Editor’s Note: I suspended this blog eight months ago, for the usual personal reasons. Sometimes, it’s good to swing a hammer instead of a pen. I’ve been trying to find a way to start the blog up again. When writing about the justice system’s dealings with crime victims, the problem is that there are too many injustices to cover. And the media rarely acknowledges any of these injustices, except in condescending ways. They’ll mouth pieties about feeling sorry for victims, but, in reality, they are utterly disinterested in actually reporting the systematic ways the justice system fails the vast majority of people who have been on the receiving end of crimes, large and small.
They’re too fixated on empathizing with criminals to do that. ...
