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"I Got Myself Arrested So I Could Look Inside the Justice System" - btfc - 12-19-2013
http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/12/i-got-myself-arrested-so-i-could-look-inside-the-justice-system/282360/
"Ten years ago, when I started my career as an assistant district attorney in the Roxbury neighborhood of Boston, I viewed the American criminal justice system as a vital institution that protected society from dangerous people. I once prosecuted a man for brutally attacking his wife with a flashlight, and another for sexually assaulting a waitress at a nightclub. I believed in the system for good reason.
But in between the important cases, I found myself spending most of my time prosecuting people of color for things we white kids did with impunity growing up in the suburbs. As our office handed down arrest records and probation terms for riding dirt bikes in the street, cutting through a neighbor’s yard, hosting loud parties, fighting, or smoking weed – shenanigans that had rarely earned my own classmates anything more than raised eyebrows and scoldings – I often wondered if there was a side of the justice system that we never saw in the suburbs. Last year, I got myself arrested in New York City and found out."
Re: "I Got Myself Arrested So I Could Look Inside the Justice System" - Ombligo - 12-19-2013
Hardly a surprise.. double standards and ego-tripping officials are the norm.
Re: "I Got Myself Arrested So I Could Look Inside the Justice System" - cbelt3 - 12-19-2013
That IS a very interesting article. Justice, in NYC, droppeth like a lead brick from the Empire State observation tower.
Re: "I Got Myself Arrested So I Could Look Inside the Justice System" - August West - 12-19-2013
While male privilege.
Re: "I Got Myself Arrested So I Could Look Inside the Justice System" - RgrF - 12-19-2013
I'd have been more satisfied if he'd first printed the story of the arrest, incarceration and arraignment and then taken it to a jury.
Re: "I Got Myself Arrested So I Could Look Inside the Justice System" - Chakravartin - 12-20-2013
Months of dragging it out in the courts, driving up his expenses an wasting his time; first offense and not likely to repeat; 3 years probation, no traveling out of the city and the cops allowed to toss his home any time they feel like it.
...For a little graffiti.
I want to see that judge's written opinion. In the manner that it was presented, it doesn't seem to have a rational basis. It seems like part of a vendetta.
Re: "I Got Myself Arrested So I Could Look Inside the Justice System" - RgrF - 12-20-2013
It's clearly vindictive, wonder how it will affect his public defender status in the future.
Re: "I Got Myself Arrested So I Could Look Inside the Justice System" - mattkime - 12-20-2013
the whole system is an industry upon itself. a cancer upon society.