See our Big Dates Page – the only comprehensive calendar of events in all of southeast Seattle – for more information on these and other south-end gatherings, events, meetings, groups, etc. In the meantime, here’s a sampling of what’s happening around the community this week…
Tuesday:
- Rainier Valley Rotary Club meeting, Columbia City
- Night Out Against Crime 2010, Nationwide
Wednesday:
- Hillman City Business Association meeting, Hillman City
- Southeast Seattle Crime Prevention Council meeting, Brighton
Thursday:
- 1st Thursday at the Northwest African American Museum, Mt. Baker
- FirstThursday Seattle meeting, Rainier Vista
- Othello Station Bazaar, Othello
Friday:
- Join Justice Works! to stand for justice, Columbia City
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I don’t understand Justice Works! advocating for 3 Strikes Reform. Well, I guess I understand it, but I don’t support it.
If you have committed and, more importantly, been convicted of 3 consecutive felonies on the 3 strikes list (I think it would be giving our justice system a little too much credit to suppose that someone is convicted for every crime that is committed), you seem to have proven (to my satisfaction, anyway) that you are not a productive member of society, and are in fact someone that should be kept locked up to protect other people.
A 3 strike law seems to protect an innocent person to a reasonable degree; getting erroneously convicted of a serious felony once may happen, and there may be extenuating circumstances that lead to a second time. But being erroneously convicted in a court of law three times of a felony would seem to be highly unlikely, and bordering on the absurd.
Especially when the felonies must be consecutive; stealing a car, shooting the owner during the robbery, and running over bystanders during the same incident would not alone qualify the perpetrator for the 3 strikes minimum sentence. They would have to do that, then rob someone on another occasion, and (in Justice Works! words) “start a barroom brawl” on yet another occasion.
Aggressive policing and minimum sentencing rules absolutely slashed the car theft problem around Seattle; it seems that most of the crimes are being committed by the same crooks.
“If you can’t do the time,…”
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