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Study Links Not Prosecuting Misdemeanors To Lower Crime By
Justin Wise | April 4, 2021, 8:02 PM EDT A wave of progressives have entered U.S. district attorney s offices in recent years on platforms pledging to overhaul the criminal justice system. Some vowed to stop prosecuting certain nonviolent low-level offenses, arguing it was yielding little social benefit and causing significant harm to marginalized communities.
A new academic study on misdemeanor prosecution inside a Massachusetts district attorney s office may provide added support to that approach.
Published in late March as part of a working paper series from the National Bureau of Economic Research, the study finds that not prosecuting certain defendants charged with nonviolent misdemeanor offenses can substantially reduce the likelihood of their future contact with the criminal justice system. The effects of not prosecuting are estimated to be most pronounced for first-time defendants, the study note
It was so devastated that nobody has managed to adjust in 50 years.
I live a few blocks from a giant freeway. I should get some Biden Bux for the devastation.
Seriously, the big devastation to the neighborhood due to the freeway only happened recently when Mayor Garcetti decided to let bums live on the sidewalks under the underpass.The freeway opened in 1955, but this is the first time pedestrians have been blocked. Heck, it doesn’t rain 350 days of the year in L.A. lately, so it’s not like the homeless desperately need to be shielded from the rain. Many of them have moved to L.A. to enjoy the year-round sunshine and now the government is telling them to occupy chokepoints under freeways. And have you noticed how much
Cook Co. aims to disrupt conviction-to-deportation pipeline
CARLOS BALLESTEROS of Injustice Watch
April 3, 2021
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CHICAGO (AP) Alejandra Cano thought she was in the clear.
It had been five years since she got sober after a decades long struggle with drug addiction. She racked up several misdemeanors when she was using, mostly for shoplifting. But that was another life. In this one, Cano, 46, was a working single mom who lived in a comfortable first-floor apartment on the West Side of Chicago with her two teenage sons. And after almost 20 years of not seeing her dad or her homeland, Cano decided to fly to Chile in August 2019.