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Originally Posted by bizaro86
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.
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It did fail. The question is could it be predicted that it would fail this spectacularly? He was a risk to reoffend. What more could have been done to mitigate that risk? Keeping him locked up for life would do it but I’d prefer that only as a last resort. He made some small progress towards rehabilitation. He should have been given the proper resources to continue that.
We don’t know what brought on this killing spree. Was it a natural progression of his violent history? Maybe but I’ll wait for the facts to see for sure.