Sheriff Swanson is short staff & has said that they only hold the most dangerous inmates. And then Swanson states that they have TOO many prisoners & will have to let some loose. (Threats to get more taxes!)
Then we read that a 19yr old kid is held for being drunk...YES, it's a crime...fine the kid & turn him over to his parents.
Sounds like this could turn into another lawsuit if they abused him at the jail like they have done to others.
Why is the FIRST reaction to budget problems always a tax increase?
No concessions talks? No staff cuts? No effort to inform the public exactly what the budget numbers are, and where the money is going?
So when the three new guys come on the force crime will drop? Are they new hires for the decades old "Drug War"?
80% of the prisoners are in there for drug violations. States are going broke trying to keep them all locked up. Its time to end the war on drugs. It took 13 years of prohibition, to find out it was never going to work. They didn't repeal prohibition because booze was determined to now be healthy for people. They repealed it to get rid of all the crime & corruption associated with it.
And all the cost in policing, prosecuting, and imprisoning people.
Would you send a buddy that offered you a beer from his six pack to prison for as many years as some get for drugs? Basically that’s what you are doing with drug laws. And might have done during prohibition when it was illegal. The morality of the situation never changed, ONLY THE LAWS.
And since when is having the punishment worse than the offense done any good?
You can NOT regulate something that is illegal. The only way to regulate something is to legalize it.
If they were legalized we could at least get people off the worst of them and it would get the drug money out of the hands of gangs, foreign mobsters, and the rest.
And with taxes it would bring in revenue to pay for programs to control it. And with a new industry we would get much needed jobs created.
And this would get rid of all the other problems associated with them, and it would give us a chance to try to 'control' the problem more, like we have done with alcohol and cigarettes.
We have fought this “War on Drugs” for decades, to continue to do the same thing and expect a different result would be insanity.
Somehow, we haven't learned that lesson on the "War on Drugs" yet.
And then maybe we can get the police forces reduced to where they need to be, and be able for taxpayers to afford them.
Poland teen jailed for public urination
Sheriff Swanson is short staff & has said that they only hold the most dangerous inmates.
And then Swanson states that they have TOO many prisoners & will have to let some loose. (Threats to get more taxes!)
Then we read that a 19yr old kid is held for being drunk...YES, it's a crime...fine the kid & turn him over to his parents.
Sounds like this could turn into another lawsuit if they abused him at the jail like they have done to others.
March 12, 2011 at 8:08 a.m. permalink suggest removal
Old, unused medications to be collected
Yeah stop by the Stark County Sheriff's...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5hf-a...
September 27, 2010 at 12:08 p.m. permalink suggest removal
Strickland issues order banning outsourcing
Oh boy!! The horse & pony show for elections.
Has ANYONE who posted here ever tried to call Strickland & get an issue brought to his attention?
Strickland's office tried to tell me once that the governor had NO way to stop abuses by a county sheriff.
August 22, 2010 at 5:55 a.m. permalink suggest removal
Boardman trustees hire three officers, put police levy on ballot
Why is the FIRST reaction to budget problems always a tax increase?
No concessions talks? No staff cuts? No effort to inform the public exactly what the budget numbers are, and where the money is going?
So when the three new guys come on the force crime will drop? Are they new hires for the decades old "Drug War"?
80% of the prisoners are in there for drug violations. States are going broke trying to keep them all locked up.
Its time to end the war on drugs.
It took 13 years of prohibition, to find out it was never going to work. They didn't repeal prohibition because booze was determined to now be healthy for people. They repealed it to get rid of all the crime & corruption associated with it.
And all the cost in policing, prosecuting, and imprisoning people.
Would you send a buddy that offered you a beer from his six pack to prison for as many years as some get for drugs?
Basically that’s what you are doing with drug laws. And might have done during prohibition when it was illegal. The morality of the situation never changed, ONLY THE LAWS.
And since when is having the punishment worse than the offense done any good?
You can NOT regulate something that is illegal. The only way to regulate something is to legalize it.
If they were legalized we could at least get people off the worst of them and it would get the drug money out of the hands of gangs, foreign mobsters, and the rest.
And with taxes it would bring in revenue to pay for programs to control it. And with a new industry we would get much needed jobs created.
And this would get rid of all the other problems associated with them, and it would give us a chance to try to 'control' the problem more, like we have done with alcohol and cigarettes.
We have fought this “War on Drugs” for decades, to continue to do the same thing and expect a different result would be insanity.
Somehow, we haven't learned that lesson on the "War on Drugs" yet.
And then maybe we can get the police forces reduced to where they need to be, and be able for taxpayers to afford them.
July 30, 2010 at 5:38 a.m. permalink suggest removal
A heartfelt tribute to Dustin Huffman
I am so sorry for your loss, but I would like to applaud Cheyenne West for her thoughtfulness in keeping the memory of Dustin.
November 26, 2009 at 12:20 p.m. permalink suggest removal