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There\u2019s no better place to get some ironic inadvertent humor than the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. If I want something to shake my head and laugh at, there aren\u2019t any better sources to check than the good \u2018ol AJC.\u00a0 Sadly however, today\u2019s source of ATLOL is going to be behind the upcoming paywall, and won\u2019t be accessible in two more days.\u00a0 However, that in itself is going to be a great source of humor, because there\u2019s no way that people are going to subscribe for AJC content online, and it\u2019ll only be a matter of time before myAJC.com falls flat on its face and is relegated into having to provide its content for free again.<\/span><\/p>\n But anyway, today\u2019s topic of inadvertent ironic humor comes courtesy of the Fulton County Police Department and their officers\u2019 propensity to no-show in court on dates in which they summon perpetrators to defend themselves in the court of law.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n This is a problem because when the prosecuting police officers do not show in court, then the case, just about no matter what it is, is thrown out and dismissed.\u00a0 This is a problem, because it\u2019s reported that over the span of the last three-plus years, Fulton County has had over 1,800 cases thrown out and dismissed due to the subpoenaed officer failing to show up to court to confirm the prosecution. This is a problem because 1,800 cases thrown out means 1,800 instances of court fees not being paid, which in itself is roughly around $250,000 of state revenue, not including whatever penalty fees, fines and bonds that guilty parties are required to pay if actually sentenced.\u00a0 This is a problem because cases as innocuous as traffic violations, as well as\u00a0cases as severe as hit-and-runs, domestic abuse, molestation, and malicious violence<\/strong>, are dismissed without any punishment, because the appropriate officers fail to show up to court.<\/span><\/p>\n I find these statistics to be baffling sure, but at the same time, I can\u2019t say that I\u2019m entirely surprised.\u00a0 Atlanta\u2019s a crooked city to begin with, and as much as I love this place and call it home, let\u2019s face it, the place is corrupt, compromised, and completely run by greedy, misguided parties.\u00a0 The ineptitude of the police is about as surprising as Jodi Arias being found guilty of murder, and it\u2019s just another instance of a city that continuously cries poor that really has fewer parties to blame than themselves for not capitalizing on such free-money streams such as collecting on court fees and fines.<\/span><\/p>\n Obviously, I\u2019m no expert on law enforcement, but I have unfortunately been the recipient of court-ordered appearances before.\u00a0 It was my understanding back when these incidents happened, that the officers deliberately set aside dates in advance for their court appearances, and anyone they happened to ticket and order to appear in court would be summoned for these particular dates.\u00a0 And it\u2019s not like they didn\u2019t give people fair warning; it\u2019s like when I got pulled over in North Carolina by Robocop in a November, he told me, and it was written on the ticket, that I was supposed to appear in court the following January.\u00a0 And when I showed up to court in January, there was Robocop in the box with several other officers, and the judge systematically went through the list and asked what we plead, and then we paid our court fees and were off on our merry way.<\/span><\/p>\n With no tracking or accountability measures in place, as it\u2019s revealed in the article, Atlanta-Fulton County police clearly have zero care for punishing those who break the law.\u00a0 It\u2019s like they\u2019re content to stay on the streets and hand out tickets and court-orders, to prove that they\u2019re doing their job on a daily basis, but they\u2019re too lazy, negligent, or ambivalent to actually follow through in the court of law to make sure that these perpetrators are properly punished.\u00a0 And without true punishment, what\u2019s going to stop these law-breakers from committing crimes again, with knowledge that they stand a very high chance of getting away with it again?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There\u2019s no better place to get some ironic inadvertent humor than the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. If I want something to shake my head and laugh at, there aren\u2019t any better sources to check than the good \u2018ol AJC.\u00a0 Sadly however, today\u2019s source of ATLOL is going to be behind the upcoming paywall, and won\u2019t be accessible … Continue reading More Atlanta police fail<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[112,45,30,15,143],"class_list":["post-36163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-crime","tag-fail","tag-justice","tag-og","tag-ohatlanta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36163"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36164,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36163\/revisions\/36164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}