More Non-Prosecutions Coming

Via a third party, someone we'd trust by reputation alone:

• Although my sources have heard different things from those inside the SAO, here’s what I’ve learned so far …
  
  [...] The Narcotics Division is being done away with. Narcotics cases will be handled by the general trial division. (Just like the old days, when they were put on bond and their cases continued forever until they pick up a new case and they pled out to concurrent time.) The Complex Narcotics Unit will become a small unit in Special Prosecutions.
  Many of the ASAs who were in the narcotics unit were transferred into a new unit called Restorative Justice.
  
  Restorative Justice: The victim is invited to come to court and met the guy who stole their property or burglarized their house so he can say he’s sorry. If he does this, he gets to avoid prison. The victims get nothing. [...] Some think narcotics prosecution will slowly be phased out since Kim is one of those that think the War on Drugs is evil.
  
  In my opinion, Kim has done the following:
  
  Dope dealers and junkies will be put back onto our streets where they will be allowed to continue to victimize their neighbors and their crossfire during shoot outs over drug territory will continue to cause fatalities of innocent people. All property crime offenders will be immediately released and eventually given an unlimited number of non-penitentiary sentences no matter how often they steal from others.
  
  Worse of all, Kim Fox’s policies are encouraging criminal behavior by sending the message that criminals are blameless because their behavior is the fault of society and they are compelled to act as they do. This, of course, will undermine the efforts of the overwhelming number of law abiding, intercity, parents who are trying to teach their kids right from wrong. It will also allow criminals to continue to make life miserable for the people who are forced to take these predators back into their community.
  
  She claims that her actions will make life better for intercity Black people, but if so, she has to think that all Black people are criminals. I worked under five States Attorneys in my time and although I preferred some over others, she is by far the worst of them all. Unfortunately, she is not unique. All too many of our politicians, bureaucrats and judges have never realized the fact that victims are people too.
  
  [...]

Silence from the media and what this means to the communities hardest hit by violence. Crimesha isn't completely wrong about the War on Drugs - it's not evil, but it's been poorly run, managed, fought, however you want to describe it.

But zero-punishment isn't the way to run it either...unless you're a moron.