Probation & Parole

[Holiday]

Allow the DAs office to make Probation a condition of plea deals moving forward.

Then, create a new full-time division of the NYPD dedicated to Probation & Parole services which would do weekly check-ins/interviews with parolees.

This would help as it would give second chances to criminals who value their character's progress and would allow the DAs office more wiggle room when enforcing punishments.

50 or more years obviously wouldn't be allowed, but anything in the range of 30-49 years would be eligible.

[Auxiliary]

+1

A certain SUB-division of the NYPD would be cool for Probation, but the issue I'm having is what the role of the Probation Officers would do. It sounds like to me that being a Probation Officer would just be another IA bureau to do a useless interview about whether or not a person is employed to a front-business for their mafia of choice.

The only good roleplay that probation could make, in my opinion, adding a lot of time to their sentence to act as a sort of plea deal version of the Reoffender's Clause. If a person violates their probation, their full plea deal will have to be the amount of time charged in court, or if taken to court, their original charges plus 5 or 10 years to really make it sting when you fuck up on probation, which could often mean a life sentence for some people.

 

[Akira]

My nigga Eugene keeps coming up with ideas over and over again MY GUY is a genius bro +1

[RevampedRebel]

It's all fun and games until you have to actually run this thing and have active people deal with it and do it in an unbiased way without ooc influence. Ask why we don't do elections anymore.

[bingus]

 

3 hours ago, RevampedRebel said:

It's all fun and games until you have to actually run this thing and have active people deal with it and do it in an unbiased way without ooc influence. Ask why we don't do elections anymore.

I agree with Revamped. Sure, probation and parole may look appealing on paper, but at the end of the day you are making more players do more work for an outcome that may not be worth that time or effort.
 

“Hello I’m in jail for 30 minutes, can I be released on parole after 10 minutes?”

“Sure, but we have to schedule weekly checkups to make sure you’re doing good otherwise we’ll send you back to prison for maybe 40 minutes.”

At that point just sit there for the full 30 minutes and get some lunch or dinner or take a shit.

 

However, that isn’t to say that I’m against other sentencing alternatives in general. We are actually working on a Bill for exactly that. The difference is these alternatives will be considered and imposed by a judge (already their job!) and probably won’t have any lingering work to do afterwards.

 

There are lots of technical and small details to consider, especially reworking the entire “reoffenders clause”, but that’s the general gist of it.

[Geo_Zeus]

1 hour ago, bingus said:

 

I agree with Revamped. Sure, probation and parole may look appealing on paper, but at the end of the day you are making more players do more work for an outcome that may not be worth that time or effort.
 

“Hello I’m in jail for 30 minutes, can I be released on parole after 10 minutes?”

“Sure, but we have to schedule weekly checkups to make sure you’re doing good otherwise we’ll send you back to prison for maybe 40 minutes.”

At that point just sit there for the full 30 minutes and get some lunch or dinner or take a shit.

 

However, that isn’t to say that I’m against other sentencing alternatives in general. We are actually working on a Bill for exactly that. The difference is these alternatives will be considered and imposed by a judge (already their job!) and probably won’t have any lingering work to do afterwards.

 

There are lots of technical and small details to consider, especially reworking the entire “reoffenders clause”, but that’s the general gist of it.

What dingus said, i'll just take the 30 years thank you very much and never talk to me again