Only reason why it's even on the news is because she's friends with Sarah Mattison. So you gotta know someone for HPD/prosecutors to do their job due to being overwhelmed. Which is totally understandable. Remember when my car got broken into an my neighbor ID'd the guy sitting inside my car. Well prosecutor declined to press charges. So guy got away Scott free.
The LT in charged called me because I knew him and even he didn't have pull with the prosecutors for a simple unauthorized entry to motor vehicle.
Dallas County DA just instituted a policy not to prosecute any property crime having a value of goods less than $750. Talk about euphemisms! "Dallas County District Attorney John Creuzot defended his recent decision to stop prosecuting certain
quality-of-life crimes over the objections of members of the Dallas City Council's Public Safety and Criminal Justice Committee on Monday. The reforms, Creuzot said, are meant to make Dallas a safer,
more equitable city." He also called prosecuting such crimes "
criminalizing poverty".
Reminds me of the scene in Annie Hall where Woody Allen's character is visiting (via time warp) his childhood home where his parents are arguing because his mother is upset that their "colored" cleaning woman has been stealing from them. The father's counter argument is "She's a colored woman. She lives in Harlem. She has
a right to steal from us. If not from us, from who?"
Never thought that would be reality, at least at the official government policy level...
