Philadelphia - Large Crowds of people have started a riot and loot multiple stores

[IGotWorms 4,057]

3 minutes ago, Voltaire said:

The power of the prosecutor: The basics  | ACLU of Washington (aclu-wa.org)

What a prosecutor does as per the ACLU, a source the left trusts and a weakness in the system that George Soros figured out how to exploit.

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The power of the prosecutor: The basics 

 

ACLU of Washington

Published: 

Thursday, July 28, 2022

Prosecutors are among some of the most powerful yet least understood actors in the criminal legal system – and some of the most difficult to hold accountable. Prosecutors’ choices play a huge role in people’s lives, but many do not understand the enormous power this office has. Prosecutors can determine which laws are enforced and against whom, and how much punishment to recommend. The decisions made by prosecutors are a leading cause of mass incarceration. Prosecutors' offices require greater public transparency. Active and informed voters have the power to hold prosecutors accountable. 
 

Local elections like prosecutor races have an enormous impact on our criminal legal system and the way our government treats the people it serves. It is important for voters to understand that electing reform-minded prosecutors will help end mass incarceration and create a more equitable justice system. Prosecutorial reform will help end the harms caused by mass incarceration, repairing damage to local communities and protecting people from further harms caused by the criminal legal system.  
 

Below you can find information about the role and power of the prosecutor as well as additional resources. 

 

Who is the prosecutor? 

• The prosecutor is an elected position responsible for bringing all criminal charges for alleged conduct in their jurisdiction. In other states, prosecutors are called district attorneys. 
• City attorneys are also responsible for some charging decisions. Seattle is the only city in Washington where city attorneys are elected. The Seattle city attorney has authority over misdemeanor offenses filed in Seattle’s municipal court.  
• Every county in Washington has an elected prosecutor. County prosecutors have authority over felonies and misdemeanors filed in superior and district courts. 
• They have the authority to decide almost everything after a police investigation has been turned over. This includes whom to charge, how many people to charge, whether to charge a felony or misdemeanor and so forth.  
• The only check on this power is elections every four years. About 70% of prosecutors run unopposed and incumbents almost always win reelection.  

---> A prosecutor is one of the most powerful local elected officials.  

 

What does the prosecutor do? 

• The prosecutor has broad discretion over who is incarcerated, for how long and who goes free. 
• No one else in the system has more opportunities at every step, from just after arrest to sentencing, to impact people’s lives.  
• They have the power to charge – or not. They have the power to divert people from incarceration – or not. They have the power to offer a plea bargain – or not.  
• Charging decisions and plea bargain offers are made at the sole discretion of prosecutors. Some prosecutors seek a longer sentence if a defendant takes a case to trial instead of pleading guilty. 
• This can result in people being afraid to go to trial and risk a longer sentence. People may plead guilty to a crime they did not commit to avoid the risk. 
• Many prosecutors use practices that punish poor people who cannot pay bonds, legal fines and fees, and private consumer debt. 

---> About 95% of defendants plead guilty.  
 

What are some of the goals of prosecutorial reform? 

We cannot achieve deep and long-lasting reductions to the U.S. jail and prison populations without major transformations to the practices of elected prosecutors. The decisions of prosecutors are a major driver of mass incarceration and increase racial disparities in the justice system. Prosecutorial reform means changing the incentives that drive prosecutors, such as: 

• Electing prosecutors who commit to reducing incarceration and increasing alternatives that are more effective at preventing future crime and improving community health and stability.  
• Supporting practices that proactively address racial disparities in the criminal legal system.  

It also means holding prosecutors accountable in ways they have not been before when they seek convictions at any cost or stand in the way of growing public demand to overhaul the criminal legal system. A transformed prosecutorial system must be fully transparent and accountable. 

You think one elected guy charges and tries every single crime in the city or county?

[Hardcore troubadour 14,915]

George Soros purchased the ACLU a while ago. It’s his now. 

[Voltaire 5,181]

4 hours ago, IGotWorms said:

You think one elected guy charged and tries every single crime in the city or county?

Reeding Werds R hard 4 dum loyers.

Y duz voting 4 prezidunt mater, dum loyer? Is jus 1 gai.

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Local elections like prosecutor races have an enormous impact on our criminal legal system and the way our government treats the people it serves. It is important for voters to understand that electing reform-minded prosecutors will help end mass incarceration and create a more equitable justice system. Prosecutorial reform will help end the harms caused by mass incarceration, repairing damage to local communities and protecting people from further harms caused by the criminal legal system.

