15/9
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Fifteen arrests in 9 months.
Chicago police arrest man for the 15th time this year—about a week after arresting him for the 14th time
It seems like just last week we told you about Cary Mamola, who was arrested by Chicago police for the 14th time this year after allegedly going on a “miniature crime spree” in Lakeview.
That’s because it was just last week. And Mamola has been quite busy since then. He pleaded guilty to the Lakeview charge, got out of jail, then got arrested by Chicago police again at the Merchandise Mart. Happy 15th, we guess.
To get you up to speed, Mamola was arrested on September 18 for assault at Jewel-Osco, 3531 North Broadway in Boystown. He walked out of the police station on his own recognizance less than 3 hours later.
Then, just before 3 p.m. on September 21, Mamola threatened to punch a female manager who confronted him for shoplifting at Walgreens, 3201 North Broadway, officials said. He ran out of the store with the beer and dipped into the Gap store across the street. There, he allegedly stole $135 worth of clothing.
Mamola was on a conditional discharge for trespassing at the time of those incidents. Last week, he pleaded guilty to retail theft for the Walgreens and Gap incident. A judge sentenced him to yet another conditional discharge, and he went free last Monday.
Then, a little after midnight on Thursday, police arrested Mamola after Merchandise Mart representatives said they had told him “on multiple occasions” that he was not allowed on the property, prosecutor Jeff Allen said. Before he was arrested, though, Mamola also damaged several filing cabinets belonging to the Mart, according to Allen.
Mamola, 44, is now charged with criminal damage to property and criminal trespassing.
“I would note,” Allen told Judge Barbara Dawkins during Mamola’s latest bail hearing, “that the defendant has no less—and I say no less ‘cuz I stopped counting at 27—misdemeanor convictions, including seven from this year alone.”
@George-K maybe they could try sending him to Martha's Vineyard?
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@Doctor-Phibes said in 15/9:
How many times do we have to learn that appeasement doesn’t work.
The US imprisons a larger proportion of its population than any other country in the world.
I don’t question that fact. But this story would seem to indicate that one too few was imprisoned.
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@Doctor-Phibes said in 15/9:
How many times do we have to learn that appeasement doesn’t work.
The US imprisons a larger proportion of its population than any other country in the world.
I don’t question that fact. But this story would seem to indicate that one too few was imprisoned.
@LuFins-Dad said in 15/9:
@Doctor-Phibes said in 15/9:
How many times do we have to learn that appeasement doesn’t work.
The US imprisons a larger proportion of its population than any other country in the world.
I don’t question that fact. But this story would seem to indicate that one too few was imprisoned.
One too few and a few hundred thousand too many. Something is all fucked up, certainly.
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@LuFins-Dad said in 15/9:
@Doctor-Phibes said in 15/9:
How many times do we have to learn that appeasement doesn’t work.
The US imprisons a larger proportion of its population than any other country in the world.
I don’t question that fact. But this story would seem to indicate that one too few was imprisoned.
One too few and a few hundred thousand too many. Something is all fucked up, certainly.
@Doctor-Phibes said in 15/9:
Something is all fucked up, certainly.
You've made this comment several times. Like LuFin's Dad, I don't dispute it.
But, any idea as to the cause?
More importantly, any idea as to a solution?
"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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@Doctor-Phibes said in 15/9:
Something is all fucked up, certainly.
You've made this comment several times. Like LuFin's Dad, I don't dispute it.
But, any idea as to the cause?
More importantly, any idea as to a solution?
@Doctor-Phibes said in 15/9:
Something is all fucked up, certainly.
You've made this comment several times. Like LuFin's Dad, I don't dispute it.
But, any idea as to the cause?
More importantly, any idea as to a solution?
I’m not sure to be honest, but it’s a pretty depressing statistic for a country that leads the way in so many things. I’ve heard it said that the three strikes law is to blame. Also, prisons for profit - prisoners doing work for very low pay and people make money out of it. Also, the philosophy that jail is a punishment rather than an opportunity for rehabilitation or to protect the public.
In many ways, America isn’t that different from the rest of the world, despite what some might claim. Maybe take a look at what other Western nations do? It wouldn’t appear that the US system is being particularly successful at combating crime, after all.
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@Doctor-Phibes said in 15/9:
How many times do we have to learn that appeasement doesn’t work.
