Truth About How to Reduce Juvenile Crime Is Not Political [JJIE.org]

Samantha Sangenito 6/3/164:00 AM

When personal politics are more important than the truth, immoral judgments will prevail. When immoral judgments prevail, people are harmed.

But when these people are children, the immoral becomes unconscionable. Legislators who have abandoned their independent judgment pass laws that harm kids. Just because it's law doesn't make it morally right. Segregation and Jim Crow laws have shown us this truth.

Public servants responsible for making laws and interpreting them, our legislators and judges, are prone to “rational lies” when there is an existing bent of mind on a particular subject. For some that disposition, if not the truth, will never be straightened out, regardless of how much truth is flung at them.

[For more of this story, written by Judge Steven Teske, go to http://jjie.org/truth-about-ho...ot-political/254303/]

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