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Danke
04-23-2009, 10:58 AM
California County Too Broke to Enforce Laws - Gives Up.
April 23rd

Misdemeanors such as assaults, thefts and burglaries will no longer be prosecuted in Contra Costa County because of budget cuts, the county's top prosecutor said Tuesday.

District Attorney Robert Kochly also said that beginning May 4, his office will no longer prosecute felony drug cases involving smaller amounts of narcotics. That means anyone caught with less than a gram of methamphetamine or cocaine, less than 0.5 grams of heroin and fewer than five pills of ecstasy, OxyContin or Vicodin won't be charged.

People who are suspected of misdemeanor drug crimes, break minor traffic laws, shoplift, trespass or commit misdemeanor vandalism will also be in the clear. Those crimes won't be prosecuted, either.

"We had to make very, very difficult choices, and we had to try to prioritize things. There are no good choices to be made here," said Kochly, a 35-year veteran prosecutor. "It's trying to choose the lesser of certain evils in deciding what we can and cannot do."




http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/04/21/BAK9176EGO.DTL&tsp=1

BuddyRey
04-23-2009, 11:02 AM
Then I don't suppose County Prosecutors will be able to punish illegal...er um..."undocumented" guns either, right? Since those will be the only means citizens will now have of defending themselves in California's notoriously anti-2nd Amendment criminocracy?

JdotRdot
04-23-2009, 01:40 PM
lmao wild wild west

HOLLYWOOD
04-23-2009, 01:45 PM
Hah! Contra Costa County will be voting themselves a 10% pay increase and 5% COLA. they will also be increaseing the PENSION and medical benefits.

The county will then declare municipality bankruptcy and will be receiving $1 Billion from Washington DC (Pelosi/FeinStein/Woosley) socialist Canada.

Fr3shjive
04-23-2009, 01:49 PM
Ridiculous. What are they wasting their money on when they dont have enough money to pay police, teachers and public services;ie water, gas and electricity. That should be their first priority, everything else is secondary.

gls
04-24-2009, 11:49 AM
Are people entitled to a portion of their property taxes back? A government that doesn't bother to prosescute "assaults, thefts and burglaries" isn't exactly living up to its end of the bargain.

Mesogen
04-24-2009, 12:06 PM
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124027127337237011.html

jclay2
04-24-2009, 12:09 PM
lmao wild wild west

Did you mean this?

YouTube - Wild Wild West - Will Smith (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_a-HZbxmCE&feature=related)

PatriotLegion
04-24-2009, 12:58 PM
Did you mean this?

YouTube - Wild Wild West - Will Smith (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_a-HZbxmCE&feature=related)

Terrible movie!!!

LOL! :D

kathy88
04-24-2009, 01:32 PM
"Oakland -- facing a record $80 million budget shortfall -- spends about 65% of its budget for police and fire services, including about $250,000 annually, including benefits and salary, on each police officer."

1/4 million EACH for COPS? You have GOT to be kidding me. They deserve to go broke and have criminals running rampant. Right up the court house steps.

DamianTV
04-24-2009, 03:21 PM
What else this means? Go stimulate the economy by purchasing a radar detector, if you dont have one already. Get a cheap one because it will probably get ripped off. Why the big deal about radar detectors? Because cops are going to be giving out a lot more speeding tickets to try to make up for the revenue shortfall.

LibForestPaul
04-24-2009, 09:07 PM
"Oakland -- facing a record $80 million budget shortfall -- spends about 65% of its budget for police and fire services, including about $250,000 annually, including benefits and salary, on each police officer."

1/4 million EACH for COPS? You have GOT to be kidding me. They deserve to go broke and have criminals running rampant. Right up the court house steps.

I wonder if it is $250k because of the guaranteed pension? i.e. Pension value goes down, pension payments are guaranteed, so difference must be funded by taxpayer.

RevolutionSD
04-24-2009, 10:39 PM
"Oakland -- facing a record $80 million budget shortfall -- spends about 65% of its budget for police and fire services, including about $250,000 annually, including benefits and salary, on each police officer."

1/4 million EACH for COPS? You have GOT to be kidding me. They deserve to go broke and have criminals running rampant. Right up the court house steps.

Trust me, the community would be safer WITHOUT the cops, especially in oakland where the cops are WAY out of control.