February 17th 2019 Newsletter
Soft on Crime Agenda Leads to
a Gut Shot Cop and Dead Criminal
The shooting last week in Del City left two wounded cops and one dead criminal. The man was being held for shoplifting a small hand tool by a security guard who was assisted by an off duty Amber police officer. When a Del City officer showed up the criminal produced a pistol and blasted two of the three officers before being fatally shot. One would wonder, why would someone choose to pull a gun and face death or prison or a life on the run were they to survive, over a shoplifting misdemeanor that wouldn't likely even result in an arrest?
Meet 25 year old Gabriel Lane Carter, a criminal on a fast track with destiny, aided by liberal judges and liberal activists.
His first adult arrest was in August of 2016 when he was twenty two years old. Possession of morphine. He pleaded guilty after gaming the system for a few months, was given a deferred sentence and around $1900.00 in fines and fees. By January of 2017 the court had received one payment of $25.00 and a petition to accelerate the deferred sentence was filed to motivate Carter to pay up. But he didn't pay another dime, leading to an arrest warrant in June of 2018. Without a bondsman looking for him, on the hook for the bail should he not appear in court, Carter roamed free till his arrest in January of 2019 on other charges.
In January of 2017 Carter was arrested on second degree burglary and concealing stolen property. Carter pleads innocent, bond is set at $5000, he pays a bondsman to get him out on bail, plays the system till December of 2017 when he fails to appear at a hearing due to his being locked up in OKC County jail on another charge. The bond is revoked and new bond is set at $20,000.00. In January of 2018 Carter pleads guilty and receives a five year suspended sentence, a hundred hours of community service, and the usual court costs and fees of $960.00. Carter makes an agreement to begin paying off the fines and fees at $50.00 per month as well as conforming to the reporting and probation rules. Carter doesn't of course, why should he? So in April of 2018 a petition for revocation of the suspended sentence is filed and an arrest warrant issued. Carter is eventually arrested and re released on $5000 bond in January of 2019.
In September of 2017 Carter was once again arrested, this time for possession of meth, driving while suspended, and possession of drug paraphernalia. His fines and fees were around $1700.00 which he of course refused to pay, leading to a June 2018 arrest warrant. When arrested again in January of 2019 he was ordered held until he paid his fines and fees or posted $1750 in bail.
In September of 2018 Carter was charged again, unauthorized use of a vehicle and obstructing an officer. He was arrested in January of this year and despite all the other felony arrests and failure to pay fines and fees, Judge Cindy Truong released Carter on the pre trial release program after setting bail at $3000.00. The bond of course was not paid as the pre trial release program had written a letter asking that Carter be released through their program and he was released on January 24th. A week later Carter was reported as violating this pre trial release and a week after that a new warrant was issued for his arrest.
But that as bad as it was was not everything. In December of 2018 an arrest warrant was issued for possession of a stolen vehicle. Liberal Judge Cindy Truong released Carter on the pre trial release program along with the September felony, no bond paid.
Then less than two weeks later the criminal is dead and two police officers wounded. Thousands of dollars in court fees and fines unpaid, crimes continuing to be committed, all because the legal system of the state refuses to hold criminals accountable or just keeping them locked up in prison.
The state has only one job that needs done; protecting me from you and you from me. All else is useless, doing things that people ought to do for themselves. One can add things like roads, one of the few needs that can be done publicly although not without a lot of waste. Yet the state finds itself refusing to lock up the criminals and the insane while providing health care, food, housing, even cell phones for those that refuse to live a productive life.
What is needed is cheap prisons or better, cheap prisons that earn a profit through inmate labor. The chicken plant labor camps are an excellent idea to accomplish this and every business in the state would take advantage of a pool of labor that was inexpensive, was guaranteed to show up every day, and would do so for the term of the sentence. There is little chance of the state being motivated to arrest people to keep the pipeline full as the criminals tend to be capable of providing plenty of crimes and even breeding the next generation of criminals. But when the day comes that punishment for crimes is swift, certain, and criminals have a hard life in a work camp is the day that crime begins to become rare.
