Is Law Enforcement Stupidity Nature Or Nurture?

Parolee Convicted of Murdering Actress

By ANEMONA HARTOCOLLIS and COLIN MOYNIHAN

Published: October 12, 2006

A 20-year-old parolee was convicted today of murdering Nicole duFresne, a young actress who moved to New York from Minnesota, by shooting her point-blank in the chest on a darkened Lower East Side street after she stood up to him during a mugging, shouting, “What are you going to do, shoot us?”

The jury convicted Rudy Fleming, who was on parole for pointing a semi-automatic gun at a truancy officer, of all nine counts against him, including intentional murder, robbery and criminal possession of a weapon…. Full Story Here

OK, yep, you guessed it … Dave’s pissed again.  How long will we have to keep living with this kind of nonsense when the technology to stop it dead is not only readily at hand, but will actually save us money.

Here’s a 20 year old freak who is on parole for threatening a parole officer with a gun.  So at three o’clock in the morning he’s roaming the sidewalks accosting people on their way home from clubs.  He points his gun at a girl apparently suffering from an overload of testosterone, she mouth’s off, he pulls the trigger.  Blam!

Her life is wasted, her family’s life scarred forever.  And you know even though this guy was a little punk his life is over too … and his family hurts no less than any other to lose their child for life as a felon.

A couple days ago I wrote about an incident up in British Columbia where the police tried to excuse the fact they had let a rapist back out on the street unsupervised to rape again with the lame statement that even with a GPS we wouldn’t be able to know, necessarily that he was committing a crime.

Well here’s a thought you Einstein’s of the criminal justice system … a GPS wouldn’t have told a supervising officer that this freak was going to pull a trigger … but it damn sure would have told you that he was out prowling the streets at 0300 while you were safe at home dreaming the dreams of the just.  A couple hundred bucks.  Not only would lives have been saved, what do you think the costs to the city for the criminal investigation, the trial, any liability the city may wind up for in this tragic affair … boggles the mind.

Can’t anyone in the parole side of the justice system do the most simple ROI math?  GPS tracking of parolees does NOT cost, it would PAY