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Criminals Escape Fees in San Francisco

By Kent Scheidegger et al.

An article in today's San Francisco Chronicle addresses San Francisco's inability to collect fines, victim's restitution and court-imposed fees from convicted criminals. The article can be found here. In his article, Jaxon Van Derbeken points out that only recently has California forced San Francisco to attempt to collect the fees that convicts owe. California recently forced San Francisco courts to act, because the Probation Department (which had its hands full monitoring 7,500 felony and misdemeanor offenders) had failed to establish a system of collecting the $9.6 million in unpaid victim's restitution fees and fines from criminals who had been ordered by courts to pay. The article notes that "court culture" largely determines the importance placed on collecting victims' restitution...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime and Consequences on March 10, 2008 (boomark / email).