Records: probation officer never met with teen charged in Carson's death

The problem is not the "whole" probation system, it's the way North Carolina runs it's Probation/Parole system. You have so many hoops you have to jump through to get an offenders probation revoked that it has become a joke. Some parts of the system are good but the returning to court for every adjustment to the judgement waste so much time. NC needs to have only the sentence on the Judgement. It needs to work so the offender is given only one chance and if he/she fails , then when they are taken back to court their Probation is Revoked!

First off it is spelled OFFENDER....secondly....it is not us who determines whose probation does and does not get revoked it is the JUDGES. All we can do is to report the violations to the courts and the courts determine whether or not to revoke probation/parole....not the officer. You don't know the countless times I have written violation reports, arrested offenders and took them back before a judge all for the judge to say, hey give them another chance. It is not probation officers who are making probation a joke....it is the court system. I guess you blame the police officers to. They kept arresting these guys and somehow they ended up back on the streets!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Give me a break!

Dear Guest89,

It is not in my nature to be a rude person, but reading your blog struck me wrong, especially with the way it started out.

Since you admonished "looking at you" for the March 28th blog in which "offender" was misspelled, I thought I'd point out a couple of errors you made.

Spelling and punctuation errors: Third sentence from the bottom should say, "...police officers, too" instead of "...police officers to."

Grammatical error: First sentence should say, "...it is not we who determine", not "it is not us who determines."

You know what they say, "People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones."

Thank you for your comments. Only someone who has been there can know what goes on behind the scenes. The sad thing about this story is that they actually had a convict looking out for another convict. Someone fell down badly on this situation. Whomever gave her a license to be a parole officer needs to be fired, and she needs to be punished in some way for failing to do her duty.

That young man was an accident waiting to happen, and probably nothing could have stopped him from committing another crime, unless he was locked up. A young lady lost her life, her family and friends will never be the same, and life for all of them has changed tragically.

I am waiting to see what kind of defense he puts up. My guess the race card will be pulled out. And that brings me to another question: why is it that when a white kills a black, it is a race crime, but when a black kills a white, it is not? Makes you think doesn't it?