Suspects Id'd in Downtown Shooting

To see that the Criminal Justice System continues to take these types of serious crimes lightly. I can only imagine how happy the "upstanding" members of these charming young men's families feel about this latest "incident". I'm sure there will be a GoFundMe account started very soon to help these poor babies avoid jail time. Pardon me now while I vomit.

Wouldn't it be a cool thing if our Sheriff would say "enough is enough of this BS" and adopt his own policy of running the first jail in Texas styled after Sheriff Joe Arpaio in Phoenix Arizona. Tents, bologna, water and a TV that only gets the weather channel so they'll know how miserable the next day will be..... Over crowding of a facility will be unheard of because the more inmates that come in, you simply put up another 20 man tent. This would alleviate the problem of a person getting a 1 year sentence and then being released 30 days later because of over crowding, a 1 year sentence could truly be a 1 year sentence and no desire to come back for a second stay........

Obviously these scofflaws have not learned their lesson to act responsibly in our society. Therefore, they should be removed from society and spend their days and nights among their fellow criminals behind prison walls. Away from us, so no further harm can be done. After justice has been fairly administered of course.

And there lies the problem Yosemite Sam..... We have our own local thugs and yes, they need to serve time for the crimes they commit, but prison space is limited at it's best. I'm sure the 10 or 12 we have per month that are sentenced to a particular time pales in comparison to the 300-400 per month of new inmates flooding the system from each big city like Houston, Dallas, Ft. Worth, Austin, San Antonio...... We think our criminals may be bad to have in society but don't hold a candle to the REALLY bad ones from these other cities, therefore, ours go in the front door and out the back door, thus the reason for needing to take care of our own criminals and house them locally and in conditions that they won't soon want to return to a second time......

In California (were I was born) has 3 strikes, 3 felonies, life without parole. I don't know if it is still that way, but these stupid idiots should get life, because there is no rehabilitation possible here. Complete waste of human life. There should be some kind of option like Euthanasia for people who exhibit this kind of behavior.

In 1982 a couple of professors wrote an article in The Atlantic, detailing what they called "The Broken Windows Theory". The theory is the result of a study in criminology, which basically suggests that the crime rate in any given community, is in direct proportion to which it's tolerated.

The theory's name comes from the hypothetical scenario of an abandoned, neglected building with broken windows being a magnet for further vandalism, trespassing and eventually a breeding ground for future criminal acts. Apathy begets indifference, low standards are established and an eventual concentration of bottom feeders begin to come out of the woodwork.

As the respective community or neighborhood becomes overrun with criminal activity, crimes tend to go unreported, and the conditions spiral into a climate of disorder with increasing feelings of unease and vulnerability among the public.

What we're seeing above, is the result of a community rife with "broken windows". Is there any reason why anyone involved in the beating and death of another person is still walking among us? What judge saw these sorry sacks of shit for the 4th or 5th time, and found it within themselves to allow them to continue polluting our streets with their presence?

When our metaphorical windows are broken, we must repair them. It begins with the people, maintaining community standards and becoming proactive in the fight against those who'd harm it. It can start with becoming a nuisance to neighborhood thugs by reporting basic code violations, to neighborhood watch programs and finally alerting authorities when you witness criminal acts.

It's no doubt that our justice/penal system is failing us as well. President Obama recently made headlines while visiting a federal prison in Oklahoma, giving us the usual song and dance about "young people making mistakes" and the need for "second chances".

The thing is, people do not end up in a federal pen due to mistakes, and upon their arrival, they've had more than a few second chances. By the time a criminal makes it to state/federal prison, they've basically honed their ability of being a first class asshole, been in and out of city jail and have left a trail of destruction and anguish behind them. If you've managed to land yourself in prison, chances are that's where you should remain. Locking your keys in your car is a "mistake", beating someone to death is not.

Obama will never have to live among trash like this, and chances are neither will the D.A.s and judges who've dropped the ball with cases like these. It's the general public who DO have to live with them, and who will indeed become their next victims.

Serious, violent crime is the result of a very lengthy chain of lesser crimes which were dismissed as "mistakes". Our society has cultivated fertile ground for this to occur, far too often, mostly to the detriment of the innocent.

Lowering the bar, and subsequently the quality of life is not the answer. Non-violent crime, doesn't mean non-existent. Aggressively prosecuting (what many would consider) lesser crimes and tightening up sentences does indeed have it's utility. It draws the line in the sand, and sends the message of ZERO TOLERANCE for those who find it all too convenient to essentially be sent to time-out, only to reoffend within moments of their release.

We cannot repair the system overnight, but we CAN begin by repairing our broken windows.