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If You Do the Crime, You Do the Time

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That's the title of an OpEd in the Summit (CO) Daily News by retired police officer Gary Lindstrom.Last week I read a headline that said, ?Senate committee approves death penalty for sex assaults on kids.? The senate committee said in effect that anyone who sexually assaults a child under the age of 12 should be executed. I think that the committee that passed that bill needs to rethink what they did.I was a police officer for most of the time from 1964 to 1995. I will assure the committee and anyone else that the seriousness of the sentence has little or no impact on whether or not a criminal will commit a crime. They just never think about it. If it were true then there would be very few crimes committed.I worked in the Fifth Judicial District Office of the District Attorney in 1976, 1977 and 1978...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on March 21, 2008 (boomark / email).