Indiana State Police Superintendent Doug Carter is calling for sweeping changes to the criminal justice system in Indiana.
His call comes a few weeks after his outrage over a Marion County judge giving a man accused of crashing and killing three people at the end of a chase what many consider cheap bail.
Carter was infuriated by the judge’s bond decision and used that case as an example to say the criminal justice system is broken.
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It is broken. At this point, there is ample evidence that if you belong to a certain demographic (or a certain political party with a D in it) you get a lighter sentence than others who don’t mark those checkboxes.
It’s time to make Lady Justice blind again, and start prosecuting the crime instead of the person.
Of course the system is broken. But Dougie Carter has done nothing to fix it during his tenure as head of ISP. This guy is a wolf in sheep’s clothing and wants to be governor.
Ya it’s broken alright they will arrest you for driving without a license but your car is all legal by sending someone to jail for a minor crime is retarded now someone is taking jail space if your going to arrest someone get them on drug crimes nothing like this and when you arrest someone for drug crimes get them help sure write them a ticket let them come to court and make them take the 2 step 7 program it works but people from Indiana definitely doesn’t know how the 2 step 7 program works I told them 2 years ago how it works know over 500 people have died because they don’t like programs that’s what’s wrong here all the high up people at the city hall and the courts are putting our tax money in thair pockets fact the problem will not go away until someone stands up fact
Well that was the most spot on well written statements . Unfortunately there are not more people willing to stand up for justice . One or two people get laughed out the door . Imagine 2-3 hundred standing together they could not ignore everyone . I was charged and found guilty of shoplifting $175 from a big retail store. It was my first offence yet they labeled me habitual because I was charged 2 other times prior but was found not guilty in one and the other was dismissed. So I was never convicted of a thing prior . I got jail time no plea no diversion now I got a record. Meanwhile the person before my case was charged with domestic public intox resisting and possession (weed) . That person got one year probation and he was not a first offender when it came to the booze . So broken it’s not broken at all if your part of the good ol boy club or got deep pockets . For everyone else broken is giving the system way to much credit. The system is not broken it’s all fucked up
I haven’t even read the article, and I can agree with his statement. Police are given way to much discretionary power. Then on top of that. You have judges who are not doing their job correctly. Are they not the ones who are to see that the officers have gone a bit to far in their job responsibility. No police officer should be able to arrest someone, that another officer ( make that all iv encountered)would not.
I’m far more worried about prosecutorial discretion than that of the officer. If a cop arrests you for no good reason, it gets tossed out. If a prosecutor goes after you for no good reason, you’re looking at massive legal bills at least, fines, jail time, or loss of Constitutional rights at worst.
Our system is definitely broke. It has become a police state. Police have way too much power in their hands. I don’t think you should be jailed if you have not harmed someone or their property. The prisons are already overcrowded so they just keep building bigger and “better” ones. As a free country we as it’s rulers need to change this heinous fact. We need to let our government know we disagree with this. After all isn’t it us who are supposed to be the boss. And what has happened to serve and protect. That makes me laugh!
The system also throws the book at the mentally ill but if you harm someone or their property, you are out the next day. They will put schizophrenics or others behind bars for months in solitary confinement without medication, commissary rights, visitation, or phone calls. If your mentally ill, the police arrest you when you are having an episode, take you to Union or some other hospital that treats them as if the mentally ill are in full capacity in a fill blown psychotic episode and then arrest them like criminals that are trying n control of what they are doing. Its absolutely mind blowing how incompetent hospitals around here, police, justice systems and jails handle the mentally ill!