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...states moving quickly in the wake of tragedy to enact a strong "tough on crime" legislative response. A lot of eponymous law gets made this way--Megan's Law, Kendra's Law, and so on...legal wisdom long held that hard cases make bad laws...the immediate aftermath of a unique tragedy may not be the best time to construct new frameworks that will govern how thousands of future cases will be handled.

If we want our response to crime to be more effective and more humane...we must summon the assistance of two powerful superheroes—two forces that, working together, can sweep away the cobwebs in our minds, clear the highest organizational hurdles and move political mountains. Our two superheroes are science—the quest for empirical truth—and passion—the human impulse to seek justice.

In his “I Have a Dream” speech, Martin Luther King Jr. talked about the “fierce urgency of now.” This is certainly a moment or urgency when it comes to criminal justice in this country. The time for diagnosing has passed. Now is the moment for deciding what is to be done. And doing it.

Wasn't bad

Started to read this on my commute. It's okay so far. Some things are rubbing me the wrong way but all in all, it's okay.