Let the crackdown begin....

Crosstika

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Roundup Nabs More Than 10,000 Fugitives

Thu Apr 14,12:52 PM ET





WASHINGTON - More than 10,000 fugitives, many wanted for violent crimes, were rounded up over the past week in a coordinated nationwide effort led by U.S. marshals.




Officers from 960 federal, state and local law enforcement agencies took part in the concentrated search, which coincided with Crime Victims Rights Week, officials said. The dragnet caught 10,340 people, some of whom had two or more outstanding arrest warrants, Justice Department officials said.

More than 150 who were arrested were wanted for murder, another 550 were sought on rape or sexual assault charges, and more than 600 had outstanding arrest warrants for armed robbery, officials said. Among those captured were 150 gang members and 100 unregistered sex offenders, they said.

One armed suspect was found beneath a trap door in his kitchen, they said.

Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and U.S. Marshals Service director Ben Reyna were to announce details of the roundup later Thursday.

Codenamed "Operation Falcon," the dragnet was the largest ever in numbers of arrests and involved local, state and federal authorities, said Marshals Service spokesman David Turner.

Turner said previous coordinated roundups resulted in arrests in the hundreds, but did not involve as many officers or agencies.

For all of last year, marshals arrested more than 36,000 people wanted on federal warrants, and worked with state and local authorities in catching another 31,600 fugitives, according to the Marshals Service's Web Site.

Among those arrested were escaped prisoners and criminal suspects who did not turn up for court proceedings.

Congress gave the Marshals Service more money and authority to go after fugitives when it refocused the FBI's mission toward stopping terrorism in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, Turner said. The Marshals Service now has five permanent regional task forces to search for fugitives, he added.

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Harte

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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(\"Crosstika\")</div>
Roundup Nabs More Than 10,000 Fugitives

Thu Apr 14,12:52 PM ET
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WASHINGTON - More than 10,000 fugitives, many wanted for violent crimes, were rounded up over the past week in a coordinated nationwide effort led by U.S. marshals...
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..More than 150 who were arrested were wanted for murder, another 550 were sought on rape or sexual assault charges, and more than 600 had outstanding arrest warrants for armed robbery, officials said. Among those captured were 150 gang members and 100 unregistered sex offenders, they said. [/b]

Glad to see the government doing it's job and doing it well.

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Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and U.S. Marshals Service director Ben Reyna were to announce details of the roundup later Thursday.

Codenamed \"Operation Falcon,\" the dragnet was the largest ever in numbers of arrests and involved local, state and federal authorities, said Marshals Service spokesman David Turner. [/b]

Very happy to see Gonzales doing so well after the lousy browbeating he took during confirmation.

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For all of last year, marshals arrested more than 36,000 people wanted on federal warrants, and worked with state and local authorities in catching another 31,600 fugitives, according to the Marshals Service's Web Site.

Among those arrested were escaped prisoners and criminal suspects who did not turn up for court proceedings.

Congress gave the Marshals Service more money and authority to go after fugitives when it refocused the FBI's mission toward stopping terrorism in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, Turner said. The Marshals Service now has five permanent regional task forces to search for fugitives, he added.

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Hopefully Gonzales will be able to continue the upgrading process at Justice that Ashcroft began.

Harte
 

StarLord

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Say, without a camp fire and those doggys to mosey around, how does that qualify as a Roundup?

I would call it doing their job as Harte has pointed out.
 

Ghost

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Well, The Geneva Convention is quaint.[/b]

What does this have to do with the Geneva Convention?
 

Darkwolf

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Round up violent felons, HOW DARE THEY??? This is clear discrimination against the Legally challanged by the white law abiding establishment.
 

Harte

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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(\"Crosstika\")</div>
Well, The Geneva Convention is quaint.[/b]

Again we have Crosstika using the old bait-and-switch.

You know that the Geneva Conventions apply to international conflicts. Such conflicts usually involve altercations between otherwise uninvolved people, usually conscripts, that are legitimate battlefield combatants, legitimized by their particular state. Since such people have no real say in what they are doing, they of course should be protected from mistreatment by the opposing force, after all, the conflict is not their fault.

How does this apply to the murderers, rapist, armed robbers and escaped convicts in your first posting? These people are rightly being hunted down and segregated from society. Some are being returned to prison, others are being held for trial.

And anyway, I don't see anything in the article that you posted that violates the Geneva Conventions.

Must have been a slow news day, huh?

Harte
 

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