The ridiculous violence in N.O.

BHM said

I could be wrong but I do not think our jails are packed with first time offenders. I do not think it is filled with people that were caught with a roach for the first time.

I have sat through a few court sessions and what I saw was a lot of slap on the wrists and probations. Only the repeat repeat offenders were given jail time. This was here in Lafayette. Maybe different in other areas.


Provide them jobs? Tell me more about that. Jobs working where and doing what? Are you talking about making them cut grass along the sidewalks or picking up trash?

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Many of these folks doing this crime aren't even old enough to legally work, and the ones that are old enough would see work as an opportunity to score better crimes. It's the way these kids were raised by their crack-head parent (one parent if they were lucky). Jobs are only a small part of the answer. Do you guys really think these perps are going to go home and sleep so they can get up and go weld at a ship yard if given the chance where they have to show up every day at 5 am and not walk away with half the tools. That's not the way they were raised. They believe in taking from those who have anything not working for those who have things. Somehow you have to re-program that mind-set or take them out of society. A few years ago we had a trial program where I work. Kids spent their time trying stealing credit card numbers from the folks trying to help them. They would have led the folks who were trying to help them directly into muggings and possibly killings if given the opportunity. Don't believe it, try to help these kids sometime get a job. You might wind up in a ditch somewhere if you do.