The US imprisons a larger proportion of its population than any other country in the world.
Got an answer for you. In fact, two.
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Mental health. Our system sucks and it stems from the Reagan Administration...They bought into the whole medicate-and-close-the-institutions bit. That doesn't work. A lot of people are in jail mostly because they are crazy.
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Drugs. The U.S., as Copper has pointed out, is a country where even poor people have disposable income. Couple that with the underground drug economy and we have lots of folks in jail who committed their crimes while high as a kite.
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@Doctor-Phibes said in 15/9:
How many times do we have to learn that appeasement doesn’t work.
The US imprisons a larger proportion of its population than any other country in the world.
Got an answer for you. In fact, two.
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Mental health. Our system sucks and it stems from the Reagan Administration...They bought into the whole medicate-and-close-the-institutions bit. That doesn't work. A lot of people are in jail mostly because they are crazy.
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Drugs. The U.S., as Copper has pointed out, is a country where even poor people have disposable income. Couple that with the underground drug economy and we have lots of folks in jail who committed their crimes while high as a kite.
@Doctor-Phibes said in 15/9:
How many times do we have to learn that appeasement doesn’t work.
The US imprisons a larger proportion of its population than any other country in the world.
Got an answer for you. In fact, two.
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Mental health. Our system sucks and it stems from the Reagan Administration...They bought into the whole medicate-and-close-the-institutions bit. That doesn't work. A lot of people are in jail mostly because they are crazy.
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Drugs. The U.S., as Copper has pointed out, is a country where even poor people have disposable income. Couple that with the underground drug economy and we have lots of folks in jail who committed their crimes while high as a kite.
Is that different from other countries? Margaret Thatcher also closed the mental hospitals during the Reagan years - I actually call them the Thatcher years, but it's really debatable as to who copied who.
I'm sure we've all heard stories about people who have spent decades in jail for using or selling marijuana and other relatively minor offences.
As far as illegal drug use goes - is the rest of the West all that different? OK, Amsterdam might be an exception as it's not illegal. I believe the UK is pretty similar to the US in terms of drug use, and I don't see a massive difference in disposable income for regular folk.
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I think alot of it is cultural/generational. You have to break the cycle when kids are kids, not waiting until they are adults.
If kids see nothing but others doing bad things, that becomes the normal behavior for them in their mind.
Or, if kids see adults reacting to any confrontation with violence rather than diplomacy, they will act the same way. It seems like the US, more than most places I have been to, have a tendency to try and act tougher than the other guy when there is a situation.
I have no idea on how to break the cycle however.
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I think alot of it is cultural/generational. You have to break the cycle when kids are kids, not waiting until they are adults.
If kids see nothing but others doing bad things, that becomes the normal behavior for them in their mind.
Or, if kids see adults reacting to any confrontation with violence rather than diplomacy, they will act the same way. It seems like the US, more than most places I have been to, have a tendency to try and act tougher than the other guy when there is a situation.
I have no idea on how to break the cycle however.
@taiwan_girl said in 15/9:
I think alot of it is cultural/generational. You have to break the cycle when kids are kids, not waiting until they are adults.
If kids see nothing but others doing bad things, that becomes the normal behavior for them in their mind.
Or, if kids see adults reacting to any confrontation with violence rather than diplomacy, they will act the same way. It seems like the US, more than most places I have been to, have a tendency to try and act tougher than the other guy when there is a situation.
I have no idea on how to break the cycle however.
I agree, but a certain skin color correlation makes those observations third rail. Most people understand the primacy of culture in human thoughts and feels, but when culture correlates in inconvenient ways with skin color, our honest discussion stops. We stop making any attempt at understanding or solving anything, preferring instead to recite our virtuous narratives that have been systematically perpetuating the problem for generations.
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I think alot of it is cultural/generational. You have to break the cycle when kids are kids, not waiting until they are adults.
If kids see nothing but others doing bad things, that becomes the normal behavior for them in their mind.
Or, if kids see adults reacting to any confrontation with violence rather than diplomacy, they will act the same way. It seems like the US, more than most places I have been to, have a tendency to try and act tougher than the other guy when there is a situation.
I have no idea on how to break the cycle however.
I don't think it's the people who are being imprisoned that are the problem. I think it's the justice system that is set up to imprison so many more people than elsewhere.
