Police stop pursuing nearly 79,000 fugitives
Accused rapists, murderers are allowed to escape, and the victims aren't told
YUCAIPA, Calif. – For a time, the intruder charged with pressing a revolver to Armando Botello's forehead truly was a wanted man. When he disappeared, the police promised to pursue him anywhere in the United States.
No longer. Last year, the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department notified the FBI that it would pursue the accused armed robber only as far as the state border, even though investigators suspected he had long since left California.
In effect, the change meant that as long as the gunman left the state, he, like thousands of others, was now free to go.
Nationwide, police and prosecutors quietly told the FBI they had abandoned their pursuit of nearly 79,000 accused felons during the past year and a half, a USA TODAY investigation found. They have given up chasing people charged with armed robbery and raping children, usually without informing their victims. Police in one county in California reported they would no longer pursue three of their most-wanted fugitives and a man charged with a murder for which prosecutors have sought the death penalty.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/12/18/fugitives-crossing-state-lines/20240425/
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Gotta get your priorities straight. 
[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]It costs work hours to pursue those bad guys and that hurts the operating budget.
On the other hand, abandoning those pursuits will free up all those work hours for more drug raids, which net such bounty for police and sheriff's departments in property, cash, and other goodies.
It makes perfect sense, of course.
On edit: Can't forget the extra hours that will be available now for property crimes against the rich, policing people's personal lives, and beating up on demonstrators, the poor, and the homeless (especially those of color).
- People who had been largely ignoring this aspect of reality, are now starting to pay attention. They are doing so now because in our high-surveillance society you have no other choice -- we have become a self-referential reality program.
And it's also no longer just ''them'' who are being targeted.
K&R
