can hear it now. "The drastic funding cuts in Public Education have lead to lowered math comprehension and resulted in sentences for career criminals not being served to their full conclusion because of the lack of understanding for basic addition".
Signed, Anonymous
Here's a good example of having to register as a violent felon just like a sex offender.
It's a CRIME DETERRENT. Imaging a violent felon having to register, picture posted on Internet, and the offense committed.
Plus they would have to pay $$ for registering.
Illinois could generate pension revenue
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They do it in the burbs for murderers.. First of all they shouldn't be walking around free!! Second the shitheads will think its a great honor to have they're pictures up ,"see that mutha fuckas! I's fo real!! "
Anonymous said...
This is why birth control and abortions should be free in the ghetto. This guy should have been aborted 31 years ago.
Think about how much money that would have saved the taxpayers.
..just sayin
2/23/2013 12:25:00 AM
Imagine the dreams his proud parents must have had for the little Artavis. "Oh Cleotus, how many felony convictions do you thing little Artavis will amass by time he is 35?? "Cleotus?" "Oh Cleotus"? "Damn mo' fo' Cleotus in prison again, mo' fo."
Imagine the hopes and dreams of his teachers, the ministers who had a hand in forming his spiritual life. His aunties and uncles, well, aunties at any rate. And what about all his spawned chilluns? The next generation of felons, thugs, stick up guys, car jackers and sociopaths. They are out there right now padding the stats on their own IR numbers, for sure.
So what do you do with a failed society whose manhood is exemplified by the likes of Artavis? What do you do? Well, you fight for a concealed carry law so perhaps one day soon a well armed citizen can dispatch Artavis to a well deserved eternity in a county funded hole in the ground.
Unfortunately birth control and abortions ARE free in the ghetto. Having a baby is nothing but a slight inconvenience and very benefical financially in the long run. It is considered a long range investment in their share of the obama money stash.
Why can't these crooks on early release cross paths with Madigan or Quinn. That would be poetic justice.
recently viewed an incredible rap sheet--- close to 140 arrests with over 90 felonies and the rest misdemeanors--- 24 convictions for retail theft--- many of the retail thefts were not upgraded because food items were taken even though mr shitbird has 24 prior retail theft convictions--- I will post the IR # if anyone is interested and scc allows it....
Blago gets 14 yrs. JJJr will do 4. Ol 'habeas corpus' Drew maxed out. But with name like Artavis (or Trayvon for that matter) gets you a automatic prickwrinkle jail time discount.
I have a lot of problems with this here. Had he been made to serve his 42 month sentence he wouldn't of been on the street in 2003 to almost kill a cop.
Also if he pulled the trigger on the gun that he was pointing at a cop, then why is he still breathing. He should of been taken out right there.
Also since when should the most serious of the offenses committed get the softest punishment. In my opinion if he pulled the trigger he was trying to kill the cop. That should of got the 16 years and not the 3.
He was convicted twice before with felonies and is out to commit 4 more and then he is given time off and not have to serve the whole sentence.
The criminal justice system is becoming a bigger and bigger joke every day.
But if a copper so much as stole a bag of chips (not that that's right), he'd be serving 10 years and actually doing 9.8. Facetious example, but you know what I mean.
I really don't think the general public are aware of how fucked up and coddling our courts and jails are.
"Here's a good example of having to register as a violent felon just like a sex offender.
It's a CRIME DETERRENT. Imaging a violent felon having to register, picture posted on Internet, and the offense committed.
Plus they would have to pay $$ for registering.
Illinois could generate pension revenue."
2/23/2013 02:11:00 AM
Stop.
You are dealing here with people who will lure someone into the house, strangle and dismember them, and then lose interest in the dead body and sit playing video games until the police arrive.
Either that, or they will kill their own mother, partially burn the body right out back in the barbecue pit and leave it there, and make necklaces out of Mom's bones and bits of flesh and post pictures of THAT on the Internet all by themselves.
Make them fill out forms.
"Reopen TAMMS and close the farm prisons
Make crime and doing time a deterrent"
2/23/2013 02:13:00 AM
The old "Fantasy Prisons" again.
Illinois now has 49,000 in a prison system with 33,000 capacity. Let's make the whole thing beyond Level 1, Supermax like you say, with two-three COs required to even move an inmate thirty feet to take a shower.
Every inmate.
Every day.
Every time someone wants an aspirin.
Right.
"Deterrent." A uniformed, armed, on-duty police officer was standing at the Jefferson Park station once, and he was attacked, the attacker trying to get his gun away from him, until the officer had to shoot and kill the assailant.
Nothing deters some people.
A tiny pressure group, wielding influence out of all proportion to its numbers, WANTS our society to be a chaotic Third World s__thouse, and every day they do everything they can to make it that way and keep it that way while guaranteeing vast riches for themselves.
Solutions are unwanted. "Curing poverty and crime" would interfere with the cash flow.
