Tomorrow’s Other Elections: Your District Attorney Races

Tomorrow’s Other Elections: Your District Attorney Races November 7, 2016

some thoughts, from the Marshall Project, on the complexity and importance of the DA position:

Sklansky, the Stanford professor, agrees that there is “something uncomfortable” about how individual cases can drive an election campaign, and that this underscores the need to find better ways to measure how prosecutors do their jobs, including more data on charging and convictions. But overall he sees the current competitiveness as a sign that people are paying attention to how the criminal justice system works. “There was a long period where it seemed like there was a rigid logic to the politics of criminal justice, which led to ever-harsher sentences,” he says. “That logic no longer holds.”

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