Sentencing in MD seems to be stiffer than DC

Next time do it at night man, you'd only get life. Now your corpse is gonna have to spend a quarter century in a cell.

Nearly half a century. He'll have to serve at least 20 years before he'd be eligible for parole. Then he'd still have to serve the additional 25 years.

Sounds great, right?

And yet study, after study, after study has shown that stiffer penalties do little to curb crime.

https://www.ojp.gov/pdffiles1/nij/247350.pdf

Editing to add: I love how Reddit is all about data and then when you bring up data that goes against their instincts on criminal justice it’s just straight vitriol and downvotes.

Puts him away for a while though so he can't kill anyone else. Not like DC where nothing happens to criminals and they're free to carjack and assault and rob over and over again.

And yet, recidivism is more likely for violent criminals who use firearms. Nearly 70% of offenders commit another violent crime.

https://www.ussc.gov/research/research-reports/recidivism-among-federal-firearms-offenders

So yea, it does sound great.

Good thing Maryland creates consequences for violent criminals.

Just a reminder that DC’s Youth Rehabilitation Act allows for any violent criminal age 25 or younger to face little to no jail time and that many individuals diverted from jail went on to victimize more people.

According to this study, it’s great.

https://www.nber.org/digest/oct98/sentence-enhancements-reduce-crime

It's not so much about stopping someone from killing as it is stopping them from killing again.

LOL from the Freakanomics guy back in 1998.

Meanwhile in DC shooting a man in broad daylight while he is carrying his 5month and 6 year old is only 13 years…

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/01/25/jarrell-david-harris-sedrick-miller-sentencing/

Sickening.

I’m not bringing vitriol. I’m also aware there’s conflicting data in regards to sentencing. There isn’t though, to my knowledge, conflicting information regarding gun violence offenses. Aren’t you at least open to other data which doesn’t jive with your own instincts?

This right here. I don't care what some study says, if he's in jail for life, he's in jail for life among his peers. One less person we have to worry about out there trying to kill other people.

MD is stricter on many fronts. In my area, construction and homebuilding - they don't play around.

There isn’t conflicting data on sentencing. The modern studies all say the same thing, and it is logically true - do you know the penalty for grand larceny? Aggravated assault? No, of course you don’t. So how is a long potential sentence a deterrent?

I don’t have an instinct on this, I read the data and see what it says. And the modern studies all say the same thing: harsher penalties do not deter crime.

The YRA needs to be repealed. Anyone who commits a violent crime from 18-25 needs to be held fully accountable.

When it was first conceived and piloted in other cities, it was never supposed to apply to violent crimes. It was supposed to reduce the devastating lifelong impacts of imprisonment on young people making bad decisions with non-violent crimes.

DC took the YRA a step further and applied it to violent criminals, ensuring that there are no real consequences for gun crimes and violence.

That’s the funny thing about “progressives” who support gun laws: they refuse to accept that ENFORCING gun laws is part of the equation and that this includes punishment for criminals using illegal guns and committing crimes with guns.

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there is no way he didn’t give up someone/something else for that.

The article you linked to is very good - it's quite long - but very well researched and written. I didn't know anything about the Youth Rehabilitation Act until I read that article. Apparently the law stems from the 1940s and wasn't meant for violent crimes.

Glad this wasn't in DC. He would be back in 10

I urge every DC resident to read that article so they understand why this is happening. Young violent criminals plainly state that they keep carrying guns and committing crimes because they know there are no consequences.

I wish they’d update it with a more recent study. Here’s another article interviewing low income DC residents on how unfettered gun violence terrorizes their communities: Residents in NE Washington trapped by gunfire.

This study has numerous flaws that have been pointed out by successive researchers. https://www.jstor.org/stable/1147698

It’s not like he’s some high profile mobster. What information could possibly be worth that kind of leniency? Seems all too convenient considering DC’s worry about murder rates rising.

Your link has nothing to do with that assertion on that particular study.

No no. 10 to 13 years. He might do 6.

It is super disconcerting (unbelievable almost) that a 21-year-old can get caught for armed carjacking, get probation, get caught for armed robbery, get probation, then get caught for murder. To paraphrase a gentleman from the article "growing up poor is not a pass to be a violent criminal."

I was him a long life.