I should start a category of, "did you know?" posts.
Every day I come across a statistic that surprises me. Sometimes I forget it as my brain runs low on memory. But occasionally something will prompt it back, like this.
Ford was alleged to have shot a man in the back of his knee, shattering the kneecap, before telling two of his sons and a nephew to finish the injured man off. They refused and the man survived.
A jury acquitted Ford of the charges relating to that incident but a retrial was ordered on some other firearm-related incidents.
He was on bail awaiting that trial when he died.
The interesting fact?
Only 48 percent of prosecuted violent charges result in a conviction. Violent offences are the least likely to result in conviction.
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3 comments:
One down, quite a few to go!
The reason so many violent offenses don't result in a prosecution, is that so often the 'victim' won't press charges against her 'man'
Oswald, Do you know if jury intimidation is a factor?
Probably.
Scribble- faces do that to a lot of people.
Further on convictions for violence, it isn't as bad out there as people might think. much of the violence is committed by the criminal classes against others in that scumculture. Those sorts won't cooperate with the police- as has been seen very publiclly, lately.
Thus no conviction.
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