Because doing so is racist, per the prosecutor. So what good are they then?
WKAR: Ingham County Prosecutor Pledges To Dial Back Use Of Mandatory Minimum Gun Charge
The woke prosecutor, Carol Siemon, is against charging criminals with the possessing a firearm in the commission of a felony charge under Michigan law.
That charge carries a 2-year prison sentence and thus gets felons out of circulation for awhile. She's opposed to it because it turns out that a lot of felons carrying firearms and committing felonies in her county happen to be Black.
Black people make up 12% of Ingham County’s population, but they accounted for 67% of those charged with felony firearm possession in the county last year, according to a news release from the prosecutor's office.
Given that FBI statistics show Blacks at 13% of the national population commit 50% of the murders in America and 45% of all violent crime in general (with most of the murder victims being Black) the statistics seem to concord quite well with the existence in her county of a very active felon subclass of the Black population.
The prosecutor went to to say that punishment doesn't work so why bother. Well she actually said that:
"We've learned, of course, that deterrence is not a very strong motivator, unfortunately."
Siemon says the penalty hasn't made the public safer since prosecutors can add the charge even if the gun was legally owned or if the gun wasn't used in the underlying felony for which someone was arrested. Instead, she says, the charge is a major driver of racial disparities in incarceration.
Putting felons in jail for felony firearm possession would result in keeping them off the street and not commititng cirmes, incuding crimes agaisnt racial minorities, but that is insufficiently woke.
Of course, she reserves the right to bring such a charge against the right kind of people:
Although Siemon can't stop police from arresting people for firearm possession, she says her office will be more limited in approving the charge.
Any use of the charge will need to be OK'd by Siemon herself or the county's chief assistant prosecutor, according to a new policy announced Tuesday.
Siemon says she'll limit approval of the charge to "extreme circumstances,"
A little anarcho-tyrrany there, where criminal felons of the right skin color will go uncharged, and one can expect that those non-felons of a different color using a firearm to defend themselves may get hit with this charge.
In other woke news, she also refuses to charge criminals caught with drugs or firearms during traffic stops with any crimes.
This isn't just being soft on crime. This is giving criminals a complete pass when caught with illegal items as long as it's during a traffic stop, which is the best time to actually stop them, before they're a the scene of their next crime.
Expect crime in Ingham County to start tracking upwards as criminals take note of the new hands-off approach to crime in the name of wokeness.
4 comments:
I no longer identify as of the white race. I am part of the most miniscule minority on earth, so miniscule and so obscure that there is no descriptive term in general use.
It is racist to apply any laws to me that are not applied to any other minority in the world.
Unbelievable!!! Are these people for real? Do they NOT understand the law they are supposed to be upholding?
Why does this not surprise me? Is there any way that a white person who is charged with the same crime able to plead discrimination due to being charged with a crime that a different race would have let him or her slide?
This policy is most definitely racist, and one wonders if a judge would not slap down the prosecutor who actually brings a white defendant before him or her with this charge.
So you've got a racist prosecutor; she uses race as a criteria for whether or not to prosecute certain laws. And she said so in her out-loud voice.
That would seem to be grounds to report her for misconduct and possibly disbarment.
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