Karla Dominguez testified in court that Ibrahim Bouaichi raped her. He was released from jail due to coronavirus concerns. Now Karla Dominguez is dead.
California is trying to reduce its prison population by expediting the early release of 18,000 inmates after Covid-19 outbreaks ran rampant through corrections facilities with over 4,000 convicts and prison employees infected.
Advocates and lawmakers have pushed hard for compassionate releases of inmates that are high-risk for virus complications, which allowed a man serving a 125-year sentence to go free, after firebombing a house while his ex-wife and two children slept. His ex-wife said it isn’t fair to her family, or society that a “dangerous person” was released and feels like she’s “the one in prison” now.
With a 49% re-arrest rate for criminal offenders, she has every right to be scared. Considering Los Angeles City Council has cut the police budget by $150 million and BLM advocates are proposing to defund the department by 90%, law-abiding citizens of L.A. should be afraid too.
The state has already faced blowback from its $0 bail policy fiasco, which was instituted in April and ended in June when many of the offenders released were rearrested despite “careful review” of their cases.
A man that battered a relative in April was re-incarcerated in July for robbing an armored truck and managed to lead police on a fugitive hunt after he escaped from a detention center a day later. Clearly the review process didn’t have a provision to protect the public from repeat violent offenders.
As civil unrest rages across the nation and police departments continue to be crippled by lawmakers, homicide rates have spiked 24% in 2020. It doesn’t seem like an idyllic time to be freeing prison-hardened convicts into the powder keg that is our brave new world.
Across the country, early releases of prisoners totaled over 100,000 between March and June, and reduced bail for coronavirus risk has become the go-to argument for defense attorneys. Ibrahim Bouaichi was jailed without bond in October 2019, but in April his lawyer petitioned for his release due to the “danger” the virus presented to him and other inmates.
On July 29, he shot and killed Karla Dominguez outside of her apartment. Days later Bouaichi led police on a car chase that resulted in a crash when he shot himself during the pursuit. The only danger coronavirus has presented to the corrections system is the autonomy to release violent criminals into American society.
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