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 A prosecutor is one of the most powerful local elected officials.  

Soros & ACLU iz smart, werms iz dum.

[IGotWorms 4,057]

20 minutes ago, Voltaire said:

Reeding Werds R hard 4 dum loyers.

Y duz voting 4 prezidunt mater, dum loyer? Is jus 1 gai.

Soros & ACLU iz smart, werms iz dum.

They set policy and so yes, they have an impact. Enormous is likely overselling it. Prosecutors’ offices are generally filled with career types (at least for major crimes) who generally don’t change a lot from administration to administration. They might have to give lip service to this or emphasize that based on who is in office, but the gears turn mostly the same.

Where do I send the bill for your lesson?  

[Hardcore troubadour 14,915]

Just now, IGotWorms said:

They set policy and so yes, they have an impact. Enormous is likely overselling it. Prosecutors’ offices are generally filled with career types (at least for major crimes) who generally don’t change a lot from administration to administration. They might have to give lip service to this or emphasize that based on who is in office, but the gears turn mostly the same.

Where do I send the bill for your lesson?  

Lots of DA’s have instituted policy in their office that they won’t be prosecuting certain crimes. I’m sorry you’re not aware of that but it’s true. 

[Voltaire 5,181]

4 hours ago, IGotWorms said:

They set policy and so yes, they have an impact. Enormous is likely overselling it. Prosecutors’ offices are generally filled with career types (at least for major crimes) who generally don’t change a lot from administration to administration. They might have to give lip service to this or emphasize that based on who is in office, but the gears turn mostly the same.

Where do I send the bill for your lesson?  

That's essentially the problem President Trump had with "The Swamp" or "Deep State" except at a local level. As for elected prosecutors, surveying the damage that they've wrought to their communities, I think that these elected prosecutors have more discretion over their staffs (staves?)  than you give them credit for.

[Patented Phil 1,469]

14 hours ago, Mike Hunt said:

 

Philly is a sewer and has been for years.  SF used to be such a beautiful city and that is ruined to the point it will never recover to what it was.  Seattle and Chicago are going down the tubes fast.  

LA and NY are now just crime ridden big areas. So sad to see all the business leaving and vibrant areas destroyed.

Add to that DC, Baltimore, and Portland.  All LeftTard shittholes.  Honestly, I don’t miss any of them.

[jonnyutah 248]

2 hours ago, GutterBoy said:

It's not racist to say we need to keep the black population to a much lower percentage than whites, but blacks take white jobs, OH THATS RACIST!

Never change you disgusting people of GC.

Focking garbage humans.

They keep it lower on their own. 

[Voltaire 5,181]

On 9/27/2023 at 10:13 AM, IGotWorms said:

 

Seattle - true. Do you even live there though? So quit your focking whining.

 

Memories. God I loved CHAZ.

You know, I had a lot of free time to spend online during the "Summer of Love." It was fascinating watching the most degenerate, disgusting, sh*t human beings in the country: the criminally inclined gangstas, together with their allies, the pink haired, nose-ringed LGBTQ freaks, and the environmental wackos, get together in Seattle to overthrow a police precinct and give birth to a new nation, a homeless encampment conceived on a whim, and dedicated to the proposition that all cops are bastards.

My God, what a moment in time. I was hooked watching the reality TV freakshow unfold on camera in real time. And then there was the comical response of the inept establishment left local government. This happened with the acquiescence/support of the establishment mainstream liberal Democrat Seattle mayor's office. CHAZ was a real life social studies in which the scum leftoid trash cretins of society got together and volunteered to be lab rats before the cameras to the amusement of the whole world. Watching these leftoid circus freaks livestream the founding of their new country in the middle of Seattle was delicious. Drugged up zombies wandering through a vacated police station that smelled like piss and mugging each other, you see what kind of society these fruitcakes want to live in. Where else can you see a gay ninja guy dancing in the middle of a makeshift cardboard DEI garden? 

CHAZ was so much fun and such great memories.  DonS gave us the local scoop for FFToday, while online Steven Crowder was in full glory, offering up off-the-charts hilarious commentary and highlight footage. In his best prank, Crowder discovered that the self-proclaimed warlord of CHAZ is this rich rapper with apartments for rent off of AirBNB and so Crowder rents one and passes out fliers to a bunch of homeless CHAZ degenerates to come over for a party at "New CHAZ." It was fascinating the whole time seeing how far Garrett could get away with, bravely pushing the envelope by triggering the CHAZ scumballs in interviews and actions, without getting his ass beat.

