Laws All States Should Consider

[ScottKaltbier]

In cold cases where the case has been over a certain amount of time.

Considering the parents lifespan, they should be given the legal right to know or have a way to do what the police have not done, and that the police have a limited statute of limitations that they can control a case where certain crimes are subject. I think that a simple law that mother or a father have the right to be handed over through discovery the entire case and able to investigate it from that point.

Maybe the parents have to give up a legal right to hold against the municipality any liabilities but the police are now able to accept and investigate new leads or evidence the parents find privately.

I was just wondering how difficult it would be to organize an effort to get a Websleuths.com member in each state to present a law that would give a relative that is legally related as their parents the right to request a complete casefile under certain rules that if broken or found the parents caused to harm the cases security would allow the case to be then closed due to the case being tainted.

I think that there is a way to make sure the parents at least get a chance to see what the police have and what the police believe happened but because of legal action cannot charge their main suspects.

The one thing that I think is used too much by authoritys is being able to make very general statements that provides a wide range of protection from their actions or holds them accountable to public criticism or public pressure.

If a person who is related by parents or directly as siblings are faced with the horror of the type where very brutal murders occur. Where these related family are not a suspect. That clearly are in the police controls and say 5 years or 10 years are only going to be solved by a confession. That only documents, reporting and facts are only available (nothing that privacy or forensics must be accessed of course), but giving them at least a right to be able to request a hearing that only the investigation and the family attend and a judge as witnesse. Presents the case and conclusion they believe to be what happened or what they are able to prove so far.

Maybe they will be happy with that and be at peace... maybe the presentation will give the police the ability to make a case to the judge that will help them where a prosecutor might be holding the case up.
Lot of times a case might be a simple relations interdepartment politically motivated reason they cannot get the case forward..
When a case involves opening up a politicians risk or the case has certain elements that if allowed might cause the public to side with justice over power or that political office gains huge leverage by keeping certain cases unsolved so that a few wealthy people are happy to help the political process by supporting and hosting and volunteers their resources. Everyone knows that in the political process that can make a huge difference in what cases interest the municipality that will prosecute that case.
A law can be made that fairly balances each party and allows relatives a chance to be presented with a case investigation can present that the prosecutor can watch and the parents the jury and the judge deciding the next step or available legal action that the judge can issue authority.
That would allow the investigator to force the prosecutor to take cases that politically hurts their win/loss or damages their respective suppporters favor and loose interest paying for influence power depends upon.

 

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Laws I'd like to see:

No criminal should profit from articles, books, movie, interviews, products in any way related to the crime.

Any & all proceeds to the victim(s) famil(ies) or charity of their choice.

Apparently some states do have this.

JMHO YMMV LRR

 

[ScottKaltbier]

Laws I'd like to see:

No criminal should profit from articles, books, movie, interviews, products in any way related to the crime.

Any & all proceeds to the victim(s) famil(ies) or charity of their choice.

Apparently some states do have this.

JMHO YMMV LRR

Well I think laws do exist that do keep certain criminals from this... but high profile crimes and criminals find a way around laws due to the lucrative benefits books and movies rights will give anyone who can publish or create movies... You see if some huge movie studio makes a movie about say Ted Bundy whoever owns the rights to his personal life hhas to sign off on the use where profits are made. Someone in most cases like this hold a right to the use of anything that that criminal is portrayed as in the movie or books.
I am sure that due to their power that movies and books have been made and money from their name has been made that some criminals never saw any money.
I dont agree that a criminal profits from what they did... but I also think if money is made from what they did by dramatizing it and making money from it... the criminal has a right to his life and how its portrayed and should be able to choose something like giving the profits to maybe the victims familys or a charity. I think the reason these current laws are more created by powerful publishing or movie industrys corporations so they can make money off the sensationalization and dramatizations of horrible acts these criminals do.
If money is made off these acts then the person who did them should have a say in how they are portrayed in these entertainment industry money making cash cows that certain criminals become to societys and part of history.
What I suggest in laws is that crimes and the way justice works is very much in the hands of 2 people. The investigator by his own self closes the case he is assigned to and when he has the evidence and the criminal and the cases written up reasons... he/she turns it over to the DA who then can keep it for however long until they are satisfied and take that case to a "Grand JURY" that decides if the case can be indicted. Now in certain cases where a very rich or powerful person can talk to the detectives or the chief of police or the DA a case can be shelved and the powerful can get away with all kinds of stuff... I mean rich people pay off victims of crimes all the time... its illegal for a simple citizen to do because we lack influence or leverages that give them advantages... I think that laws and regulations are mostly written to keep citizens from holding leverages or influence over crimes they are faced with.
If we get robbed and money stolen from a safe and a bunch of other valuables....
We report the crime...
The police then investigate... and find that the money bought a car and the gold was sold and the criminal bought some guns...
They arrest the guy and they confiscate everything that the criminal has...
They send him to jails and make money off the criminal's housing and feeding...
Then they convict him and the state makes money from that..
The confiscated items are either made part of the police department's assets and made use of... or auctioned off and that money is now the police department's budget and about 70% of a police department's budgets depend upon confiscated property seized in crime investigations...
Meanwhile, the stuff you lost is gone... since the stuff you lost was used to buy a car that property is not yours... the real issue is why do no laws exist that gives a victim of that crime the rights to be paid back with seized assets or property that the investigation confiscated???
Well that's because the police and criminal laws are more to benefit and fund the industry that "Fights Crime" or "War On Drugs" creates.
Laws are very much for funding all the things... jobs... resources... budgets... systems.... reasoning... to get more and more every year,,,
Crime goes up or stays in a very close to budget requirements but never seems to me that any of the industry budgets are ever used to develop or research ways to lower crimes or create systems that make certain crimes very hard to commit.
That industry does not want to legalize drugs because the huge part of their industry is criminalization of it very easy ways to make huge amounts of money from confiscating money and assets that drug dealers have...
Laws are creating ways that the industry can take as much out of society as they can... laws are made to give them rights to take all this...
I think all property or assets that police confiscate should fund a pool that pays the victims of the crimes that these criminals had seized from them and pays their victims...
Right now as soon as a victim reports a crime they are just legally giving the industry a right to all the money that the industry will make from the process of "Justice and Law".