Friday, December 29, 2006
It's no secret that I like Warren Bolton more than the Brad Warthen or Cindi Scoppe mainly because he doesn't demonize his opponents. But he does get his fair share of issues wrong.Check out the latest column. Even though your siblings told you not to snitch, your Mom warned you not to be a tattletale, and your schoolmates taught you not to rat them out, good ol' Warren thinks what we need is a society of informers.If you want a safer society there are a lot of things we need but more snitches isn't one of them. We need better, more enforceable/sensible laws; more resources and better training for police; more police; focus on more serious violent crimes and less on smaller violations; truth-in-sentencing (less parole); perhaps most importantly, we need more opportunities through decent education.Bolton tries to equate "snitching" with citizen cooperation. No. Any citizen who sees a crime should assist and cooperate with the police. But volunteering information to get a lighter sentence must be discouraged. Encouraging citizens to fabricate stories to tell the police what they want to here is downright dangerous and inimical to a free society. Mr. Bolton, please let me introduce you to Corey Maye, Kenneth Jamar, Kathryn Johnston, Acelynne Williams, etc., etc. Oh hell, if you want to break with State tradition and do some research, look at the map and check out the entire report.
Posted by Bill Smith at 12:39 PM |
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