Even in Texas, career criminals are allowed to roam free up to the point that they kill someone, proving that there needs to be a nationwide crackdown on crime to counter the national attitude shift toward criminal justice reform around 2018.
Hannah Rapp, a 26-year-old rising featherweight boxer, was killed while cycling with her boyfriend on Saturday. According to the Brazos County Sheriff’s Office, Charles Medina sped by the couple in his truck, nearly hitting them. After Rapp’s boyfriend raised his arms and yelled at Medina, the driver allegedly slammed on his brakes and accelerated in reverse toward the couple, striking and killing Rapp, authorities said.
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Of note here is that Medina has a long criminal record in Brazos County alone. This is the 13th time he’s been booked into the Brazos County jail since 2012, with a list of charges including the following: drug possession, assault, hit and run, reckless driving, criminal mischief, and something called “deadly conduct.” (According to Texas law, “deadly conduct” is when someone “recklessly engages in conduct that places another in imminent danger of serious bodily injury.”) How many times can one man be booked into jail with charges showing that he is incapable of operating as a member of society before he is not allowed to be released again?
What makes this case even worse is that this is not Chicago, or New York City, or the state of California. This is Brazos County, a red county in Texas, which is a red state. What excuse does Brazos County or the state of Texas have for allowing someone like Medina to be roaming free after 12 prior bookings, to the point that he is out on the streets to allegedly kill a woman in a road rage incident?
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Around 2017, there was a nationwide criminal justice reform push, where state governments and Congress crafted laws designed to ease criminal sentences. This culminated in Congress passing the First Step Act, signed into law by President Donald Trump in 2018, and in a surge of progressive “prosecutors” coming to power in Democrat-run cities and counties across the country. While some of those progressive “prosecutors” have been run out of office in the years since, the effects of the movement have cemented themselves into law and the chemistry of the courts.
The toleration of career criminals over the past decade needs nothing less than a national movement similar to that criminal justice reform push. Through state laws, prosecutorial decisions, and the discretion of soft-on-crime judges, jails and prisons have turned into revolving doors for too many career criminals. Allowing criminals to rack up “minor” crimes up until the point that they kill someone (allegedly, in Medina’s case) is not acceptable, and the fact that this is even happening in Texas proves just how deep the problem goes, and just how large-scale the solution needs to be.
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[ H/T Washington Examiner ]
