Smiley Martin, 27, was released from prison in February after serving less than half of his 10-year sentence for punching and flogging his girlfriend while she was hiding in her closet, despite calls from a Sacramento County attorney. “It must not be released as it poses a significant, unreasonable security risk to the community.” Just weeks later, he and his brother, 26-year-old Dandrae Martin, reportedly got involved in a gang exchange of gunfire in central Sacramento in the early hours of April 3, leaving six people dead and 12 others injured. . The tragedy is just the latest example of what happens when society fails to punish recurring violent offenders, Sacramento County Sheriff Scott Jones told Fox News Digital. “The best predictor of future behavior is the behavior of the past, and violent people will become violent when they go out, and we’ve seen that here,” Jones said. “Every crime has a victim and these victims are gathered, sometimes insignificant and sometimes catastrophic, as we saw in Sacramento [on April 3]. This is the last, but unfortunately it will not be the last. “Because if we do not change the way California and the rest of the nation deal with criminals, then that’s just going to be an ongoing trend.” This February 6, 2022 detention photo provided by the California Department of Correction and Rehabilitation shows Smiley Allen Martin, two days before he was released from Sacramento County on a charge of bodily harm and assault. cause serious bodily injury. (California Department of Correction and Rehabilitation via AP) Martin has a long criminal record dating back to before his 2017 arrest and subsequent conviction for assaulting his girlfriend. SACRAMEDO SHOOTINGS 5 SUMMARIES PARTICIPATE, POLICE SAYS “WEAPON VIOLENCE IS AT THE CENTER OF THIS TRAGEDY” He was arrested in January 2013 for possessing a gun and two cartridges full of 25 rounds, which he tried to dispose of when police contacted him. A judge sentenced him to suspension and provincial imprisonment in that case. Then in November 2013, Martin and three other suspects broke into a Walmart and robbed the $ 2,800 electronics store. An investigation revealed his involvement in two other robberies that month and he was sentenced to two years in prison. Three years later, in November 2016, Martin gave police a false name and tried to flee when they said he was being held. The attack on his girlfriend, whom the prosecutor said he encouraged to become a prostitute, came six months later. “Martin has repeatedly shown that he can not follow the laws or conditions imposed on him by the court,” Sacramento County Deputy Attorney General Danielle Abildgaard wrote in a letter opposing his release last year. “His background shows that he will follow his own personal agenda regardless of the consequences and regulatory constraints imposed on him.” WITNESSES DESCRIBE CHAOS SCENE DURING CALIFORNIA MASS SHOOTING: “ONE IS RUNNING INSIDE THE OTHER” Martin was released early from prison in February after being awarded 508-day credits for his time in Sacramento County Jail, as well as other credits after serving sentence 57, a law passed by California voters in 2016. to give “non-violent” criminals a chance to shave off their sentence. Jones cited laws such as Proposal 57 to release violent offenders from prison, arguing that Americans now have a collective amnesia over tough anti-crime policies that have reduced crime in recent decades. LOS ANGELES ARREST SUSPECT OF TAKING HOME AFTER RELEASED EARLY FROM PRISON “In the late ’80s and early’ 90s, violent crime in California and across the country was so ugly that it led to things like three strikes, gang reinforcements, gun improvements, things to do with violence. out of control that was happening. Well, that has led, at least in California, and I think as a nationwide trend to a reduction in violent crime over the last two or three decades, it has worked. “But people have little memory and they say, ‘Well, since we’re not so violent anymore, we do not need these things,’ without realizing the cause and effect, that these things actually reduce violent crime,” Jones said. . “As we move away from these things, as we move away from three strikes, as we move away from improvements, as we let people get out of jail, as we begin to treat criminals as victims and victims as criminals, it is entirely predictable what happens. , and we see it playing “. Martin is no exception to his parole. Of the 4,070 inmates convicted in Sacramento and released between January 2019 and May 2021, more than 1,300 served less than half of their sentences, according to the Sacramento County Attorney.
CLICK HERE TO RECEIVE THE FOX NEWS APPLICATION Homicides, meanwhile, have risen at the same time. Sacramento recorded 55 homicides in 2021, an increase of almost 31% compared to 2020, according to Sacramento Police. In four other big cities in California – Los Angeles, Auckland, San Diego and San Francisco – homicides rose 17% last year, according to a preliminary analysis by California Institute of Public Policy. The Associated Press contributed to this report.