What, the new guy too? I seem to remember your last one had a rep for botching murder convictions in between firing employees for skin color. I think your state's just messed up, a conviction rate that low would normally get a DA kicked out rampant incompetence or charged with for corruption under the assumption he was on the take from someone.



I wouldn't be surprised, the whole corrections end of things tends to have a nasty record even without including the inmates, and I would hardly be surprised if it were worse there. I've never been entirely clear on how prisons, beside maybe max security, can actually fail to be revenue neutral, but I gather it's worse in Cali, they spend about half again as much on prisons as schools, ironically the ninth circuit just ruled (though it's likely to be struck down) that deny votes to felons in or out of prison is a violiation of the voting act, because it's racist, because it disenfranchises black voters, although I can't see that ruling remaining it adds a humorous note to the situation, I wonder what adding imprisoned convicts to the voter rolls would do?