U. Michigan Law School ‘Progressive Prosecutor’ Course Explores ‘Eliminating Racial and Socioeconomic Inequity’
“Their refusal to prosecute misdemeanors and many felonies, when combined with their push for no-cash bail and no detention for criminals awaiting trial, has devastated urban communities”
So basically, the University of Michigan Law School is training future George Soros DAs. That’s just great.
Campus Reform reports:
Umich Law’s Progressive Prosecutor course explores ‘eliminating racial and socioeconomic inequity’
A course at the University of Michigan Law School, “Progressive Prosecution: Law and Policy” is teaching students to look past “tough-on-crime” policies in favor of a more “progressive” approach that prioritizes “combatting overincarceration” and “eliminating racial and socioeconomic inequity.”
As a “practice simulation” class, the course also promises students the opportunity to work on “real-world projects” for use by the Washtenaw County Prosecutor’s Office to “move forward its progressive vision.”
Victoria McCaskey Burton-Harris and Eli Savit are listed as the instructors for the 2-credit course. Savit currently serves as the elected Prosecuting Attorney for Washtenaw County and Burton-Harris is the county’s appointed Chief Assistant Prosecutor.
Savit also served as a law clerk to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and senior legal counsel for the City of Detroit. He ran for County Prosecutor on a platform of “equitable justice.”
Burton-Harris previously worked in family law at her private firm and has written extensively on criminal justice reform. According to her Michigan faculty biography, she seeks to “end mass incarceration.”
Heritage Foundation scholar Hans von Spakovsky criticized the “progressive prosecutor movement” in a recent PJ Media column.
“Their refusal to prosecute misdemeanors and many felonies, when combined with their push for no-cash bail and no detention for criminals awaiting trial, has devastated urban communities and victimized the very individuals they claim they are trying to help—law-abiding citizens in poor, often majority-minority urban neighborhoods,” he writes.
In a conversation with Campus Reform, Heritage Legal Fellow Zack Smith stated that the term “progressive prosecution” is “misleading because there’s nothing ‘progressive’ about it.”
“Where these so-called ‘progressive’ reforms have been implemented,” Smith said, “things are getting worse, communities are suffering, and in fact violent crimes in many of these communities are increasing.”
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Get out of jail free card for black looters??
Black Lies & Marxism.
Progressivism = rule by and for the benefit of the criminal class.
I have an honest question about “mass incarceration.” Is it possible that some of this may be a result of plea deals that offer a minimal prison sentence rather than a jury’s findings? Is it also possible that such deals are often put on the table by public defenders? If the answer is “yes” wouldn’t one way to avoid such incarcerations to change how public defenders’ offices are funded so to lessen the work load and provide a more robust defense for indigent defendants? Perhaps bringing monies allocated more in line with what DA office receives.
After all those charged have a right to an attorney. They don’t have a right to have the DA refuse to do their job.