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Re: No age requirement in Georgia to have a gun, HOW did he get that gun into school? GEORGIA IS A SH**HOLE! 

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Re: “As terrible as these actions are, how can they justify charging a 14 year old as an adult?”
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I'll let the following article answer your question. But I think it's only fair that I get to ask YOU one as well: Why are liberals so incredibly bad at figuring out things like this for themselves??

October 13, 2024

Gascon gave teen killer a second chance. Now she’s charged again, for her third murder

by LU Staff
LibertyUnyielding.com


Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascon — who is sympathetic toward criminals — refused to prosecute a 17-year-old murderer who had killed two people as an adult. As a result, she was released in February 2023, and went on to kill again.

The Los Angeles Times reports:

The crime Shanice Amanda Dyer committed as a 17-year-old was as horrific as it was seemingly random. She was a documented member of a Crips street gang faction in South L.A…..The targets the gang chose at random were an expectant father, Alfredo Carrera, and his close friend Jose Antonio Flores Vasquez, an aspiring astrophysicist in UC Irvine’s doctorate program who was visiting Carrera to drop off a baby gift. A car pulled up, with Dyer inside. After a brief argument, authorities said, Dyer and two other defendants unleashed a volley of gunfire, killing both men. A third man down the street was wounded in the back as he loaded his 1-year-old daughter into a car seat. Dyer sent text messages taking responsibility for the shooting, saying she was “satisfied” it made headlines,..

Dyer was tried as a juvenile under Los Angeles County Dist. Atty. George Gascón, who at the time had a strict policy against prosecuting teens as adults. She admitted to the murder charges in 2021, and probation records reviewed by The Times show she was released last February. Six months later, she was arrested in connection with another homicide, this one in Pomona.

Dyer’s case is one of several in which a defendant to whom Gascón showed leniency has been released only to be accused of another violent crime. Now, with the incumbent district attorney taking heat for progressive policies from his challenger in November’s election, the question of how to handle the most violent of juvenile offenders has become a key issue.

In the recent case, prosecutors allege that in June she lured Joshua Streeter, 21, to a Pomona strip mall where he was shot dead…Dyer, now 22, is again charged with murder….When Gascón took office in 2020, he barred prosecutors from charging juveniles as adults under any circumstances….Shawn Randolph, the district attorney’s former top juvenile prosecutor, called the latest alleged killing by Dyer “predictable and preventable.” On Gascón’s initial ban on pursuing adult charges, Randolph said: “He ordered that juveniles that had demonstrated a propensity to kill would be released well before their brains had finished developing, unleashing them on a vulnerable public to kill again.”
Gascon also allows some adults who try to kill people to avoid prison, enabling them to commit murder. A father in Los Angeles was stabbed to death by a woman with a long and violent history, who was allowed to remain free by district attorney George Gascon. She had a history of attacking people with knives, but always avoided prison because Gascon’s office either released her or placed her in diversion programs instead.

Jade Simone Brookfield was charged with attempted murder in 2020 for stabbing a woman in the chest and puncturing her lung. Gascon’s office then reduced her charges to assault with a deadly weapon, and put her into a mental health diversion program instead of prosecuting her. She absconded and was removed from the program, yet was allowed to return to it. In 2021, Brookfield was arrested twice more. First, she was arrested for committing battery against a cop. She received mental health diversion for that, too, and the prosecution against her was dismissed. Then, she was arrested for criminal threats after she allegedly assaulted a man, pulled out two knives, and threatened to kill him. Gascon’s office refused to prosecute the case.

In March 2023, while still on diversion for her first knife attack, she was arrested once again for felony assault with a deadly weapon after she repeatedly tried to knife a bus driver who missed her stop. Gascon’s office permitted her to be released from custody with an ankle monitor.

In April 2023, she was arrested for murder, after she fatally stabbed Dennis Banner after arguing with him on the street. This is yet another example of what happens due to Gascon’s soft-on-crime practice of using diversion whenever it is arguably permitted by law.

Earlier, Gascon allowed the release of a gang murder who then murdered two police officers.

Gascon is facing a stiff reelection race against Nathan Hochman, a former federal prosecutor, U.S. Assistant Attorney General, and Los Angeles Ethics Commission President. Hochman has raised concerns about the fact that crime has risen in Los Angeles County in recent years, due to Gascon’s soft-on-crime policies, even as it has fallen in other jurisdictions that are tougher on crime.

If Hochman wins, he will seek to try dangerous killers in adult court, rather than juvenile court, so that those killers serve a significant prison sentence, rather than being quickly released after spending a couple years in a juvenile institution. If criminals are held longer, they are more likely to age out of crime, and less likely to kill people again upon being released.

In some cases, Hochman will likely succeed, keeping dangerous killers in jail. In some other cases, though, California state judges will let killers avoid being tried as adults. As the Los Angeles Times notes, California state law has become softer on juvenile criminals, and only the worst juvenile criminals can be tried in adult court: “Charging juveniles as adults requires judicial approval, and the bar tends to be high. Two-thirds of attempts to transfer teens to adult court failed last year, according to a report published by the California attorney general’s office.”

Gascon thinks juvenile killers don’t need more than a few years in juvenile detention. But such lenient penalties aren’t enough to deter crime or prevent recidivism. 17-year-olds who commit premeditated murder need to do serious time in prison. A study notes that most juvenile killers are arrested again after being released, and rates of reoffending are higher for those killers who “served shorter sentences.” As criminology professor Peter Moskos notes, “Recidivism among 16-year-olds went up” when the age for being prosecuted in adult court was raised in New York, resulting in violent criminals facing only a short stint in juvenile detention, rather than a prison sentence.

Juvenile killers typically go on to commit violent crimes after being released. An advocacy group notes that “A 2015 study…found that 90% of juvenile killers and attempted killers who were released were re-arrested. Over 60% were re-arrested for violent crimes.”
Some juveniles are repeat offenders who commit violent crimes over and over again. Those repeat violent offenders need a prison sentence, not a short stint in juvenile detention. A study found that when California imposed longer sentences for repeat offenders, that deterred many violent crimes from being committd. Yet, Gascón issuing a directive banning prosecutors in Los Angeles County from seeking the longer sentences for repeat offenders approved by California voters in Proposition 8. That ballot initiative increased penalties for repeat offenders who commit willful homicide, forcible rape, robbery, and aggravated assault with a firearm.

Gascon’s desire to keep sentences as short a possible is in conflict with public safety, because when inmates are released after just a short time in jail, they go on to commit more crimes. For example, a study found that reducing incarceration increased the crime rate; it was published in the American Economic Review.

Holding inmates in jail longer results in some of them aging of out crime and others no longer committing the most serious crimes. Older inmates commit fewer crimes after being released, and tend to commit less serious crimes, than inmates released at a younger age. According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, 81.9% of all state prisoners released in 2008 were subsequently arrested by 2018, but only 74.5% of those 40 or older at the time of their release, only 56.1% of those age 55 at the time of their release, and only 40.1% of those over age 65 at the time of their release. (See Bureau of Justice Statistics, Recidivism of Prisoners in 24 States Released in 2008: A 10-Year Follow-Up Period (2008-2018 ) (Sept. 2021), pg. 4, Table 4).

http://libertyunyielding.com/2024/10/13/gascon-gave-teen-killer-second-chance-now-shes-charged-again-for-another-murder/

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