"Where is Paul Kersey when you need him?"
2/23/2013 01:02:00 AM
In the TV set, along with all the other ridiculous material Hollywood produces to let the proles blow off steam witout actually harming valuable criminals. Clint Eastwood out there with a Garand. "Get off my lawn, Clyde."
Please. You can't even drive through here with unloaded guns locked in the trunk.
Better to ask "Where is Bernhard Goetz when you need him?"
"...one count of Criminal Possession of a Weapon in the Third Degree, and two counts of Criminal Possession of a Weapon in the Fourth Degree. The Grand Jury dismissed charges of Attempted Murder, Assault, and Reckless Endangerment.
"The prosecutor later sought permission from the court to resubmit the case to another Grand Jury with additional evidence. On March 27, 1985, the second Grand Jury returned an indictment charging Goetz with four counts of Attempted Murder, four counts of Assault, one count of Reckless Endangerment, and one count of Criminal Possession of a Weapon in the Third Degree.
"Ultimately, the jury in the criminal trial acquitted Goetz of all the charges except criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree. One of the victims of the shooting, Darrell Cabey, who remained paralyzed, sued Goetz. The jury found in favor of Cabey and awarded him the sum of $18,000,000 in compensatory damages and $25,000,000 in punitive damages..."
Pointed a gun at the police and the prick lived to go to jail? He should be dead. At what point did these officers decide that deadly force was not warranted? Use of force model boys and girls.....use it.
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This criminal predators life is not that unusual in this metropolis of a city nor is his sentence and early release. The fact that he received 3 years for the attempted murder of a police officer speaks volumes about how low the profession of law enforcement has sunk in the eyes of the judiciary system.
This is the more telling fact. An officer of the law risks his life to capture a violent offender.
By the grace of God the gun fails to fire after the offender pointed the weapon at the officer with the intent to violently injure the officer. By state statue the offender commits the act of an attempt murder of a peace officer in the performance of his duty.
The state down grades this to an aggravated assault of a police officer. A lesser charge with lesser penalty. This emboldens the criminals both in the pen and on the street. The officers on the street are not immune to the disrespect shown by this and numerous other acts of failure to enforce the laws as written when police officers are the victims.
This inaction by the states attorney contributes directly to the morale of working police who will now think more then twice about putting their life and the future of their families on the line when apprehending some low life that gets more consideration in the judicial process then they do.
This is not an isolated incident. It happens quite often. There should be no bargaining down of charges when protected employees are victims.
You the state attorneys are not doing your job. You are weak and unrealistic. You want a 90 percent conviction rate so you bargain down charges at the expense of working police officers and the public. This is a political agenda that weakens the fabric of society in this city.
If it quacks then it must be a duck. Why do we need a duck to approve felony charges? We don't.
Until one happens to kill a judge or politician, this crap of early release will keep going on.
They need that Arizona Sheriff to clean things up here. But with the thinking in this State, it won't happen. Vote for me cause I let you out early.
If it quacks then it must be a duck. Why do we need a duck to approve felony charges? We don't.
2/23/2013 01:19:00 PM
Now you've done it.
I've got the Donald Duck voice singing 'Don't Blame Me' constantly repeating in my brain.
You vicious bastard.
Will someone please explain to me why it isn't automatic life in jail if there is an attempt on or God forbid if someone does kill a police officer? You guys put your lives on the line every day for people you don't even know, and you have to live knowing that some jerk will get out of jail if he takes a shot at you. Why is that?
Artavis? Isnt that an "L" stop on the red line?
If Artavis had a FOID card, he would be serving life. Since he didnt have one and tried to kill a police officer, it wasnt pre-meditated. Everyone knows FOID carriers are potential murderers, thus it takes planning to get a foid card, therefore it makes every shooting pre-meditated. If you dont have a FOID, you are just a victim of circumstance.
Early release means early democrat voter.
Maybe we could fund a study to see if early release felons vote for republicans?
Anonymous said...
Yet Quinn keeps getting re-elected term after term when he allows and endorses release of criminals out of prisons in the ploy of saving money. The best thing to do is exit this city and state as fast as humanly possible. Every time i see Quinn and all these politicians smiling on t.v. or at these charitable events with "reverends" makes me think about all the true victims who get robbed, raped, and maimed because he and others like county board president thinks its acceptable to let low life thugs out before their sentence is served. Its baffles me that voters are so oblivious to this. My heart will be for the victims. Instead most politicians would rather stand and hold hands with a parolee. It will never get better. Sorry for be a downer. But this is reality and CPD officers know it better than everyone.
2/23/2013 02:53:00 AM
Huh? Quinn has never been re-elected as you say. He's only been in one term and hopefully that's it. Quinn was Lt. Gov. and replaced Blago after his impeachment. After that he got officially elected.
Something most of us have known for a long time.... it isnt a gun control problem, it's a broken system of the revolving door... once arrested it's just a brief break in their daily routine.
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