Matthew Cate, a lawyer appointed by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger as Secretary of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, has been the foremost defender of CDCR’s failing practices. Initially, he heaped praise on CDCR for its handling of the infamous Garrido kidnapping and rape case. Now he’s praising the state-sanctioned jail break which begins today.
As I’ve said many times, THE ONLY DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A LAWYER AND A LIAR IS THE SPELLING.
CATE HAILS MASS RELEASE AS "LANDMARK ACHIEVEMENT" IN PUBLIC SAFETY
By Paco
PacoVilla Corrections blog
January 25, 2010
CALIFORNIA INMATE RELEASE PLAN BEGINS
By Sam Stanton
The Sacramento Bee
January 25, 2010
The state's controversial plan to reduce its prison population by 6,500 inmates over the next year begins today, with victims and law enforcement groups once again warning it will increase crime...Corrections director Matthew Cate has called the plan a "landmark achievement" in increasing public safety because it calls for parole agents to focus on higher risk parolees and cuts their average workloads from 70 parolees to 48.
Under the plan, convicts not subject to parole supervision still will be subject to law enforcement searches. Opponents say that is meaningless in practice.
"The one condition imposed on the released inmates, that they may be searched without a warrant, is a pretense that there are at least some limitations and oversight in place," Paul M. Weber, president of the Los Angeles Police Protective League, said in a statement issued last week.
"However, since local law enforcement doesn't even know who these inmates are, there is no substance to the search condition."
...Sacramento County Sheriff John McGinness said the result will be increased costs for local jails and courts.
"We're on the verge of a real crisis in criminal justice in California," he said.
Paco says:
Insofar as the SecrAttorney knows nothing about public safety, it is possible he really believes what he is saying. Yet, he is, first and foremost, a lawyer--Parsing words and misrepresenting the truth is what they do.
Thus, the question arises: Is Matt Cate a bald-faced liar or simply an idiot? Granted, the two aren't mutually exclusive: plenty of liars are idiots and vice versa. In any case, the math doesn't compute.
CLEARLY, releasing 6,500 inmates EARLY and keeping them off [parole] agent caseloads couldn't possibly result in the caseload reductions Cate touts. This isn't "fuzzy math"-- It is an outright lie.
According to CDCR's own reports, the parole population was 137,765 as of 12/31/2009. How can a reduction in the parole population of some 5% result in 30% reductions in parole agent caseloads?
SecrAttorney Cate is lying.
What else is new?
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