Tl;dr: The author believes that too many D.C. residents (mostly black) are exercising their constitutional civil rights, and that this is dangerous and too litt

Tl;dr: The author believes that too many D.C. residents (mostly black) are exercising their constitutional civil rights, and that this is dangerous and too little attention is being paid to it. He says that the public defense office is problematically well funded, and that the prosecution and juries are too respectful of defendant's rights, with an excess of deference to the fourth amendment.