[GPSCC-chat] Proposed increase in San Jose Police budget from 30 to 40% of general revenue

[Brian]

A case in point was the Pennsylvania "kids for cash" scandal. 

 Luzerne County Senior Judge Michael Conahan shut down the state juvenile detention center in 2002 and 
used County  funds pay for a multimillion-dollar 
lease for the private facilities. 

Judge Mark Ciavarella and Conahan corruptly and fraudulently 
"created the potential for an increased number of juvenile offenders to 
be sent to juvenile detention facilities," federal court documents 
alleged. Children would be placed in private detention centers, under 
contract with the court, to increase the head count. In exchange, the 
two judges secretly received more than $2.6 million in kickbacks, 
prosecutors said.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/02/23/pennsylvania.corrupt.judges/



Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2014 09:47:14 -0800
From: Rob at MeansForDemocracy.org
To: sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org
Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Proposed increase in San Jose Police budget from 30 to 40% of general revenue


  
    
  
  
    Spencer,

    

    I would submit that consolidation of ownership of prisons - and the
    attendant concentration of power and profit - was the driving force.
    "Follow the money" is still sage advice. The mainstream (lamestream)
    commercial media is simply the handmaiden, delivering the
    appropriate soothing message (i.e. party line) when necessary, but
    mostly just infotainment and fear mongering. If you follow the
    money, you will find that all these huge corporations have
    interlocking Boards of Directors. Which leads to corporate
    group-think - which dooms our planet. 

    

    

    On 03/02/2014 10:23 PM,
      sosfbay-discuss-request at cagreens.org wrote:

    
    
             The incarceration rate in the US today is 5 times what it was 40 
years ago.  No change in crime correlates with that.  I know of only one 
change during these past 40 years that can explain that: Consolidation 
of ownership of the mainstream commercial media with a massive reduction 
in investigative journalism.

      -- 

        
          Rob Means for Milpitas City Council

          http://MeansForDemocracy.org     FPPC # (pending)

          1421 Yellowstone Ave., Milpitas, CA 95035-6913

          408-262-0420h, 408-262-8975w, Rob at MeansForDemocracy.org

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