Good thing she isn’t a 72-year-old woman with a moving violation. She would’ve been tasered for that smart ass reply.

“You see, that’s why the police can’t find him… he was cremated.

If the family had only buried him with his ankle monitor, the police might have had a chance.”

That ankle monitor would look mighty handsome around the neck of an urn.

I’m particularly fond of the fact that the acronym doesn’t even work.
There’s no “T” following the only possible “R” in “Supervision and Management Automated Recording”. Talk about your severe case of cluster-fail.

I can make it work:
Supervision and Management Automated Recording… Thing.

I are smar! I come up with acro… acr… fake word!

“Yeah yeah, I talked to him last week. He said he was in Oregon, but heading down to California…. No, he didn’t say where he was going, but he did mention that he stopped by a “Joe’s Diner”…. Sure, I’ll let you know if I hear from him again”.

Of course, they’d probably throw me in a cage for interfering with an active investigation after they figured out he’s dead.

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As yes, government waste is annoying, but the alternative is government efficiency, which is downright terrifying.

Further, you may think it’s daft to mock a govt for not being able to do what I don’t want it to do, but you’re missing the point: I’m laughing at them because they can’t do what they say they–and only they–can do. Screw them. I laugh at their incompetence and arrogance.

I disagree with your view of tracking it’s citizens, as you have stated it here. I do not believe they should track just any citizen, but convicted murderers, sexual predators, kidnappers, or politicians that is another story.

They are as “parolees” not in prison for the crimes of which they were convicted, but as such have not paid for said crimes yet. I see nothing wrong with them reporting to an officer assigned to watch over them.

I believe few on here would think that no one should be punished when they have committed a crime. Many of us feel that personal choices such as no seat belt, intoxicant ingestion, no motorcycle helmet are not crimes against anyone. Murder, theft, or feeling the ass of a 10 year old is a crime, and punishment should be given.

The fact the state says we’ll let you out of prison early, but we will still watch you till your time is served, to me is simply a less severe punishment.

I know I will hear that innocent people are convicted, and I agree with that statement, but I do believe many more guilty are convicted.

This is a libertarian blog. The posters here are generally against giving the government money to do anything because they are philosophically disinclined to expand or assist its powers, either in theory or in practice. Further, they are almost always against the increasing sophistication and interlinking of government means of tracking its citizens, concerned, quite rightly, that this bodes ill for personal liberty.

Those points made, don’t you think it’s a bit daft to mock the fact that the government can’t do what you don’t want it to do? They can’t link their outdated systems to perform a simple cross-check. Yay, so far as most of the posters here are concerned: you don’t want it to have the authority or resources to do that sort of thing.

And double ding ding ding on this:

I wouldn’t take the families word for it either.

C’mon, folks, criminals’ families lie for them all the time. We are talking about a murderer here. If I was a cop (oooh! new moustache!) I wouldn’t believe their word … or even that the right person was cremated … either.

Sorry but Elvis has left the building!

Why should taxpayers be billed for an inefficient, secondary, utterly redundant correctional system?

If the family had only buried him with his ankle monitor, the police might have had a chance.