CHAZ offered two weeks or so of comedy so intense my sides hurt until too many people started dying and the dipsh*t "adults" in the mayors office had to send the police back in. 

I miss CHAZ, that was great. Best communist country ever.

[Alias Detective 1,389]

13 hours ago, IGotWorms said:

They set policy and so yes, they have an impact. Enormous is likely overselling it. Prosecutors’ offices are generally filled with career types (at least for major crimes) who generally don’t change a lot from administration to administration. They might have to give lip service to this or emphasize that based on who is in office, but the gears turn mostly the same.

Where do I send the bill for your lesson?  

Bwahahahahahahahahah

[iam90sbaby 2,472]

16 hours ago, jonmx said:

You know it is the left authoritarian bastards who are limiting the black population through the destruction of the family and through drive by abortions.  

And?

[jonmx 2,424]

4 hours ago, iam90sbaby said:

And?

You are the ones who do what you accuse conservatives of.  

[iam90sbaby 2,472]

2 minutes ago, jonmx said:

You are the ones who do what you accuse conservatives of.  

Sure, if you want every city to look like Baltimore 

[Pimpadeaux 2,404]

Our cities are burning.

[RogerDodger 797]

 

[Hardcore troubadour 14,915]

Lots of meatballs in Fishtown.  But nowhere to get a steak.  Lol. 

[MDC 7,120]

Lots of good restaurants though. Tardcore should stop by next time he has to Lyft some kids to the Sixer game.  

[RogerDodger 797]

They thought they could just charge'em up and start using them.  

 

 

[HellToupee 1,583]

Looks like it’s something from a Mad Max prequel 

 

[Alias Detective 1,389]

2 hours ago, HellToupee said:

Looks like it’s something from a Mad Max prequel 

 

Kill em.

[Cdub100 3,825]

Diversity is our strength. 

 

[Hardcore troubadour 14,915]

21 minutes ago, Cdub100 said:

Diversity is our strength. 

 

I would never have my children in the presence of that animal.  

[Blue Horseshoe 348]

On 10/3/2023 at 7:48 AM, Alias Detective said:

Kill em.

 

 

My take is buy a gun. And for folks to try to avoid certain areas and going out at night. Even though that won't save them. And some people have their work situations and stuff with their kids where they can't effectively do that. 

Basically apply "defensive driving" concepts to all aspects of public life. It's not fair, that people have to do that, but you have to try to increase your odds. 

You'll notice Team Blue, the DNC and the activist left leaning MSM have basically stopped the "gun debate" in this country. They literally sacrificed their gun agenda for how long for the current slate of identity politics. They can no longer ask people to stop buying guns and give up their guns. Americans have never bought firearms at the rate they have the past four years. 

How much of a failure does Team Blue need to be to have many hard line former anti-gun advocates basically give in and start buying a mass of firearms and ammunition to try to preserve what's left of the safety and security of their children and homes. 

In ancient Rome, the organized street gangs, the major ones, were essentially ad hoc law enforcement. Certainly there was crime and vices, but the general rule was not to punish working class people just trying to make a living. And that's the thing, when civil order falls in any society, a "surrogate" system always emerges. High level and highly trained criminal organizations will just start killing people. They'll kill the low level street thugs and looters. Eventually it's a new business opportunity for them. 

That's the thing no one wants to talk about. It's like they say in Jurassic Park - There's always a bigger fish. 

I see absolutely zero incentive to NOT have a gun in modern American society today. I'd say, at this point, it's actually a failure of duty, especially if you have kids, to decide to not get a legal firearm at this point. Basic civil order is collapsing and the average working class American has been abandoned. You are on your own. We are on our own here. No one is coming to save us. 

In the end, you'll get what you want. And I don't blame you for feeling that way. I do however feel that good honest working class people have to try to strategize now to pick their spots as best they can. You can't stop this tide, but you can try to squeeze the odds a little better in your favor. 

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8 hours ago, Blue Horseshoe said:

 

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My take is buy a gun. And for folks to try to avoid certain areas and going out at night. Even though that won't save them. And some people have their work situations and stuff with their kids where they can't effectively do that. 

Basically apply "defensive driving" concepts to all aspects of public life. It's not fair, that people have to do that, but you have to try to increase your odds. 

