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A general consensus is that it was a deadly mix of panic, rage, and frustration that caused Lovelle Mixon to snap. His shocking murderous rampage left 4 Oakland police officers dead and a city...
...And others like him are ticking time bombs that endanger themselves and others. Oakland tragically showed that.
There are tens of thousands like him on America’s streets.In 2007, the National Institute of Justice found that 60 percent of ex-felon offenders remain unemployed a year after their release.
Don't you think he knew darn well what the consequences would be, should he come into police contact?
Of course he did! It seems as though he made a choice not to go quietly if confronted by police, knowing he would be taken straight to jail. Again.
What was Mixon's problem about not conforming to the conditions of his parole? Self-pity? Rebellion against authority?
Why couldn't he find a job? Was he lazy? Or truly discriminated against, in his attempts to gain employment?
How do we know the number of job applications he filled-out? Should records be kept of things like this?
What can be done about violent offenders, living in our communities, who think they have much less to live for, and are willing to vent their anger on innocent people?
Should they be legally required to register as 'violent offenders' similar to 'sex-offender' laws?
Should job applications be more or less restrictive about past history disclosure?
How do we take the lesson of this tragedy, and create new ways of successfully re-acclimating recently released cons back into society, in the hopes of seeing them change into productive, self-supporting citizens?
Or do we allow our own personal anger and resentment against this type of individual to further intensify an already growing trend of disdain & discrimination against cons?
Originally posted by The Godfather of Conspira
There are tens of thousands like him on America’s streets.In 2007, the National Institute of Justice found that 60 percent of ex-felon offenders remain unemployed a year after their release.
Right.
Because ex-felons make some very dependable, trustworthy and well-motivated employees for any potential employer?
So as a result of committing a crime, or more accurately being caught, one should be sent to prison to pay for that crime.
Then as further "payment", generalizing your statement, be marginalized as unreliable, untrustworthy and unmotivated and denied employment on that basis. Then what?
No job = No money = No way to maintain life in our current system. Do you really need to hold a gun to someone's head or just make them desperate?
I always thought the purpose of prison was not only as punishment but as atonement. So that when someone is released from prison they are accepted as being a potentially productive member of society, allowed to reintegrate and live a relatively normal life. I don't think that seems unreasonable.
Is it that people are just naturally born wrong? How do we solve this issue then?
Or could it be that the system is a self-perpetuating fallacy? A solution for this is much less costly to human life and dignity, I believe.
Originally posted by whatukno
reply to post by andy1033
yes all cops are murderous thugs that every night on patroll go out and start slaughtering thousands upon thousands of people in a vicious bloodbath.
RIIIIIIGGGHHT.
Police are all serial killers, and there are bound to be so many cases of murder by the police. Very sick people join the police to get there wish of murder and running vendettas.
This article is garbage:...Because ex-felons make some very dependable, trustworthy and well-motivated employees for any potential employer?...Released/Ex-Felon doesn't = "Born Again good Samaritan"...Instead of keeping them there..."reform programs",