I’ve read today’s N&R lead editorial twice and I’m totally missing the logic.
The editorial supports the bill filed by state Sen. Phil Berger that would authorize all law-enforcement officers to conduct warrentless searches on probationers —- which is fine. Such power would ostensibly uncover probation violations with the result being — as the N&R puts it —- “the best possible outcome for everyone: less crime.”
Yet the N&R bases its support for the bill on the premise that the “way to fix North Carolina’s probation system is not to send more criminals to prison” because “the state can’t afford to substantially increase the prison population.”
But what exactly happens when someone violates probation? They go to prison, right?
And does the N&R think “less crime” happens? Put it this way: If our man D. Eddie Majors were in prison instead of being a “client” with the Greensboro Police Department’s Violent Crime Task Force, then he wouldn’t have been robbing banks and shooting at police officers. That’s a fact.
Help me out if I’m missing something here.
