I'm feeling Mayor Berry... (Albuquerque, Loving: sex offender, fingerprinting, crime)

[thelazyone]

Once he rids the city of petty crime, burglary and theft ABQ is gonna explode in a good way.


mayor-berry-pledges-to-fight-property-crime (http://www.cabq.gov/police/mayor-berry-pledges-to-fight-property-crime.html - broken link)

[rybert]

Berry to the rescue!

Berry’s Plan includes:

• Seeking federal prosecution for property crimes involving firearms. Sounds good.
• Fingerprinting everyone who is arrested no matter how small the crime. Heck yeah!
• Dispatching CSIs to every burglary. Depends, regular cops can't dust for prints or perform basic crime scene duties?
• Offering cash incentives for people who turn in property crime offenders. Sounds good.
• Tracking property crime offenders who are out on probation. Isn't everybody on probation being tracked?
• Developing a system that allows pawn shops to track stolen property. Sure.
• Sending out mass emails to the community. Sounds good.
• “Tweeting” every car that is stolen. ONE OF MY FAVORITE PROPOSALS!
• Creating a public database that can be accessed through smart phones providing information on stolen vehicles. Loving it!
• Pursuing a meaningful Three Strikes Law. Is there something magical about the number three?
• Creating a night detective squad to respond to property crimes in the evening hours. Sure.
• Advertising wanted property crime offenders on billboards and in the newspaper. Eh... couldn't that be sent out in the emails/tweets?

Hard to believe that we weren't finger printing every person being shuffled through the police department.

[thelazyone]

Originally Posted by rybert

Berry to the rescue!

Berry’s Plan includes:

• Tracking property crime offenders who are out on probation. Isn't everybody on probation being tracked? (It's no better in NY)
• Pursuing a meaningful Three Strikes Law. Is there something magical about the number three? (Think Baseball )

Hard to believe that we weren't finger printing every person being shuffled through the police department. (Yeah this is a head scratcher).

[rybert]

I get the baseball reference, but it seems arbitrary.

[thelazyone]

It's another dull day @ work & I just scammed through the entire NM/ABA sex offender registry. I just and hopefull will never understand why a person has to look at a child for the s@xual needs. Go get a blow up if you are in that much need. I think between NY/CA/FL, those 3 states alone probably have enough offenders to make a link around the world once.

[ABQConvict]

I like all of that except for 'three-strikes'. Arbitrary penal guidelines smack of totalitarianism and police-states.


ABQConvict

[karmathecat]

Originally Posted by rybert

Advertising wanted property crime offenders on billboards and in the newspaper. Eh... couldn't that be sent out in the emails/tweets?

Actually, they've already done one insert. It, along with the photos of the lovely DWI offenders, is something I look forward to.

[rybert]

Yeah, but if we're talking about saving the city some $... we could stop supporting that rag... er... The Journal.

[Poncho_NM]

And the billboards are free? If so, isn't that an illegal donation? Etc, etc, etc...

Perhaps more press releases from the Albuquerque Police Department or appropriate agency.


Rich

[rybert]

Pretty sure Clear Channel will be charging the city the highest price possible... something we should strive to avoid.