Increasing Empathy Is a Really Weird Reason for Public Humiliation

Increasing Empathy Is a Really Weird Reason for Public Humiliation June 10, 2014

But drugs have a funny effect on the brain, I guess:

…It was the second such heroin sweep where authorities sought to publicize the names, hometowns, ages and photos of alleged buyers and distributors. Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes said that tactic would help further educate the public.

“We are working toward eliminating the notion that a heroin addict is a person that is in an alley with a needle sticking in their arm,” Valdes said. “We are so removed from that.”

more (and also notice how the charges used to be dismissed after six months but now, under this more empathetic regime, it takes two to three years)


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