A NEW JAIL FOR THE CITY OF LOS ANGELES

POLICE SOFTWARE 

by David 

March 22, 2015

A NEW JAIL FOR THE CITY OF LOS ANGELES 

I was working on some law and order issues today and wanted to contact the new Sheriff of Los Angeles. I stopped to get some information and remembered he was working on getting a new jail system together. I thought it would be practical to help him accomplish this task. 

I realized there are so many reasons for the people of this county to consider the value of such a substantial endeavor. The cost is high, it obviously would be. The reality of the dangers of the old jail are so real and troubling it would frighten a reasonable and sensible person to think of the dangers to any of their family if one or more of them might find them selves in the jail. It should also create a certain apprehension with in the mind of a reasonable person to think of other people and their families, or the people that work in the jail, that are subject to those conditions. It is an old dangerous place with many troubled people.

I am a publisher and I want to take the time to make some suggestions for our new Sheriff about the community getting together to help make one of the most problematic groups of the people in Los Angeles, the people in jail, a place that could bring our criminal holding system into the 21st. century. This should be one of the most important tools our Sheriff has. It should be a standard for Justice in America. We are after all one of the most interesting cities in the world. This city leads mankind in so many ways as a center of logic, good judgement and good taste. We have a film industry here that could be meaningful in this endeavor. Their suggestions are worth more than I could say, many of their ideas make billions of dollars a year. Something the Sheriff will also need some quality solutions for, funding. 

Another thought I wanted to mention here was related to safety, a constant concern in any jail system. Not everyone that goes through this part of the LA system will think logically of the people of Los Angeles. If we make this part of our city one of the most rational in America it will reflect that aspect in an interesting way

Size and weight should be a factor involved in helping to determine some of the safety issues.  If you put small or short people in with tall or over weight people they are just more likely to get taken advantage of more often, and in a jail it usually goes much farther than that. Space could be saved also by evaluating the size of the people that pass through the jail that are under 6 foot or over 185 lbs, and build accommodating features for those numbers, small, average and large. If Los Angeles thought about this we could begin an important new effort towards a better mind set for those people on the wrong side of the law. Rather than a hurt, angry or frightened person or group that may kill a law officer or member of the community. Good luck Sheriff on an excellent idea and a great tenure. 

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