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Originally Posted by Derek Sutton
I have not made anything up, and I understand that charges can stem from some pretty innocent transgressions. However your implication that robbery is a "crime of peace" is complete garbage.
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Indeed. These are the details of his last robbery conviction from the parole documents. "threatened an accomplice, hitting him in the head with a firearm and stomping on his head. He then made the accomplice rob a fast food restaurant with a firearm, his parole records indicate."
Hard to believe this guy immediately broke his parole and then continued committing violent crime.
If he had 59 convictions for petty theft that'd be different, but there are enough robbery/assault/firearms charges in there that the pattern of behaviour is pretty strong.
Nobody is scapegoating the justice system here - it objectively failed. So then the question becomes why did it fail and how do we stop this from happening again.
Because personally I care more about the feelings of the families of those victims than I do about whether the parole board employees feel bad - and that position is pretty defensible, imo.