by Conrad Black (February 2016)
Two relatively recent articles in respected publications have piercingly reminded me of what a rotting carcass much of the American legal system has become. The articles were a piece in The Weekly Standard of October 26 by retired attorney Paul Mirengoff and Georgetown law professor and former prosecutor William Otis, and a fawning profile of Judge Richard Posner by Lincoln Caplan (the Truman Capote visiting lecturer at Yale Law School, if such a position can be imagined) in the current issue of Harvard Magazine. more>>>
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America’s “salad bowl” of peoples compounded by the disintegration of the traditional family is unique in the realm of crime rates, Conrad.
BOTTOM LINE: Subtract minority crime rates, and we’re just like Switzerland. Other than a false premise, this is a great article.
So would Mr. Black prefer that the thugs profiled elsewhere on these pages go free soon to rape and pillage again?
Of course not.
A few cherry-picked outrages — often less than that — among his friends is not a recommendation for public policy. Mr. Black serially misrepresents the role of pleas, recidivism statutes, and other elements of the criminal justice system in America. For those of us having to live in the swamp of violent criminality in major cities, his special pleading is morally repulsive.
I invite you, Mr. Black, to spend a few months taking public transit in Atlanta on off hours as well as clocking time in the criminal courts here to see real sentencing, or lack of it, and then get back to us about the horrors of over-incarceration, etc.
Until then, you don’t know what you’re talking about no matter how much you go on.