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I don’t want to sound like a jerk - I am glad that things are working out for your daughter - but is this really a shock to you?
Maybe we should "defund the police" a little bit and have one fewer tank in your rural community and allocate a little bit more to the public defenders office? Because that is what you are seeing here. The choices of voters that spent more on policing, wanted "law and order" and "broken window" policies. Maybe privatized the prisons and need to keep the profits rolling in. But most of all voters that don't give a
about "bottom cases" because those are those "other people". There are forty hours in a work week, surely a public defender can handle 36 case (I made that number up). That is until it hits home.
This is not at all what I meant but I think you know that. Either way I will take this no further and I wish you luck with your daughters situation.
Maybe we should "defund the police" a little bit and have one fewer tank in your rural community and allocate a little bit more to the public defenders office? Because that is what you are seeing here. The choices of voters that spent more on policing, wanted "law and order" and "broken window" policies. Maybe privatized the prisons and need to keep the profits rolling in. But most of all voters that don't give a
Public defenders require public money, i.e. taxes. Maybe we aren't funding those public defenders enough for them to provide more than a cursory defense due to the overwhelming caseload. Perhaps if we paid more taxes and funded more public defenders, they would have the ability to provide a better defense for bull#### charges?
You have never once in your entire life supported tax cuts?
In my experience there people in all professions that don't give their best effort. I'm sure there are many hard working, dedicated public defenders that advocate zealously for their clients and some that just do the minimum they are required to do. I do not think that is unique to attorneys or public defenders, nor do I think we can draw any conclusions from one case.
The quality of health care and products you buy absolutely relates to how much you pay.
I'm not a parent but my parents I know helped me on a few occasions. I imagine this would be one of the toughest parts of being a parent the whole when to help them, when to let them figure it out themselves.
I'm not sure that this is what you are really saying but I can easily read this as -
I have never carried more than 25 cases at a time in my career, but I do complex litigation. I couldn't imagine trying to keep track of that many files.
I think you're being a little too stereotypical with your views on wealth and how folks that grow up in households where money is no object turn out to be as adults.Stealthycat said:
Anecdata and stereotypes.Stealthycat said:
1. The USA doesn't invest in social safety net or early childhood education like other developed countries. The cost for childcare in the US is very high and is unsubsidized for the most part.
Not trying to be a #### but if you believed in this you’d have your daughter plead guilty to the charges you yourself has said she’s 100% guilty of and not pay the 5k to use the system to get her off. What you should be saying is, personal responsibility for others but not when it affects me or mine.
Well, and we may never know this, but if law enforcement did violate his daughter's rights and that is why the defense attorney was able to get it dismissed (because the state probably would have conceded there was a winnable issue and just dismissed instead of going through the motions), then I don't think it's fair to say she "didn't take responsibility" because our system is designed where exclusion is the remedy and the deterrent for unconstitutional state action.
As a father of a daughter myself I’m not judging your actions. I’d do the same. I’m just merely pointing out again where your vision and perspective is narrow. I would hope something like this would not just open your eyes up to the legal system perceptions but all the other perceptions that have been pretty close minded, in my opinion, you’ve expressed. Personal responsibility isn’t as simple as you like to make it out. This is a perfect example.
I can tell you one thing. The poor kids likely will pay a far worse penalty for their mistakes, as you have experienced. And being that they are likely in communities surrounded by greater poverty, which likely means worse schools, less resources to keep the kids out of trouble, less positive role models, etc etc, i don't think you need a study to know why its by light years more difficult for poor kids to improve upward mobility, stay out of trouble, get an education, etc. Not impossible, just way more difficult.
I've formed over 25 non-profits and donate time to fight child prostitution in multiple countries.
