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veggie

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Oregon county decriminalizes heroin, meth, cocaine and shoplifting, among others
#13322958 - 10/11/10 08:53 PM (13 years, 7 months ago) |
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Oregon county decriminalizes heroin, meth, cocaine and shoplifting, among others October 11, 2010 - rawstory.com
It's crunch-time for many municipalities across the United States, but for one county in Oregon, that means a little more than in most.
The district attorney in Multnomah County, the state's most populous area with over 710,000 residents, announced recently that it can no longer prosecute dozens of crimes thanks to an ever-shrinking budget.
Caught with small amounts of heroin, cocaine or methamphetamine? It's a ticket. So's a hit-and-run accident. Small-time shoplifting? You'll still get arrested, but it's still just a violation.
For these and other lesser crimes, the district attorney will simply refuse to prosecute.
Still, police have been directed to continue operating as normal, making arrests as they see fit, and it'll be up to the county's attorneys to decide what gets prosecuted.
In spite of the relaxed penalties for numerous crimes, chances are the drunk driver who recently rear-ended the county's sheriff will see the business end of a judge's gavel.
But it might take a while: Schrunk's staff was recently cut by 27 percent, according to statements provided in a media advisory.
"In a perfect world, you commit a crime, you'd be prosecuted for what it is," district attorney Mike Schrunk told The Oregonian. "[We] don't have unlimited funds."
Other crimes which the county will adjust to violation level include trespassing on non-commercial property, "theft or forgery in the second degree," harassment, interfering with a police officer, interfering with public transportation, resisting arrest (non-injury) and criminal mischief in the second degree.
The district attorney's full memorandum was available online at time of publication.
In spite of the budgetary rue, Multnomah County is one of only a few in the nation that is piloting a program that affixes GPS tracking bracelets to youths convicted of gang-related crimes: a practice widely criticized by civil rights groups.
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Arden
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Re: Oregon county decriminalizes heroin, meth, cocaine and shoplifting, among others [Re: veggie]
#13323061 - 10/11/10 09:10 PM (13 years, 7 months ago) |
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There are no data that show incarceration is an effective deterrent anyway.
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SuperD
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Re: Oregon county decriminalizes heroin, meth, cocaine and shoplifting, among others [Re: Arden]
#13323091 - 10/11/10 09:15 PM (13 years, 7 months ago) |
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Arden said: There are no data that show incarceration is an effective deterrent anyway.
The death penalty doesn't deter drug traffickers in places like Malaysia either. If the death penalty isn't enough of a deterrent, I don't know what would be.
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Zardos
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Re: Oregon county decriminalizes heroin, meth, cocaine and shoplifting, among others [Re: veggie]
#13323613 - 10/11/10 11:05 PM (13 years, 7 months ago) |
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Wow I wasn't expecting this
-------------------- December 1960: "They took the drug one evening at Leary's house and had a profound experience, during which Ginsburg prophetically realized that it was a time to start "a peace and love movement". He then ran naked around the house, attempted to get Kruschev and Kennedy on the telephone and announced to the operator that he was God."
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CappCracka
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Re: Oregon county decriminalizes heroin, meth, cocaine and shoplifting, among others [Re: Arden]
#13323644 - 10/11/10 11:11 PM (13 years, 7 months ago) |
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Arden said: There are no data that show incarceration is an effective deterrent anyway.
AGREED! well said,
if anything when your a junkie crook, you have nothing but your junk, so a few months or years living in a cell with food and water, AND TV is a luxury,
this government makes me sick, I CANNOT AFFORD TO GET THE GROCERIES I WANT OR NEED, BUT IAM PAYING TO INCARCERATE JUNKIES,RAPIST AND MURDERERS ITS FUCKING DISGUSTING
"ill keep my money my guns and my freedom"
im thinkin seriously of moving to texas, where i can protect myself, and if 2 people see you do it, you move to the front of the line, texas has no death row, they kill the worthless fuck so i dont have to pay for them...MAKES EFFIN SENSE
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Re: Oregon county decriminalizes heroin, meth, cocaine and shoplifting, among others [Re: CappCracka]
#13324006 - 10/12/10 01:15 AM (13 years, 7 months ago) |
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jails dont have to neccesarilly cost money
micheal moore movie advertisement here...
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