Indigent defense is broken in Texas-and throughout the United States-and it has been broken for decades. Excessive caseloads and conflicts of interest are two of the most significant problems behind the notoriously poor quality of indigent defense services. Texas can address these problems through at least five changes to the state criminal justice system: reclassifying several offenses so that they do not trigger the right to counsel, increasing diversion to problem-solving courts, expanding the use of victim-offender conferencing, encouraging “open file” discovery systems, and providing vouchers to indigents for the selection of counsel.”
Biden took credit, but we should thank local cops for cutting crime
Cops in cities like Detroit and Dallas are cutting crime. Biden’s billions didn’t help DC. The re-election campaign for President Joe Biden is spending significant bandwidth trying to rehabilitate his poor reputation on the subject of crime and criminal justice policy, and for good reason. Recent polling shows that more than half of the country is dissatisfied...