Each drug dealer, each mugger, each killer, and each felon with a gun had his own lawyer, his own case, his own time before judge and jury, his own sentencing, and, in many cases, an appeal or other post-sentencing review.
Then again, it's pretty common knowledge that public defenders are woefully understaffed, overworked, and underfunded.
The young men dying on street corners all across this country are not committing suicide or being shot by the cops. They are being killed, police chiefs tell me, by other young men with guns.
Except when, you know, we've got a lot of documentation where they very much are being shot by the cops. Pesky fact, that.
Lives are saved when those potential killers are confronted by a strong police presence and actual, honest-to-goodness, up-close “What are you guys doing on this corner at one o’clock in the morning?” policing
How much of this sort of policing happens nowadays? How much is cops intervening without throwing the book or calling in reinforcements?
Each drug dealer, each mugger, each killer, and each felon with a gun had his own lawyer, his own case, his own time before judge and jury, his own sentencing, and, in many cases, an appeal or other post-sentencing review.
Then again, it's pretty common knowledge that public defenders are woefully understaffed, overworked, and underfunded.
The young men dying on street corners all across this country are not committing suicide or being shot by the cops. They are being killed, police chiefs tell me, by other young men with guns.
Except when, you know, we've got a lot of documentation where they very much are being shot by the cops. Pesky fact, that.
Lives are saved when those potential killers are confronted by a strong police presence and actual, honest-to-goodness, up-close “What are you guys doing on this corner at one o’clock in the morning?” policing
How much of this sort of policing happens nowadays? How much is cops intervening without throwing the book or calling in reinforcements?