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JonathanGuerraSecondPaper 3 - 20 Sep 2009 - Main.EbenMoglen
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| | | So maybe it isn’t a con, because the kid doesn’t think that the brick you’re selling is made of anything but brass. Or maybe the con is on you, because you think that you’re there to change something, to effect justice, to make a difference, but your role is just to keep the backlog down and send the casefiles on.
Or maybe we need to reconsider how important that face-to-face you’re giving the kid really is. Maybe giving someone the power to tell their story, and to really listen to them when they do it, is the real justice. Maybe the only person who ever thought about punishment and vengeance was you. Maybe you should turn an ear to what people really want, and all people really want is a person who can turn an ear.
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- I agree that Andrew's original formulation to introduce the essay was a little elusive, but I don't think the idea you rendered in replacement was his. It would be difficult to substantiate the idea that we "traded" bribery, which is never official department policy, for the aggressive pursuit of stop-and-frisk policing, which is, or for turning a blind eye to the brutality of that policy, which verges on it. Andrew's reference to the recurrent reform agitations was not to explain how we got stop-and-frisk abuse, but rather to explain how we got the CCRB. In changing the language you grafted to the root stock an entirely new meaning, which editing should in general be chary of doing.
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