Thank the Scalia Bounce for the Increase in Violent Crime

Violent crime increased because more violent criminals are on the loose, thanks to the Scalia Bounce. The killing of police also increased. Thank Scalia.

Why on earth would a conservative set loose 100's of 1000's of vicious violent criminals in a series of decision for which he voted or wrote? The sole explanation is the Rent Seeking Theory, to create lawyer jobs. Scalia has to take responsibility for the just beginning increase in the violent crime rate, after his series of criminal lover, senseless decisions: Apprendi / Blakely / Booker / Cunningham.

The full impact of most legal change takes a decade to fully develop. The public may look forward to accelerating increases in violent crime rates. Prosecutors, deterred by these criminal lover decisions, will be offering more favorable plea bargains. The sentencing guidelines had a small impact on decreasing crime rates in the 1990's to 2000's. The criminal, a valuable commodity for the criminal lover lawyer, could not be removed that way. So Scalia stepped in.

Scalia is responsible for the increase in violent crime and all future increases this decade. He must resign or preferably get impeached. Failing that, crime victims are justified in bringing street justice to help him understand their victimization.

Why Does the Criminal Lover Lawyer Love the Criminal, and Does Not Care About the Crime Victim

For several decades, the Supreme Court has repeatedly held that the police has no duty to an individual victim. Their duty is to the entire city. The last such decision took place in 2004, after the police failed to enforce a protection from abuse order from a judge. The husband killed the wife, and the children sued the city.

So the answer to the above question is simple. Criminals make lawyers money. Crime victims do not, and may rot.

Congress may mandate, in exchange for law enforcement funding, a state statute eliminating this police immunity from liability to individual citizens. The crime victim could then encourage by litigation adherence by all police department to professional standards of policing.

Immunity and Liability Are Stealthy Industrial Policy Imposed by the Lawyer, Communistic and Lawless

Immune industries grow. Liable industries shrink and disappear.

Examples:

Kings before and after the execution of Louis XVI.

Railroads in the 19th vs in the 20th Century.

Manufacturing today.

Females in divorce immune from any accountability for misconduct, do not even have to pay for a lawyer, the productive male has to pay the lawyer.

Abortion, immune, growing.

Tobacco use, was immune, now is liable. Grew, then shrank.

Lawyers and judges always immune, always growing in number.

Regulations and lawmaking. Immune and growing, no matter what harm.

Internet, immune and growing.

The KKK and black middle class. During Reconstruction, under the KKK Act, Grant hanged the KKK by the 100's. Black strivers achieved great success and prospered. After Reconstruction, the KKK had total immunity for mass murder and extra-judicial expropriation of black owned property. The KKK grew.

Doctors set their own standards of care. Juries favor them in 75% of verdicts, making them virtually immune. Health care sector is growing rapidly.

Health Maintenance Organizations have immunity for their funding decisions from ERISA. (Aetna Health, Inc. v. Davila, 542 U.S. 200 (2004) 307 F.3d 298)

Criminals have nearly total immunity. 23 million crimes a year, only 1 in 10 is prosecuted.

Lawyers want to make money. They invent false legal doctrines, sell them to pro-lawyer biased judges and clueless juries. Lawyers set industrial policy in violation of the Commerce Clause. They regulate industry without input from either economists nor elected officials. Even the standard enactment process of regulation in the Executive Branch gets bypassed.

Why Not Close Yale University? On Policy Grounds.

Yale Law has lost fed funding over discrimination against the military, violating the Solomon Amendment, unanimously upheld at the Supreme Court.

Yale is the vector for dozens of harmful Euro garbage policy ideas, enacted by both parties. For example, the law enabling and immunizing the HMO was enacted by Nixon. Most of its ideas end up as Democrat Party talking points or planks in their platform.

In the case of the law school, Yale transmitted Legal Realism from the German Free Law Movement. Its contract genius, Llewellyn, trained Cardozo. In Germany, the writing had overreached. So, a date next to a signature voided a will. The signature had to be the last writing, so said the rule. The Free Law Movement intended to soften that harshness, and make it more "English".

There was Legal Realism in the US, under which we continue to suffer. Horrible cult enforcers lawlessly impose their sick rent seeking ideas on the nation, taking it down.

In Germany, Free Law had another spawn, the Nazi Judiciary. It felt free to misinterpret or ignore the laws that would have slowed its murderous rampage down, to further its "policy considerations."

Legal Realism and the Nazi Judiciary are siblings from the same mother. I do not call her a bitch, because her aim was rational, at the turn of the 20th Century. It's her crazy kids that went too far. Before we get all uppity, one difference between them was this. The Nazi Judiciary had a lone dissenter, out of the entire judiciary and German Bar. This judge was offered retirement or execution. He chose retirement. Legal Realism has no dissenter. At Nuremberg, the other judges were hanged for their lawlessness. Justice still awaits in the US.

Yale loves the Taliban, and seeks to recruit them as students.

