Charges on Parolee
We'd really like to see the criteria Quinn and the IDOC use to decide prisoners can go back on the street without completing their sentences, because this seems to be happening all the time:
- A parolee who police said was shooting at someone before he turned his weapon on officers early Saturday morning was charged with aggravated battery this afternoon, police said.
David Johnson, 23, of the 3200 block of West 66th Street, was charged with two counts of aggravated battery to an officer, unlawful use of a weapon by a felon, aggravated assault-discharge of a firearm, unlawful possession of a fire arm by a street gang member and armed habitual criminal, police said. Johnson also had a warrant out for his arrest for a parole violation.
The charges stem from a Saturday police-involved shooting on the 6300 block of South King Drive.
We would wish him a long and extensive stay in the Illinois penal system, but that doesn't seem likely, regardless.
posted by SCC at 12:01 AM
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PULLING NUMBERS OUT OF A HAT.
Yeah get a load of this..
Illinois prisons are said to have been built to support 32,000 inmates. We now have 49,000 inmates.
Are the prisons overcrowded Quinn was asked? Nope, they're just crowded.
It's like what the definition of "is" is I guess.
Quinn: Illinois prisons are not overcrowded
Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn insists the state prison system is not overcrowded despite the fact that there are about 49,000 inmates in facilities built for 32,000 people. In addition, programming dollars are stretched thin, which leaves vast numbers of inmates idle for most of the day.
“I feel that the prisons of our state, and every other state frankly, are crowded,” said Quinn in an hour-long interview on prisons Friday on WBEZ’s Afternoon Shift. “In Illinois we have an adequate number of beds to handle the inmates we have.”
Another note of interest in this story...
"[...]...Quinn says he’d obviously like to bring down the prison population because it costs more than $20,000 a year to house each inmate.
WHAT! $20,000 a year to house an inmate!!? Remember this...
[...]...“Detaining defendants in the jail while they await trial is very expensive for the county and is detrimental to our communities,” Ms. Preckwinkle told county commissioners on Tuesday. “The war on drugs has failed to eradicate drug use. Instead, it has resulted in the incarceration of millions throughout the nation — 100,000 annually right here in Cook County, at a cost of $143 per inmate per day.” ...
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/30/us/reducing-jail-rolls-would-trim-cook-county-costs-preckwinkle-says.html?_r=0
Quinn's $20,000/yr
vs
Preckwinkle's ($143 * 365) == $52,195
Just curious...
might this gentleman be remotely similar in both content and character to those that Obama wants all of us to embrace via integrated neighborhoods?
Seems like the type of good neighbor you'd ask to water your plants and bring your mail in while out of town on holiday.
Illinois Governors champion short prison sentences because that is usually their next stay-cation
Why is this man not dead?
Easy fix: Ask the Chicago City Council to write a law for the State Legislature. Ald. Burke will be glad to legislate an end to the crisis; just think what he did for "booze and bullets."
DOC has gone to the crooks-0 inmates do what they want- parolees have to kill someone to get sent back
its going to get worse before it gets better
The South side scares me.
Now, kees me you fool!!!!
Why no Attempted Murder charge? It sure seems to meet 720 ILCS 5/8-4.
--- 'Sec. 8-4. Attempt. (a) Elements of the Offense. A person commits an attempt when, with intent to commit a specific offense, he does any act which constitutes a substantial step toward the commission of that offense.---
What am I missing? When isn't pointing a loaded gun at someone, in this case the police, a "substantial step" in killing them? Or is September, 'Be Kind To Degenerate Career Criminal Month' in Anita's office?
I Fart In Your General Direction said...
Just curious...
might this gentleman be remotely similar in both content and character to those that Obama wants all of us to embrace via integrated neighborhoods?
Seems like the type of good neighbor you'd ask to water your plants and bring your mail in while out of town on holiday.
9/09/2013 01:23:00 AM
If we had a president, he would look like that guy.
Thanks Quinn. Now lets see this upstanding citizen get everything pled down and he will walk again in a few months and maybe then he will kill someone.
$20,000/yr. or $52,195/yr. why not offer the Russians $10,00/yr. to open some old gulags again? They could serve the whole sentence, too.
the clown governor Quinn has allowed more convicted aggravated uuw prisoners out of idoc on early release than any other governor in Illinois on the basis of cost saving budget restraints
The whole thing does not make any sense at all. They send out Fugitive apprehension/US Marshal's out on a daily basis to hunt down wayward and missing paroled convicts. Only to tell the parole agents to return them home or to the program they've runaway from. To again runaway and continue the cycle of drugs, crime and violence. against citizens who watch the news nightly and expect them to be returned to prison. Duh.
Reopen tamms, joliet intake. Hows the sale of that state prison going with the feds?
The 50 Twits and Leader of this City:
"...Also on Monday, the Public Safety Committee approved Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s plan to impose stiffer fines and penalties for gun crimes committed within 100 feet of CTA buses or bus shelters, CTA or Metra trains or train stations.
It’s a companion ordinance to the mayor’s plan to create school safety zones to reassure parents whose children are forced to travel longer distances to school after nearly 50 school closings...."
Somebody open the Accounts Payable ledger in City Hall and show the taxpayers ALL the monies collected from ALL the illegal gun possessors that were arrested and consequently "fined" for their actions, under the previous handgun ordinances.
Bunch of half-wits running this City.
Parolees don't care about violating provisions of their parole because they know they can without any repercussions. They routinely violate movement with electronic monitoring, use alcohol and drugs and nothing is done to them. They know this is the case, so that's why you get this behavior.
A reporter should run with this story. Oh, wait. It would call for some investigative work and go against the leftist agenda. Never mind.
I guess you didn't get the memo. It's the new "social justice" way of crime and punishment.
Eric Holder wants to empty prisons and make the streets awash in the blood of law abiding citizens.
Eric Holder declared that levels of incarceration at federal, state and local levels had become both "ineffective and unsustainable."
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/12/eric-holder-smart-crime-reform-us-prisons
The flood gates are just about to burst.
You only charge them w/.45's 9mm's .38's etc not paper work.
Just curious...
might this gentleman be remotely similar in both content and character to those that Obama wants all of us to embrace via integrated neighborhoods?
Seems like the type of good neighbor you'd ask to water your plants and bring your mail in while out of town on holiday
It sickens me to these relocated shitbags wandering the once nice streets of our suburbs.
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