Remove career criminals

Sat., April 4, 2015

After reading about the career criminal who has 31 felony convictions, and the next day reading another about a person with 39 convictions, I would like to propose we enact a “32 strikes-and-you’re-out” law.

I think it would work much better than the catch and release law that we currently have.

It would help in lowering the total number of crimes, reduce the caseloads in our courts and free up our hard-working police force so they are not spending all their time arresting the same people over and over again, only to have them back on the streets before the paperwork is done.

So do you think someone that’s been arrested over 30 times will ever learn a lesson? It’s time to get them off our streets.

Ron West

Spokane

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