From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Aug 05 2002 - 10:55:33 MDT
-- Lee Corbin <lcorbin@tsoft.com> wrote:
> Charlie Stross wrote
>
> > (Note that in the UK, the clear up and conviction
> rate for murder
> > is somewhere over 90% -- it's the one crime that
> the police throw an
> > anything-it-takes budget at.)
>
> Lucky you; I don't know what the rate in the U.S.
> is, but it can't
> be anything like that.
It's about that here in the US, but ONLY for those
cases that are actually brought to trial. As a
percentage of all cases, the percent is much lower,
and I suspect it is the same in the UK.
>
> People convicted of murder in the U.S. are often
> perfectly free
> after serving their sentence. Furthermore, they can
> easily move
> to the other side of the continent. Maybe it's just
> easier for
> police in the UK to keep an eye on them.
Actually, anybody paroled on a felony is not
'perfectly free' here in the US. They must report
weekly or monthly to their parole officer, they can't
be found in the company of criminals, they and their
property can be searched at any time without a
warrant, they cannot keep and bear arms, and they
cannot move out of state without the approval of a
judge and they must notify their new state of
residence of their legal status, all of this for the
period of their parole, and some things for the rest
of their life.
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