LinkLinksOpinion Radley Balko in The Washington Post: The government wants to move the D.C. public defender’s office. That could be disastrous. By Editor On Dec 12, 2019 Last updated Dec 12, 2019 51 Share One major impediment to substantive criminal-justice reform is getting people to understand our legal system’s complicated structural flaws. When it comes to structural racism, for example, the idea that a system can be racially biased even if none of the individual actors within that system are isn’t an intuitive concept. These types of problems don’t have clear villains. They’re often the result not of malevolence, but of inertia or collective neglect. Yet in the aggregate, they exact more widespread pain and injury than more high-profile problems such as police shootings or wrongful convictions. 51 Share FacebookTwitterReddItWhatsAppEmailPrint
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