Criminal experts try and pinpoint why crime rates are still soaring in major U.S. cities, and why they still refuse to lose hope in society.
Criminal defense attorney Joseph Gutheinz, a certified fraud examiner for 33 years told Fox News Digital the criminal justice system has it backwards by focusing on the needs of criminals.
"That direction is to make crime less costly, to commit and to make the law more costly to enforce," he told Fox Digital."Every single significant policy level that's been pulled does one of the following things that either limits police power, it curbs prosecutor discretion, or it just significantly lowers the transaction cost of criminal behavior for defendants by making penalties less likely, less severe, etc.
But bail reform advocates say the current system disproportionately affects minorities and the poor, leaving many to sit behind bars simply because they cannot afford to pay their bail. The experts also agreed that a factor playing into criminals' hands are district attorneys who are"shirking" their responsibilities by failing to prosecute some crimes. "I get about 20 percent of my cases dismissed outright, and many of those cases are meritorious," Gutheinz said."Certain sex, theft and assault cases are routinely dismissed.
Mangual called for revisiting the idea of a"modified version of three strikes," in which individuals are being taken off the street for repeated criminal conduct. Because, he said, there are a group of offenders that has"no intention of abiding by societal norms." He also lobbied for"truth in sentencing," which would require"hamstringing the ability of irresponsible parole boards to release people who are not ready to be released.
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