+1 for the police, -1 for the courts/prisons. He was sentenced to 12 years in 2004 for 6 counts of aggravated robbery.
That's a combination of "new math" and legaleze. "12 Years" means "less than 7 years."
That's why us old guys are constantly confused and chagrined. We are going by OLD math and still believe that a word or phrase should mean what the words say.