> Bond reform designed to make sure no one stays in jail while their cases are pending with no safety net to handle more criminals on the streets, At the time

> Bond reform designed to make sure no one stays in jail while their cases are pending with no safety net to handle more criminals on the streets, At the time you make bond, you have merely been charged with a crime—you are not a criminal. I’m sure a prosecutor does get tired of having to argue cases against defendants who were able, by virtue of habeas corpus, to prepare a defense. > shorter parole periods, lower sentences for repeat offenders, Things that mitigate real inequities present when the justice system interacts with poor people. > the malicious and unnecessary prosecution of law enforcement officers, This is a terrible thing to say in a world where police officers have no obligation to serve and extraordinary legal defenses that protect them from almost every form of wrongdoing. > overuse of diversion programs, The United States already incarcerates a relatively large fraction of the world’s children. He would prefer incarcerating more. > intentionally not pursuing prosecutions for crimes lawfully on the books after being passed by our legislature and signed by a governor, This prosecutor has had this power for twenty years, and I’m certain he’s used it freely. He’s likely used it to protect people he feels sympathy toward, and refrained from using it to protect people he feels no sympathy toward. He’s likely used it because he feels overworked or under-appreciated. > all of these so-called reforms have had a direct negative impact, with consequences that will last for a generation. As a prosecutor, he had wide-reaching legal power to make his community a better place. What did he do instead? To hear him tell it, he was the one in prison for twenty years.