Sheriff: Shooting that killed six results when we treat ‘criminals like victims and victims like criminals’

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In the aftermath of the April 3 mass shooting in Sacramento, Calif., the elected sheriff in that jurisdiction suggests that the Democrat-controlled state has its priorities reversed when it comes to public safety.

California, along with some other states, treats criminals like victims and victims like criminals, and the result of this cause and effect puts violent offenders back on the street with predictable, tragic results, Sheriff Scott Jones lamented.

Six people were killed and double that number injured in the gunfire in the downtown Sacramento incident near the state capitol. According to the Sacramento PD, detectives found 100-plus shell casings and a stolen handgun at the scene.

Over the objections of prosecutors, one of the suspects in the Sacramento shooting — who allegedly has a long rap sheet — was reportedly granted early release in February less than halfway through a 10-year sentence for assaulting his girlfriend.

“The best predictor of future behavior is past conduct, and violent people, they’re going to be violent when they get out, and that’s what we’ve seen here,” Jones, who is running for Congress as a Republican, told Fox News.

“Every crime has a victim and these victims are racking up, sometimes minorly and sometimes catastrophically, like we saw in Sacramento [on April 3]. This is the latest, but it, unfortunately, won’t be the last. Because if we don’t change the way California and the rest of this nation treats criminals…then this is only going to be a continuing trend,” the lawman added.

The suspect in question, Smiley Martin, 27, reportedly obtained his early release, in part, under a voter-approved California referendum called Proposition 57, which gives inmates an opportunity to cut their sentence with good behavior.

In an earlier news release, Sacramento PD explained that Martin was hospitalized for “serious injuries from gunfire” and will be booked in the Sacramento County Jail when his medical treatment is completed. The charges are “possession of a firearm by a prohibited person and possession of a machine gun.”

Martin’s brother has also been arrested in connection with the early morning incident.

The investigation is ongoing into the crime that cops claim is gang-related.

The sheriff implied that Prop 57, approved by voters with short memories, is part of the problem.

“In the late 80s and early 90s…violent crime in California and across the country was so bad that it gave rise to things like three strikes, gang enhancements, gun enhancements, things to really address the out-of-control violence that was occurring,” Jones recalled.

“Well, that has led, at least in California, and I think as a nationwide trend, to violent crime being reduced over the last two or three decades, it has worked. But people have a short memory, and they say, ‘Well, since we aren’t as violent anymore, we don’t need these things,’ without realizing the cause and effect, that these things actually reduce violent crime.”

“As we chisel away at these things, as we chisel away at three strikes, as we chisel away at enhancements, as we let people out of jail, as we start treating criminals like victims and victims like criminals, it’s entirely predictable what is going to happen, and we’re seeing it play out,” Sheriff Jones concluded.

California under Gov. Gavin Newsom has also granted early release to thousands of inmates with COVID-19-as a basis.

California voters also approved Proposition 47, a referendum that downgraded certain felonies to misdemeanors, resulting in an epidemic, for example, of smash-and-grab robberies and brazen shoplifting.

Democrats from Joe Biden on down tend to focus on guns rather than those who have a history of using them when it comes to crimes committed with firearms.

Violent crime is surging in California’s big cities (and other Democrat-controlled enclaves around the country) owing to catch-and-release policies as well as various Soros-backed district attorneys who are often ideologically opposed to prosecuting even recidivists or career criminals.

Watch a report on the Sacramento shootout aired by ABC10:

All suspects are presumed innocent until or unless they are convicted in a court of law of any alleged crimes.

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17 thoughts on “Sheriff: Shooting that killed six results when we treat ‘criminals like victims and victims like criminals’

  1. Sounds like California voters keep stepping on the Referenda rake. Are they really that stupid?

    1. 😅 ….. I don’t think that warrants a reply; Well besides this 😎

  2. Our daily dose of Unbathed, criminal, feral, ghetto rats behaving badly.
    “The media’s the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that’s power. Because they control the minds of the masses.”
    ― Malcolm X
    ‘Just as every cop is a criminal … And all the sinners saints’
    ~ Rolling Stones ~ Sympathy for the Devil

  3. This problem, as with all others, is people are ceding to the authority of woke politicians who are elected based upon pandering. There is active encouragement to be criminals by these pretenders.

  4. The trick is for the rest of America, how do we keep these lifetime criminals out of our cities? You guessed correct, remove their Democrat mayor’s and governor’s come November. Let the entire nation start protest on the Woke idiots and start to deny them any platform to spill their I’ll thought out garbage.

  5. And of course it took days for the pics of CRIMINALS to be posted.. Why ?
    Didn’t want to offend the 13 % ‘rs , or P.O. Black Lies Matter… although they were busy buying another mansion with DONATIONS TO THE CAUSE…
    Had enough YET , America ?

  6. Six dead, ten injured in mass in mass shooting in California. Why wasn’t this all over the major news networks for days like all other mass shootings? Why weren’t all the Democrats using this event to call for gun control?
    Two reasons:

    1. The victims and the killers were black
    2. At least one of the killers was a violent criminal that should have been in jail but was released early.

    Sound familiar? Doesn’t fit the white racist narrative so bury it.

  7. Capital Punishment Needs to be Expanded to ANY Violent Crime! It also Needs to be Swiftly Applied!

  8. One of the problems is semantics. It should be the VICTIMS Justice System, or the Criminal Punishment System. We should also return to the death penalty for crimes involving the death of a victim. That would probably not stop the criminal behavior, since they don’t think about the outcome of their actions, but it would reduce the number of criminals over time, and free up space in our prison system for less violent criminals. We in South Carolina are actually looking into returning to hanging violent, convicted criminals. I can’t wait.
    SUPPORT THE 2nd!!
    Making good people helpless will not make bad people harmless.
    KAG Trump 2024 (or sooner)

  9. My disabled son lost a rental property a few years ago when a gang of Samoans squatted in the house and started tearing it up. When we contacted the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s office to report the crime we were told by a responding deputy to “let it go” because these guys were too dangerous to mess with. Perhaps we are headed back to the “bad old days” of “building back better.”

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