Criminal justice across the United States

Re “Understanding criminal justice reform, and the fight against it” (July 3):

I just read the article by Cristine Soto DeBerry. I really don't know how to respond. I am dumbfounded by her remarks. The prosecutor's job is to put criminals in jail. That is what keeps the population safe. Deterrents work. Also, keeping lifelong criminals off the street works very well.

She mentions the loss by the San Francisco DA as due to misinformation. I think she is the one posting misinformation.

L.A. DA George Gascón has repeatedly disregarded the law. He has ordered assistant DAs not to file enhancements that would put career criminals in jail for long sentences, keeping them off our streets. In fact, two police officers were murdered by a career criminal that had gun convictions and a rap sheet as long as his arm. Is this how to keep the people safe? told by the Secret Service agent, not what she knew about the limo incident. The rest of her testimony was what she saw and heard herself, which in a court of law isn't called hearsay.

If the cult followers that surrounded Trump on the fateful day and before while they concocted their plan to overthrow a free election want to testify, they can. The fact is that they either have refused to testify even after receiving a subpoena, or have pleaded the 5th over and over like Michael Flynn and John Eastman have done. Here's a thought, how about the Trump followers remember what Trump said about people that plead the 5th.

Court is like an umpire's call in baseball, one side will like it and the other side won't. The only difference is, in baseball, the team that doesn't like the umpire's decision does not lobby to add more umpires to the decision making process who be more sympathetic to their point of view. Also, there's no crying in baseball!