Your comment suggests you count Mr. Hayden among their number, but I saw nothing in the story to suggest that. And I wrote it, so I had a good look at it.
The system is flawed. Too many are released on conditions and continue on a criminal path with no respect for laws. Crime is rampant in this city and everywhere and getting worse every day. You of all people surely must see it and the lack of consequences for those who participate in criminal activity of any kind.
It's definitely an important public-policy debate to have. But maybe starting it as a comment on a story about one man facing firearms charges - none of which involved the alleged firing of such a weapon - isn't the place to have it, as one makes it appear this particular defendant ought to be remanded pending the outcome of his case without having any evidentiary foundation to make such an assertion.
Do I think crime is worse today than a decade or two ago? I don't know for sure, but I'm inclined to think it's not markedly worse. Today, it's crystal meth. Years ago, it was Dilaudid - needle robberies were more common. It might appear there's more crime, but that could be because there are more police officers, better methods. That's certainly the case with child-pornography crime and luring. We see more sex-assault charges, but that's likely more attributable to shifting attitudes among police, victims and the general public, not a greater inclination toward sexual violence or deviance in society. We see more prosecutions for impaired driving, but society's tolerance for such offences has shrunk over the years, and the tools and methods used to detect such offences have improved.
Just because things LOOK worse doesn't necessarily mean they are worse.
Was this one "catch and release" also?
So every person charged with a crime must be remanded? Where do you draw the line?
Draw the line with the ones who go right back out and resume their criminal activity.
Your comment suggests you count Mr. Hayden among their number, but I saw nothing in the story to suggest that. And I wrote it, so I had a good look at it.
The system is flawed. Too many are released on conditions and continue on a criminal path with no respect for laws. Crime is rampant in this city and everywhere and getting worse every day. You of all people surely must see it and the lack of consequences for those who participate in criminal activity of any kind.
It's definitely an important public-policy debate to have. But maybe starting it as a comment on a story about one man facing firearms charges - none of which involved the alleged firing of such a weapon - isn't the place to have it, as one makes it appear this particular defendant ought to be remanded pending the outcome of his case without having any evidentiary foundation to make such an assertion.
Do I think crime is worse today than a decade or two ago? I don't know for sure, but I'm inclined to think it's not markedly worse. Today, it's crystal meth. Years ago, it was Dilaudid - needle robberies were more common. It might appear there's more crime, but that could be because there are more police officers, better methods. That's certainly the case with child-pornography crime and luring. We see more sex-assault charges, but that's likely more attributable to shifting attitudes among police, victims and the general public, not a greater inclination toward sexual violence or deviance in society. We see more prosecutions for impaired driving, but society's tolerance for such offences has shrunk over the years, and the tools and methods used to detect such offences have improved.
Just because things LOOK worse doesn't necessarily mean they are worse.