In the cases that come before the Department of Justice involving a wide range of unlawful activities, we see repeated evidence of family and community failures.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
As a person who has spent my career as a child psychologist and have dealt with many children who have struggled with many problems in families, I have seen families ripped apart by so many things that sometimes law has tried to deal with.
Family violence is a criminal act; perpetrators, while often former victims themselves, need to accept culpability.
When there's trouble in a family, it tends to show up in the weakest member. And all the other members of the family know that. They make allowances for the one in trouble.
In reality, those rare few cases with good forensic evidence are the ones that make it to court.
Wrongful convictions happen every week in every state in this country. And they happen for all the same reasons. Sloppy police work. Eyewitness identification is the most - is the worst type almost. Because it's wrong about half the time. Think about that.
Our family had been shattered, but we now are more united, and the remains of my family and the majority of my mother's family are glad to know the truth about a horrible crime.
The rule which should guide us in such cases is simple and obvious enough: that the aggregate testimony of our neighbours is subject to the same conditions as the testimony of any one of them.
Families always stay the same, but they always provide more stories.
Quality-of-life policing is based on probable cause - an officer has witnessed a crime personally or has a witness to the crime.
The most successful families embrace and elevate their family history, particularly their failures, setbacks and other missteps.