Lynchburg's Commonwealth's Attorney Office faces more cases, fewer prosecutors
Facing high case loads and a dwindling staff, the Lynchburg Commonwealth's Attorney's Office no longer will participate in prosecuting select misdemeanors in the city.
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Facing high case loads and a dwindling staff, the Lynchburg Commonwealth's Attorney's Office no longer will participate in prosecuting select misdemeanors in the city.
Groundswell of disquiet that'smo been going on for severalthis, months because of thisth this fi sort of attempt by the fbi to create a case load to match this extreme rhetoric from the biden administration talking about domestic terroristsemies and enemies ofta the state and basically their political opponents as semi fascists. and because those people don't really exist in america, the fbi is having to drum them up. and there are, i consider, rule number of people within the fbi and the doj who are unhappy about that. they're starting to comek out forward and speak out. >> and i think there ...
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Every one of those 536 deaths could perhaps have been avoided, but over the same period more than 300,000 children have been taken into care, and for some that may have caused serious harm. the pressures for social workers, in children's social work, are enormous. the fact that we're struggling to attract people to the profession, so there's fewer social workers, higher case load, that can mean less time to spend with families. there's still a whole load of blame around, and in that culture workers will be thinking, we have to be ultra defensive and play safe... ..and the consequence is, we ma...
Injury, abuse or neglect has broadly remained the same — around one death a week over the last ten years. every one of those 536 deaths could perhaps have been avoided, but over the same period more than 300,000 children have been taken into care, and for some that may have caused serious harm. the pressures for social workers, in children's social work, are enormous. the fact that we're struggling to attract people to the profession, so there's fewer social workers, higher case load, that can mean less time to spend with families. there's still a whole load of blame around, and in that cult...