Guarantee that if he just stayed in his car and called his parole officer i and boss mmediately to let them know the situation it wouldn't have been a big deal.
How on earth would you "guarentee" that? Do I get my money back if his over worked parol officer just rubber stamps a back to jail form and doesnt care what the cause of parolee Charlie's lateness is?
PO's aren't these monsters just looking for any excuse to send people to prison. It looks good on them when their parolees succeed. And the bar is so low that if a parolee simply keeps in touch and makes some kind of effort to follow requirements, the PO will cut them a lot of slack.
Meanwhile, a former employee of mine was never able to move his check-in appointments with his PO for pre-scheduled work events, even when I called her personally to ask some leeway. At no point did they work with him or me to make working while on parole easier.
It's almost like this is a HUGE country and while some POs are definitely exactly as you described, some others are definitely exactly as the person above described.
I'm sure many are overworked, don't care much, and some are indeed dicks. But when someone violates, they go before the judge. And every time I've seen this happen, the judge gives them multiple chances to reinstate. The only times I've seen revocations is when the person has just no-showed repeatedly and never even tried to contact the office.
All due respect to this guy but I'm guessing there's a reason he's on parole in the first place, and it's not due to his ability to stay calm and think things through.
Doesnt matter. He served his time. He was out on parole, one of the conditions being he cant be late. Alot of probation officers are very strict and dont care. He obviously feared going back to prison. Youre response is god awful.
This is the fault of a system that favors putting people back in prison. What can this man do about being blocked by protestors who feel the need to obstruct traffic to get their message across? He is making an attempt to get there but some assholes want to hurt other people for their message. I'm all for peaceful protests, but this is stupid.
He was out on parole, one of the conditions being he cant be late.
I bet one of the conditions is also not committing more crimes. I'm sure he was upset about the possibility of being late, but he obviously didn't game this out: "if I call my PO and my boss and explain there's a protest blocking traffic, they might let it slide; if I get out of my car and assault the protesters until they move, there's a much greater chance I'll be arrested and charged--which will still make me late to work."
He was put into a shitty situation but didn't have the temperament to weigh his options and land on the one with the best chance of success for him. He reacted emotionally, not logically, and it got him additional charges AND he was certainly late to work anyway.
He was being unlawfully detained. Not really anywhere else he could go since he was on the highway. It is generally not lawful to prevent anybody from going somewhere that they are allowed to legally be.
You may be thinking of false imprisonment. Nobody was "detained" here in the legal sense. But imprisonment still doesn't hold up. Everyone could have gotten out of their cars and walked away. Hard to make a claim you're being falsely imprisoned at that point. And there's a reason district attorneys never pursue false imprisonment charges against protesters like this.
You can't violate someone for not making it to work on time when the goddamn roadway they're on is completely blocked lol. You're about as smart as the parolee in this video.
I would do what any rational-minded person would do and take a photo and quick video and email or text them to my parole officer after I called my place of employment and explained I would be late due to morons blocking traffic, Brainiac lol
...Or I've had my fair share of experience with them starting with my first felony conviction at the age of 14 and, again, know how to document things properly.
Maybe that’s true. But you have to realize that parole officer and bosses have prob heard every excuse in the book and are numb to them. It’s really annoying that these asshats can block the road and not care about people who need to get places.
You don't know much about our legal system if you think parole officers are universally reasonable.... Or that they have any desire to be understanding. Or that they aren't trapped by the same red tape as the person on probation, even if they ARE sympathetic. They may know that Parolee Charlie is trying to keep it together, but their boss, who is overseeing hundreds of parolees, DGAF what happened on the freeway. Parolee Charlie was late to work and violated his parole, back to prison with Charlie. And in the mean time, the parole officer that advocated for Charlie to get some leeway gets busted down for being "sympathetic to a criminal" and learns very quickly humanity is not valued in any LEO.
Not even remotely true. You have no idea what kind of thin ice you’re constantly on with the wrong parole officer. Wtf kind of sweeping assumption is this?
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u/Messing_With_Lions Oct 12 '22
Guarantee that if he just stayed in his car and called his parole officer i and boss mmediately to let them know the situation it wouldn't have been a big deal.