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Admirable sentiments, but I think he should look at his job description more closely.

It appears he may have checked the wrong box. It sounds like he is running for a city council seat or director of one of the many half ass useless social works departments plaquing this city..

The PA's job is to prosecute, not be a social worker. The legislative branch, multi-layers ineffectual social work departments and the courts lumber around trying to tuck everybody in and read them bed time stories about being better people.

And where has that gotten us lately?.... well if one believes the gun shooting figures, spike in crime rate figures, casual glance at the homeless camps dotting the city.... not in a good place.

While social work, holding hands, thinking happy thoughts and the singing Kumbaya is all good, it isn't the same as enforcing the law.

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@4:

"The job of the Prosecuting Attorney is to Prosecute criminals."

Huh, and here I was under the mistaken impression our legal system operated on the principle of "innocent until proven guilty", silly me.

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"What, decades/centuries of this approach have not eliminated or reduced crime? That's not the point, they do bad thing, bad thing is done to them, then everything is fine. Anything else is more than those huma-oh shit, CRIMINALS deserve. Whatever the outcome, they must be punished. Over and over, in most cases"

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Except that this is precisely what many legal scholars and prosecutors like Thomas themselves are doing, have been doing for some time - completely rethinking the role of the PA in the justice system in the larger context of criminal justice reform; there a literally scores of articles devoted to the subject.

https://www.google.com/search?q=rethinking+the+role+of+the+prosecuting+attorney&rlz=1C1GCEB_enUS857US857&oq=rethinking+the+role+of+the+prosecu&aqs=chrome.2.69i57j33i160l2j33i299.8510j0j9&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

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https://youtu.be/N92CJGLrIVk


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