Is this typical of small town America?

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The following is from a small town newspaper. It caught my attention, because it is local:

Crime is Topic No. 1 in Selma, which makes the story of Adam Joshua Perez worth telling. Selma Police have arrested Perez 24 times since he turned 18 in October 2004. Charges against the Selma man have included burglary, theft, possession of narcotics and weapons-related offenses, according to interim Police Chief Myron Dyck. In that time period, the Fresno County Sheriff's Department also arrested Perez eight times and the Kingsburg Police took him into custody four times, Dyck said. Fresno Police also were looking at him for some car thefts, Dyck added.

He calls Perez (born Oct. 23, 1986) a career criminal who's getting the benefit of a broken criminal justice system. And there are other people like Perez on Selma's streets, Dyck said.

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He's been arrested 24 times in the past 7 years, and yet is still out on the street.

Is this typical of what is happening where you are? Just curious.

Why is this? We have more prisoners per capita than any other nation, yet we're letting criminals go over and over again.

How many jails do we need, anyway?

(No, I didn't make up the name of the police chief. That's really his name)

 

[dogtowner]

nothing new about this (you KNEW this was coming)