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Monday, January 31, 2011

Comment on Justice: Delayed, Dismissed, Denied

Tell us what you think about The Inquirer's series, Justice: Delayed, Dismissed, Denied by commenting below.
Posted by Inquirer Online Desk @ 10:04 AM  Permalink | 109 comments
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  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 5:29 PM, 12/14/2009
    HEY: It's brutal when the thugs own the town. No one trusts the city leaders to help them out. To many drugs and WAY too many guns. People that can move away, move away. The poor people can't move and the cancer grows.
    — mungman
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 8:11 PM, 12/14/2009
    Absolute Disgrace....the city and it's law enforcement, DA's office and whoever else is involved should be embarrassed!!!! I work in a surrounding county and deal mostly with Philadelphia criminals, when they say their charges will be dropped, they laugh b/c they know the truth. The 99% dismissal rate.....i'm sick over this. In order for me to do my job, other's need to do their's. Again, I still can't believe this story!
    — LawEnforce
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 9:17 PM, 12/14/2009
    Congratulations to the Inquirer and the fine work done by reporters Nancy Phillips, Craig McCoy and Dylan Purcell. This is an important story, effectively told. Let's hope that real change is inspired by this effort and that more stories of this caliber follow.
    — Sherrill56
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  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 10:04 PM, 12/14/2009
    The black community has an ongoing "stop snitching" campaign that has more to do with frustrating the police--whom they despise--than with fear for their personal safety. That's a cultural issue within the black community that will not be solved with more funding. Why don't you mention that?
    — hopdevil
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 12:45 AM, 12/15/2009
    This country has the highest incarceration in the world, and jails in Philly and PA are bursting at the seams. No doubt, the solution to all of our problems, however, is to stuff a few thousand more in there at $25,000 a pop. Then we'll all feel safe, everyone on the outside will be model citizens, and it will be much easier to ignore the causes of crime and leave our City with rotting neighborhoods, lousy schools, and no libraries (well we'll have to sacrifice something to pay for the increase in jails, won't we?) Thank you Inquirer; now please, the rest of us; it's our job to simply believe . . . believe that more dungeons, not ending poverty, are the keys to the City's peace and prosperity.
    — Stan Shapiro
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 7:51 AM, 12/15/2009
    Why is it that at the END of Abraham's tenure we get this series? The Inquirer endorsed Lynne for all the years she ran for office. The Inquirer would run articles that her office "leaked" about how bad everyone else was... judges, court admin, defense attorneys.... everyone BUT her office... All of those articles without ONCE looking at the DAs and their motives. Why is it that this series ASSUMES everyone arrested is guilty? Do the writers at the Inquirer understand that this same DAs office had a policy, in collaboration with the police, to arrest, charge and sort it out later (in the courts) without regard to guilt or innocence at the charging level? Have the writers ever taken a course in statistics? I ask because they use statistics to make their point without consideration of other factors... such as what I cite above. This series is a mess on so many levels.
    — jodyd
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 8:29 AM, 12/15/2009
    On the "stop snitchin" mentality: I was listening to WIP 610 the other week, and a caller said he'd just seen a hit-and-run accident (while on the phone). The caller said he had to hang up to call police. Afterwards, Ike Reese, one of the sports commentators on the air, said he wouldn't have called the police. He said if he saw a car hit another car and run off, he wouldn't give the license tag to police. UNBELIEVABLE! What does it say about our society when people like Ike Reese, a former sports star who has the attention of young people listening to WIP, perpetuate the "stop snitchin" mentality on the air? That Ike Reese wouldn't call police when he saw a hit and run crime, and say as much to the public over the air, is very telling of what our culture here in Philly has come to.
    — Jim19130
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 9:11 AM, 12/15/2009
    These articles are an absolute disgrace to the court system, the DA, and the city law department. Pathetic. An absolute embarrassment. But I'm sure all these agencies will continue to make excuses.
    — chrissmith
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 9:30 AM, 12/15/2009
    Ladies and Gentilmen...let's review the crime problem in Killadelphia over just the last year...K? Let's look at Gov. Rendell, the State Parole Board, The Mayor, City Council, State Attorney General and remember the following small, partial list of State Parole Offenders who made the papers.... Besides Murchison and Wilson (The PIAZZA MURDERS) and Porter, Evans (Murderers), let's add Carrisquillo (Rapist), Shaw (Frankford Rapist), don't forget Burgess (Serial Killer and Rapist); Giddings, Cain, Warner (COP KILLERS); Wilson, Norman, Magee, Lassister, Hill, Trinsey, Wise, Latham, Bryant and the 4 out of the 5 gunmen who just recently murdered "Piggy" the mother of 4 children (All are Shoot-Out Artists and again were under State Parole "Supervision"). Why were they on the street and kept on the street? Money...to save money. State Budget Monies (specifically) that were spent on "No Bid" and about 60 million on other "Inappropiate" Contracts that went to Campiagn Contributors and friends of Governor Rendell. Why are so few Parole Violators being sent back to prison for serious offenses and even kept on the street while they have new open court cases...like Carrisquillo? Why are there so few State Parole Field Agents in Killadelphia? Why are 2,000 State Inmates being released each month? MONEY. The Mayor, City Council, State Legislature, State's Attorney General were all told about 21 months ago about this SCANDAL and they have done nothing to stop it. Studies...proposed legislation...it’s all more opium for the masses. Want to help? Encourage all the victims and surviving family members to sue the State. Ask our Mayor and City Council to sue the State and get our money back! Email Mike.Levy@usdoj.gov and ask him to investigate and prosecute "The Rendell Murders", he'll know what you are talking about 215-861-8200. The President's Comment Line = 1-202-456-1111. Remember State Parolees are responsible for our Murder and Crime Rates. Take action...make some calls.
    — John Law
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 9:40 AM, 12/15/2009
    This is a system created by lawyers, run by lawyers and is 1 billion in debt. This is a outrage!!!!
    — jerryk2b
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 9:55 AM, 12/15/2009
    Broken Justice System, broken schools, pervasive corruption, broken city finances, a large per centage of the City's residents are morally bankrupt. But above all, Vote Democrat, keep the machine fed.
    — tr88
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 10:14 AM, 12/15/2009
    Here's an idea. Decriminalize possession of marijuana and small amounts (a gram or less) of cocaine, including crack. That will allow a system that's stretched to the breaking point to focus on the real problem, violent offenders. We can't afford $30,000 a year hotel stays for drug users.
    — hopdevil
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 10:33 AM, 12/15/2009
    First, congratulations for bringing back journalism on the scale that our lives in Philadelphia are actually lived, experienced and suffer through. The out of control crime threatens to expand outside of the poor neighborhoods and turn over half the city into a failed region, unsafe,ungovernable and on a trajectory to unredeemable backwater status. But it does not have to be the case. Certainly, the police department can start policing the area that need it and be supported by the rest of the justice system and the penal system.
    — Fernando08
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 10:46 AM, 12/15/2009
    Very well done series by the Inquirer however why has Nutter not been interviewed for this article? And if he has and is not responding, then why does it not tell us that?
    — ashleypeskoe


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