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Libertarian Candidate for the Massachusetts House of Representatives Ninth Hampden District |
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Robert Underwood |
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Crime
The Republicrat ( Democrat and Republican ) crime program is a farcical diversion for the people.
People demand that serious offenders be locked up, and they get drug and prostitution arrests.
Cops and Probation officers indirectly make their living off prostitutes. Cops get paid for arresting them. Judges and court personnel get paid for trying them. And then probation officers collect “probation fees” or the prostitutes and drug users go back to jail. These are usually safe arrests because the “criminals” are relatively non-violent. There are no federal or state grants for arresting real criminals, so the crime wave continues at the hands of the Republicrats.
I would vote to abolish the practice of plea bargaining. Judges and Prosecutors like it because it cuts down on their work load. Serious offenders like it because the end up with a lesser sentence. But an innocent person can be hurt by plea bargaining. Defendants are kept isolated. They are threatened with waiting a long time for trial if they do not plea bargain. The tax payers also pay to keep innocent people incarcerated. The tax payers pay the lawyers involved in the case, court personnel etc. Getting a wrongful conviction encourages more of the same.
Plea bargaining is used to finance parts of the patronage system, such as the county jails and the probation department.
I, and other Libertarians, would abolish victimless crime laws and eliminate the legalized stealing on the part of Republicrat cops, courts, and probation officers.
I would abolish plea bargaining. If the accusations are justified then let the process more closely resemble the process described in the constitution, an open trial, so we can all see how brilliant the cops and prosecutors are. It would also mean that if someone was guilty of a serious offense, they would be convicted of that offense, instead of a lesser offence.
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Vote Libertarian, Vote Underwood |
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