While the economic world discusses the banks bailout, the mortgage bailout, the motor industry bailout, a program successfully gave peace of mind to many people with outstanding bench warrants who wanted to turn themselves in.

This is a US Marshals initiative worth mentioning not only because Camden is among the most violent cities in the nation, but also because of the high rate of violence Philadelphia, its neighbor city, faces.

This week the Philadelphia Police Department was the victim again, with the fourth police officer killed in the line of duty so far this year.

This incident is as outrageous as the authorities not knowing why the alleged killer was out on the streets when he was supposed to be in jail after violating his parole and being arrested twice in Bucks County for theft and shoplifting charges.

The officers’ tragedy has turned into a vicious circle similar to the gun control issue.

Whenever there’s a massacre at university, a school or mall, the worn down discussion over gun control, and how the National Rifle Association lobbies against it, ensues.

The following vicious circle may apply to Philadelphia police officers: somebody kills a cop, why was this perpetrator free?

Justice has to be more effective. A way to unclog the court system is to put in effect practical initiatives as the one that took place in Camden.

Just in the program’s first day 500 people turned themselves in, and 298 of them cleared their cases. The cold temperatures didn’t matter. There were long lines and people were hopeful of solving their legal situations.

At the same time one or two violent criminals went straight to jail.

In Philadelphia, where the program also took place in the summer, 1,249 people recovered their peace of mind, and only 22 out of them were arrested.

In terms of the motor industry bailout, and changing subjects, if there’s anyone who should get a bailout solution that would be the auto workers, not the multimillionaires and top executives of an industry that builds cars not fit for a world amidst an energy crisis.