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To me this all speaks "zeitgeist", the mindset of an era. This was New York in the 80s and 90s, the Rudy Giuliani era, "no broken windows", tough on crime ment
by diego_moita 10y ago
To me this all speaks "zeitgeist", the mindset of an era.
This was New York in the 80s and 90s, the Rudy Giuliani era, "no broken windows", tough on crime mentality. The town was traumatized by more than a thousand murders every year. Everyone was desperate for convicts, from the voters to the attorneys, the politicians and jurors. No one had patience to "due process". It was a war.
That era has been praised as a victory for law enforcement. Black Lives Matter and others are now showing the real cost of it. No wonder Giuliani freaks out about BLM.
- PantaloonFlames 10y ago"tough on crime" is not the same as "abandon due process". I challenge your view that jurors and voters would approve of abandoning due process. Sure they wanted convictions of criminals. But not at the cost of faked confessions, lying under oauth, false testimony by law enforcement. It's easy to see that leads to chaos. No one signed up for that, except the watchmen.