In Memoriam

They are burying this Trooper today.

His wife and kids will have to live without him now.

Why?

The guy who shot him should have been in Jail!

How many times does this have to happen?

Rest In Peace my Brother in Blue!

30yo.Gregory Favors was more than a repeat offender. He was a serial repeat offender with 19 arrests and 10 convictions.

Because of that last July, after Favors had yet another brush with the law, Fulton County prosecutors wanted the judge to throw the book at him, pushing for a 30-year sentence with four years to serve behind bars.

But the Magistrate in the case disagreed and gave Favors 30-days on top of time served.

In a letter to Fulton County's Chief Judge Cynthia Wright, DA Paul Howard, Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed, and Atlanta Police Chief George Turner said had "Favors been given even half the recommended sentence, he'd still be incarcerated today," instead of facing new charges for allegedly killing state trooper Chadwick LeCroy this week.

The letter also says the Favors case is not believed to be an isolated event but in fact "occurs regularly as part of the Non-complex Criminal Court Division," which was designed to fast-track low-level felonies, often using non-negotiated plea bargains.

The DA says it is apparent that that philosophy of "moving cases is inconsistent with the safety of the Atlanta Fulton-County community, and immediate corrective action should be taken. As such, operations of the Non-Complex Court Division should be temporarily suspended and the cases distributed to the 16 Superior Court Judges."

Howard also says Trooper LeCroy's murder is not the only one to come as a result of these judicial problems. In September, he wrote that stabbing victim "Wayne Jackson died because of a failure in the system." Three months later, Trooper LeCroy would lose his life as well, also "because of a failure in the system."

DA Howard was careful to assure the court that the letter was not a personal attack on the judiciary, but rather a call to action to change the system by which it operates. He wants the Chief Justice of the Georgia Supreme Court to lead a study commission with top state and local criminal justice experts to figure out how to fix the system's deadly "failures."