#2 | Posted by commnotes

FTA: Just 13% of the defendants " a little over two dozen " have been accused of the sort of violent crimes that lawmakers cited when arguing for the legislation, such as rape, armed robbery and murder. Prosecutors were able to move such cases to adult court even before the law was changed.

In other words, a stupid law that fixed nothing other than to put all crimes committed as a 17-year old juvenile on the permanent record of someone still considered a kid. Just guessing they aren't giving them the benefits of being an adult are they? Nope, not guessing - knowing. Just as an example, I know gangs use under aged kids for crimes on the theory they won't be charged as an adult. This does nothing to change that either. The scare scenarios used as illustrated would have been charged as adults anyhow. '

I am sure there is a financial motivator here (You private prisons and all that) in addition to look "we are cracking down on crime" - that is going down anyhow.