This isn't about race. It's about the justice system.
You keep locking people up, and yet crime doesn't go down.
Maybe it's not working?
On a related not, there are plenty of statistics that say the death penalty isn't a deterrent, and yet people still insist that it is. Why?
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I don't think it's the people who are being imprisoned that are the problem. I think it's the justice system that is set up to imprison so many more people than elsewhere.
This isn't about race. It's about the justice system.
You keep locking people up, and yet crime doesn't go down.
Maybe it's not working?
On a related not, there are plenty of statistics that say the death penalty isn't a deterrent, and yet people still insist that it is. Why?
@Doctor-Phibes said in 15/9:
I don't think it's the people who are being imprisoned that are the problem. I think it's the justice system that is set up to imprison so many more people than elsewhere.
This isn't about race. It's about the justice system.
You keep locking people up, and yet crime doesn't go down.
Maybe it's not working?
On a related not, there are plenty of statistics that say the death penalty isn't a deterrent, and yet people still insist that it is. Why?
What I was getting at was, if certain cultures are a problem, and we refuse to consider ways to address that problem if those ways happen to contradict certain religious narratives, then we are stuck. You can read John McWhorter’s work if you want details of what I’m getting at. You have not laid out a compelling process of elimination that pinpoints the justice system as the main culprit.
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@Doctor-Phibes said in 15/9:
I don't think it's the people who are being imprisoned that are the problem. I think it's the justice system that is set up to imprison so many more people than elsewhere.
This isn't about race. It's about the justice system.
You keep locking people up, and yet crime doesn't go down.
Maybe it's not working?
On a related not, there are plenty of statistics that say the death penalty isn't a deterrent, and yet people still insist that it is. Why?
What I was getting at was, if certain cultures are a problem, and we refuse to consider ways to address that problem if those ways happen to contradict certain religious narratives, then we are stuck. You can read John McWhorter’s work if you want details of what I’m getting at. You have not laid out a compelling process of elimination that pinpoints the justice system as the main culprit.
What I was getting at was, if certain cultures are a problem, and we refuse to consider ways to address that problem if those ways happen to contradict certain religious narratives, then we are stuck. You can read John McWhorter’s work if you want details of what I’m getting at. You have not laid out a compelling process of elimination that pinpoints the justice system as the main culprit.
I don't believe that American society is particularly different from most of Western Europe, and yet you imprison significantly more people than any Western European country. I think the reason for this is that the justice system imprisons people as a matter of course.
Admittedly, you do go on about race a lot more than almost any other country in the world. Maybe that's something. If I was black and people went on about race as much as you guys do, I might start robbing shit.
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What I was getting at was, if certain cultures are a problem, and we refuse to consider ways to address that problem if those ways happen to contradict certain religious narratives, then we are stuck. You can read John McWhorter’s work if you want details of what I’m getting at. You have not laid out a compelling process of elimination that pinpoints the justice system as the main culprit.
I don't believe that American society is particularly different from most of Western Europe, and yet you imprison significantly more people than any Western European country. I think the reason for this is that the justice system imprisons people as a matter of course.
Admittedly, you do go on about race a lot more than almost any other country in the world. Maybe that's something. If I was black and people went on about race as much as you guys do, I might start robbing shit.
@Doctor-Phibes said in 15/9:
What I was getting at was, if certain cultures are a problem, and we refuse to consider ways to address that problem if those ways happen to contradict certain religious narratives, then we are stuck. You can read John McWhorter’s work if you want details of what I’m getting at. You have not laid out a compelling process of elimination that pinpoints the justice system as the main culprit.
I don't believe that American society is particularly different from most of Western Europe, and yet you imprison significantly more people than any Western European country. I think the reason for this is that the justice system imprisons people as a matter of course.
Admittedly, you do go on about race a lot more than almost any other country in the world. Maybe that's something. If I was black and people went on about race as much as you guys do, I might start robbing shit.
We go on about race in all the wrong ways, which end up perpetuating the problems.
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@Doctor-Phibes said in 15/9:
Something is all fucked up, certainly.
You've made this comment several times. Like LuFin's Dad, I don't dispute it.
But, any idea as to the cause?
More importantly, any idea as to a solution?
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In the war on drugs, it's pretty clear that drugs won.