Corpse and Kelo

The gap between organ transplantation need and donations has grown, so shows this article. About 100,000 patients await a transplant. About 15,000 donors are available. Few patients survive the long waiting lists.

The corpse is a chattel (movable personal property). Chattel is subject to eminent domain. For example, a government took fixtures and may take vehicles.

Kelo, a recent Supreme Court case, allows condemnation of property for private use. In its 124 uses of the word, property, it never uses the term, real property, implying applicability of the decision to all property, including chattel. Taking a corpse in eminent domain has great benefit, and serves a noble public purpose by 1) drastically lowering the cost of care of the recipient after transplantation; 2) transforming a moribund patient into a tax payer, back at work. The value to the recipient and to the family is infinite, has no measurement.

Government deference to superstitious, religious objection by the family of the donor violates the Establishment Clause. A law does not violate the Free Exercise Clause (of religion) if it does not single out religious activity or belief, but is “neutral and of general applicability" (Employment Div., Ore. Dept. of Human Res. v. Smith, 494 U.S. 872 (1990)).

The Florida Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the corneal removal statute (Florida Statute 765.5185 allowing removal of cornea), even against the wishes of the family (State v. Powell, 497 So. 2d 1188 (Fla. 1986))." The U.S. Supreme Court has let these laws stand without ruling on their constitutionality. See Georgia Lions Eye Bank Inc. v. Lavant, 255 Ga. 60, 335 S.E.2d 127 (1985); cert. denied 475 U.S. 1084, 106 S.Ct. 1464, 89 L. ed 721 (1986)."

The evidence establishes that this increase in the quantity and quality of available corneal tissue was brought about by passage of the statute and is, in large part, attributable to the fact that [the law] does not place a duty upon medical examiners to seek out the next of kin to obtain consent for cornea removal (Florida v. Powell).

These statutes have been considered very effective. For example, substantial increases in corneal transplants occurred after such a statute was passed in Georgia: from 25 in 1978 to more than 1,000 in 1984 (National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws, 1987)," so reports, the Board on Health Policy. The opt out, presumed consent approach gets detailed reviews here and here.

What would happen if this statute were passed by all the states, in order to continue receiving federal health funds?

"Organ removal by surgeons.

(1) If a patient needs an organ transplant, a surgeon not involved in the care of either donor nor recipient of the organ, upon request of a recognized Organ Procurement Organization, will provide the organ of a decedent whenever the following conditions are met:

a) The decedent has not affirmed an objection in a will or other writing, when an adult. The driver license will assert the refusal to consent to organ donation (opting out), and no longer the consent to organ donation. The surgeon must presume consent in the absence of presentation of a writing indicating withholding of consent to donate all organs after death.

b) The removal of the organ will not interfere with an investigation or autopsy.

c) The corpse will be returned to the estate. The fair market price of the corpse and reasonable burial costs will be paid to the estate.

No civil or criminal action is permitted against any involved surgeon, nor any assistant, nor any ancillary personnel, nor any employer, nor any hospital for failure to obtain consent of the next of kin, nor for any act of negligence, nor for any intentional tort, such as interference with the right of burial, in the removal of any organ from the corpse of the decedent.

The estate should be compensated with the market value of the corpse, and reasonable funeral costs."

The real world experience of Europe and of Asia has answered with cross-sectional naturalistic studies, comparing equivalent nations' rates of transplantation, with and without presumed consent laws. Longitudinal experience yields the same result, when rates of transplantation increase in the same location after the passage of presumed consent laws.

"...rates of heart and lung donation were at least twice as high in the two countries with presumed-consent legislation (Belgium and Austria) as in the two countries that rely on a policy of explicit consent from the donor's next of kin (Germany and The Netherlands)." (J Transpl Coord. 1996 Dec;6(4):174-7).

"The impact of the presumed consent law and a decentralized organ procurement system on organ donation: quadruplication in the number of organ donors." (Transplant Proc. 1991 Oct;23(5):2685-6). And, "There was no change in the number of suitable donors, but there was an increase in the number of liver recovery surgeries and liver transplantation, and a lower refusal rate among suitable donors." (Transplantation. 2006 Nov 15;82(9):1234-7).

Kelo may over-rule the Uniform Anatomical Gift Act, and the AMA Ethical standard on presumed consent (CEJA Report, based on PA Med Society Resolution 2-A-04). This report throws AMA support behind presumed consent for organ donation if studies show a positive effect on the procurement of organs. "It is not known whether implementation of ethically appropriate models of presumed consent or mandated choice for deceased donation would positively or negatively affect the number of organs transplanted. Therefore, physicians should encourage and support properly designed pilot studies, in relatively small populations, that investigate the effects of these policies. Unless there are data that suggest a positive effect on donation, neither presumed consent nor mandated choice for deceased donation should be widely implemented."

Now, that worldwide experience has proved effective, the AMA no longer has an excuse.