38 arrests, 17 felony convictions, and he was walking around free and beat her almost to death.

[MadDAsHell]

http://www.sacbee.com/news/nation-world/national/article86582392.html

Our criminal justice system sucks, and the courts have responsibility for what happened to this woman. A person with 17 felony convictions should not have been breathing free air; any half sense of justice would have kept him off the street and out of her home that night.

The judges who oversaw his previous cases ought to have their names printed in every newspaper in the country so we know who shouldn't be retained next election cycle.

[scscholar]

1. The police should be ashamed of themselves

I guess giving parking and speeding tickets is safer and more profitable.

[MadDAsHell]

2. Actually sounds like police did their jobs. 38 arrests, 17 felony convictions. It's the courts...

that let this woman down.

[Travis_0004]

3. What did the police do wrong?

The police did their job. The judges are the ones who fucked this one up.

[MH1]

4. The guy has been arrested 38 times. I'd say the cops have done a lot.

The ONLY thing they should be ashamed of - maybe - is that one cop is apparently on tape using a racial slur when they arrested this piece of scum. That could risk blowing the case. Apparently the evidence was strong enough in this case that it didn't, but it's just so unnecessary. There are plenty of colorful adjectives for lowlife dirtbag pieces of human excrement (see?), that the cops should ditch anything in their vocabulary that could be called racist.

[NaturalHigh]

9. What more should the cops have done?

They arrested him thirty-eight times!

[Eleanors38]

12. Looks like the cops did their job. Repeatedly.

[rurallib]

5. prisons are filled with drug offenders

[MadDAsHell]

6. That is certainly the case sometimes, yes. But I think in this case that's just an excuse.

This guy has 38 arrests and 17 felony convictions. This is judicial laziness at its worst.

[Eleanors38]

11. Veteran felons gain experience and power within the judicial system.

[cwydro]

7. What utter scum.

Big brave man beating a woman in front of a child. May he rot in prison.

[NaturalHigh]

8. "Custis won't be eligible for parole for more than 60 years."

About time. This guy should have been permanently out of commission years ago.

[Eleanors38]

10. To use an academic and scientific term to describe this example of social malfeasance...

coddling.