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The Tennessee Conservative Staff –
As the Memphis area continues to battle against rising crime statistics, State Senator Brent Taylor (R-Memphis-District 31) announced his plan to prioritize legislation that would help fight crime across the state.
Taylor has compiled a list of tasks that he wants to see accomplished in the upcoming legislative session that is slated to begin in January. The following are some of those items:
• Close “loopholes” regarding aggravated assault
• Complete the “Blended Sentencing Law”
• Criminalize felony possession of a stolen firearm
• Hold parents responsible for “criminal acts” committed by their children
• Enhance the right to report shoplifting to police
• Limit local agencies’ ban on minor traffic offense stops
• Reform bail guidelines, including setting bail minimums, removing “financial condition” from consideration of bail amounts, and rotating the oversight of the judicial commissioner program
• Require that prosecution of local law enforcement officers be handled by an outside District Attorney
• Require that sheriffs provide notification to Immigration and Customs Enforcement if an illegal immigrant is taken into custody
Memphis residents say this may help to curb the problems, but some still believe that more can be done.
Barbara Love, founder of The Love Foundation, works with individuals who have been victims of violence. Love says much of the crime stems from a lack of caring individuals in the lives of these offenders.
“They going to gangs and going and destroying things and running through our city rabid because they feel no one cares about them. So, we want to tap into counselors,” Love stated.
Taylor plans to start work on his proposals when the General Assembly begins in the second week of January.
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Pr 22:6 Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
Laws only offer “punishment” if violated,
God offers a “Reward” for obeying.
Put God back in schools if you want to see a reduction in crime.
If we’re going to hold parents responsible for the “criminal acts” of their children, shouldn’t the criminals teachers be involved in that responsibility? After all, in most cases they have custody of the child a lot more hours than working parents. Maybe if the schools weren’t so enraptured with being “woke”, behavioral training could be re-instated in the classroom. Learning to live within a community is part of growing up and a great deal of that learning takes place in the classroom. There are definitely parents that should be held accountable for anti-social or criminal act of their kids as they encourage it by their own lack of action. Making a “blanket” one size fits all law is part of the stupidity that causes a lot of problems, many more than they solve.
Simply EFFECTIVELY and promptly punish wrongdoing. Dimmercrap and RINO criminal coddling is KILLING US.
Sad he doesn’t believe in the presumption of innocence or the US Constitution.
When the inevitable and justifiable vigilantism occurs just go easy on the vigilantes. That’ll take care of the crime problem.