Mexico's Violent Crimes Keeps Immigration Steady: Because of increasing violence in Mexico, the lack of Jobs in the U.S. has not dissuaded Mexican immigration. Christian Science Monitor writer Sara Miller Llana reports that many more Mexicans are motivated to leave Mexico due to the allure of U.S. safety. The lack of jobs in the U.S. brought an expectation of reverse migration, but that has not happened. The reason Mexicans are not heading back to Mexico is they feel unsafe in their country. After Mexican President Felipe Calderon took office and started his war on drugs, there has been 13,000 drug-related killings. The war on drugs has forced gangs to produce income in other areas that impact the average citizens for example, kidnapping and extortion. The fear of gang violence has kept Mexicans in the U.S., and continues to bring Mexicans to the U.S. Richard Wike, the associate director of the Global Attitude Project says that "our survey clearly shows that Mexicans are pretty unhappy with direction of their country."
California's Paroled Sex Offenders: Parole agents' case loads are too heavy to adequately keep up with paroled sex offenders. Recently, California has passed legislation in a attempt to improve the situation. New York Times writer Solomon Moore reports on the lack of supervision of convicted sex offenders. Phillip Garrido is a good example of the inadequacies of the parole system. Garrido had been monitored by GPS and there were visits to his home at least twice a month by parole agents. Even with all that parole supervision, Garrido was still able to hold Jaycee Dugard for 18 years. Additionally, in July a Los Angeles man on parole was arrested in the kidnapping and murder of 17-year-old girl. This month, legislation has been passed that reduces a parole agent's case load from around 70 to 40, and nonviolent offenders will no longer be returned to prison for infractions like missing a counseling appointment or ditching a parole agent's visit. The reason the legislator passed this law is that they believe it was necessary to reduce prison overcrowding. Corrections officers unions, police organizations, and prosecutors oppose the law because even parolees convicted of nonviolent crimes are too dangerous to be left unsupervised.
A Cost Dispute with San Jose Police Fingerprint Network: The California cities of Cupertino, Saratoga and Los Altos Hills have replaced a high tech fingerprinting system with the old age method of typing out the hard copy forms and using mail when booking an offender into jail. Mercury News writer Tracey Kaplan reports that on July 1, 2009, the three disgruntled cities dropped out of the computerized fingerprint network, operated by the San Jose Police Department, because a county auditor said that six out of 15 cities were being overcharged to use the network. The change in the cities' booking method has added 30 to 40 minutes onto the process, this eats up time of officers, and hinders regional crime solving. Now when someone is fingerprinted in one of the three cities, their prints are not compared to prints stored in the countywide data base of unsolved crimes. That means any of the three cities could have had someone in their grasp that is linked to an unsolved crime, and never now it. If this problem is not solved soon there could be a breakdown in central fingerprinting process system. Cross-jurisdictional crime-fighting has already been affected.
California's Paroled Sex Offenders: Parole agents' case loads are too heavy to adequately keep up with paroled sex offenders. Recently, California has passed legislation in a attempt to improve the situation. New York Times writer Solomon Moore reports on the lack of supervision of convicted sex offenders. Phillip Garrido is a good example of the inadequacies of the parole system. Garrido had been monitored by GPS and there were visits to his home at least twice a month by parole agents. Even with all that parole supervision, Garrido was still able to hold Jaycee Dugard for 18 years. Additionally, in July a Los Angeles man on parole was arrested in the kidnapping and murder of 17-year-old girl. This month, legislation has been passed that reduces a parole agent's case load from around 70 to 40, and nonviolent offenders will no longer be returned to prison for infractions like missing a counseling appointment or ditching a parole agent's visit. The reason the legislator passed this law is that they believe it was necessary to reduce prison overcrowding. Corrections officers unions, police organizations, and prosecutors oppose the law because even parolees convicted of nonviolent crimes are too dangerous to be left unsupervised.
A Cost Dispute with San Jose Police Fingerprint Network: The California cities of Cupertino, Saratoga and Los Altos Hills have replaced a high tech fingerprinting system with the old age method of typing out the hard copy forms and using mail when booking an offender into jail. Mercury News writer Tracey Kaplan reports that on July 1, 2009, the three disgruntled cities dropped out of the computerized fingerprint network, operated by the San Jose Police Department, because a county auditor said that six out of 15 cities were being overcharged to use the network. The change in the cities' booking method has added 30 to 40 minutes onto the process, this eats up time of officers, and hinders regional crime solving. Now when someone is fingerprinted in one of the three cities, their prints are not compared to prints stored in the countywide data base of unsolved crimes. That means any of the three cities could have had someone in their grasp that is linked to an unsolved crime, and never now it. If this problem is not solved soon there could be a breakdown in central fingerprinting process system. Cross-jurisdictional crime-fighting has already been affected.
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