Juvenile offenders are more impressionable than adult offenders, and have longer lives ahead of them. This raises the stakes for both success and failure for both future public safety and taxpayer costs when dealing with juveniles. Sentencing youth to ineffective, inappropriate programs and facilities could place a one-time nonviolent offender on a path of persistent wrongdoing; essentially making the youth a lifetime siphon of resources rather than contributor.
Too many Houston crimes go unsolved. Here’s how to change that.
The latest HPD scandal underscores a national problem. Commit a crime, get caught and go to jail — directly to jail. It’s the justice lesson we learned growing up, but it’s far from reality in cities across the nation, where clearance rates are abominably low. News out of Houston is compounding the issue of unsolved crimes after the Houston...