"No Justice, No peace." (New Yorker Magazine story on Kings County District Attorney Kenneth Thompson; Innocence Project Co-Founder Peter Neufeld indicts America's criminal justice system as, "The only sector in society which has not used root-cause analysis”—a formal methodology for determining the source of an undesirable result—“routinely to deal with its issues." (An important observation which explain why America's criminal justice system so often repeats its mistakes; Must Read. HL);

STORY: "No justice no peace, by Mathew McKnight, published by the New Yorker Magazine on January 6, 2015.

GIST: "For the moment, two important challenges remain outside the scope of Thompson’s unit: understanding precisely why mistakes happened and instituting measures to prevent wrongful convictions from happening in the future. Neufeld argues that the means for accomplishing these goals already exists. “The only sector in society which has not used root-cause analysis”—a formal methodology for determining the source of an undesirable result—“routinely to deal with its issues has been the criminal-justice system,” he said. “And I don’t want to single D.A.s out. It’s true of public defenders; it’s true of crime laboratories; it’s true of police departments; it’s true of the courts.”

The entire story can be found at:

http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/kenneth-thompson-conviction-review-unit-brooklyn

See National Institute of Justice paper on "Mending Justice."
 https://ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/247141.pdf

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