Our friend Tim is back on the bandwagon again. Campaigning for disaster. Sadly, Tim, will not give up on this panhandling ordinance. Despite reassurance that the panhandling ordinance is not a criminal attempt (which we know that to be a lie…), the real issue would affect those homeless that cannot work. Tim seeks more affidavit support from public and has become obsessed with the panhandlers issue.
I’m on it. Perhaps there is some truth to the rumors we’re hearing. Promises of ‘aftercare’ and fat donations for running for Mayor after McGinn.
We just have to wait for those private discussions with the real people who have pulled his strings. A nationwide crew change is now taking place within NAU. New faces are now in Seattle, the old faces will soon replace others in cities across America. While this next team has seen action in New York, City, they are far more professional actors and actresses than Hollywood could ever screen. These folks do it for real. They believe that their cover is the truth. Twelve graduates of Juilliard’s hoping to make it in Hollywood will now go onto the real stage. Additionally, four criminologists will be added to the two that we have in Seattle. After some training from the Rangers, Yuri and the SPC (Mother) they will be in the field soon.
“What if we could have less crime and, at the same time, less punishment?
Has our nation’s focus on severity of punishment helped? Some argue that crime has fallen precisely because of our mass incarceration practices. But despite pretty dramatic reductions in crime since the mid-1990s, our rate of reported crimes is still 2.5 times higher than the mid-1960s. And we are beginning to see an uptick in crime rates again, even while we continue mass incarceration.
One of the country’s leading policing and criminal justice reform advocates will be in Seattle this week for a series of meetings and public appearances. I’d like to invite you to this free event tomorrow night:
Town Hall (8th Avenue and Seneca Street)
Thursday, April 22, 2010 at 7:30 p.m.
Presentation by Mark Kleiman, Professor of Public Policy at UCLA
The presentation will be followed by a panel response from:
Secretary Eldon Vail , Washington State Department of Corrections
Chief Criminal Deputy Mark Larson , King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office
Alison Holcomb , ACLU of Washington
Judge Wesley Saint Clair , King County Superior Court
In addition, the City Council’s Public Safety and Education Committee will host a dialog with Professor Kleiman on Thursday afternoon at 3 p.m. in Council Chambers. The public is welcome to attend this event as well.
As a society, we cannot be complacent about the fact that the United States is now the world’s largest jailer on a per capita basis; we practice mass incarceration at the rate of about 700 per 100,000 population. More than two million Americans are in prison at any given time.
I hope to see you at one of these events.”
The BBBIIIGGG question that remains…How far will he take it up the arse from the Mob- if he fails? Hmm. Makes you wonder.