You'll notice Team Blue, the DNC and the activist left leaning MSM have basically stopped the "gun debate" in this country. They literally sacrificed their gun agenda for how long for the current slate of identity politics. They can no longer ask people to stop buying guns and give up their guns. Americans have never bought firearms at the rate they have the past four years. 

How much of a failure does Team Blue need to be to have many hard line former anti-gun advocates basically give in and start buying a mass of firearms and ammunition to try to preserve what's left of the safety and security of their children and homes. 

In ancient Rome, the organized street gangs, the major ones, were essentially ad hoc law enforcement. Certainly there was crime and vices, but the general rule was not to punish working class people just trying to make a living. And that's the thing, when civil order falls in any society, a "surrogate" system always emerges. High level and highly trained criminal organizations will just start killing people. They'll kill the low level street thugs and looters. Eventually it's a new business opportunity for them. 

That's the thing no one wants to talk about. It's like they say in Jurassic Park - There's always a bigger fish. 

I see absolutely zero incentive to NOT have a gun in modern American society today. I'd say, at this point, it's actually a failure of duty, especially if you have kids, to decide to not get a legal firearm at this point. Basic civil order is collapsing and the average working class American has been abandoned. You are on your own. We are on our own here. No one is coming to save us. 

In the end, you'll get what you want. And I don't blame you for feeling that way. I do however feel that good honest working class people have to try to strategize now to pick their spots as best they can. You can't stop this tide, but you can try to squeeze the odds a little better in your favor. 

 

You're really a sad, scared sheep.  Millions upon millions of people visit cities every single day with no incent.  You alt right scaredy cats take the very few occurrences of violence and try to apply that widely.  That may work with scared, sheep conservatives but the rest of us regular people know better.

You may as well post up pics of folks getting struck by lightning and warning people not to walk around outside since you'll likely get struck by lightning.

You spread nothing but lies and fear.   I'd think you could find better uses of your time friend. 

[Cdub100 3,825]

I just can't figure out why black communities can't score even below average on state/national scores.

Diversity is our strength. 

[seafoam1 2,799]

36 minutes ago, Cdub100 said:

I just can't figure out why black communities can't score even below average on state/national scores.

Diversity is our strength. 

This makes a strong argument for abortion...the abortion of the parents of these kids. 

[Maximum Overkill 1,739]

On 9/26/2023 at 11:01 PM, MDC said:

Bust them all and throw the book at them.

Was that you in the rainbow onesie?  

 

 

[EternalShinyAndChrome 3,828]

2 minutes ago, Maximum Overkill said:

Was that you in the rainbow onesie?  

 

 

All liberals and Democrats.

[Maximum Overkill 1,739]

4 minutes ago, EternalShinyAndChrome said:

All liberals and Democrats.

And did you know that SuperWoke Liberal MDC resides in beautiful Fishtown Philadelphia? The crackhead and tranny capital of the East Coast. 

[MDC 7,120]

35 minutes ago, Maximum Overkill said:

Was that you in the rainbow onesie?  

 

 

MDCDS  

[avoiding injuries 1,505]

“Black exhaustion” is trending

[seafoam1 2,799]

39 minutes ago, MDC said:

MDCDS  

No. You're just an idiot who's easy to make fun of. But you keep trying corky. 

[jonnyutah 248]

Zero crimes reported to the FBI.

[squistion 1,944]

9 hours ago, avoiding injuries said:

“Black exhaustion” is trending

Maybe on Truth Social, but not on Twitter or X (Only one post since September 19).

https://x.com/search?q=“Black exhaustion”&src=typed_query&f=live

[Maximum Overkill 1,739]

On 9/29/2023 at 11:02 AM, MDC said:

Lots of good restaurants though. Tardcore should stop by next time he has to Lyft some kids to the Sixer game.  

It's a cesspool. You're only in Fishtown because you can't afford to get out  

[MDC 7,120]

MDCDS  

[Maximum Overkill 1,739]

Just now, MDC said:

MDCDS  

I'm sure it's everyone's ambition to raise a Family in Fishtown  

[seafoam1 2,799]

36 minutes ago, Maximum Overkill said:

I'm sure it's everyone's ambition to raise a Family in Fishtown  

It's a disgusting place. 

[Maximum Overkill 1,739]

5 hours ago, seafoam1 said:

It's a disgusting place. 

LIBERALS love raising their family in filth. 

[seafoam1 2,799]

7 minutes ago, Maximum Overkill said:

LIBERALS love raising their family in filth. 

Truth. It's why they want communism.