You know what? Just tear the whole criminal justice system down and build anew

[Blue_Tires]

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One year probation per life taken...

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. She has the "complexion for the protection" as Paul Mooney says

[pecosbob]

2. Lots of good reasons to reform the criminal justice system and local law enforcement entities

but double standards based on race is just the tip of the iceberg. Not to minimize the insult many must feel at reading this story, but this is just like one of ninety-nine problems with LEO and justice.

[Dennis Donovan]

3. I dunno... she has to live with it for the rest of her life.

That would be hell, IMO.

[Bettie]

7. Only if she has a conscience

if not, then, no problem for her.

[Igel]

4. The max was 3 years in prison.

Still not enough for somebody who in practiced valued texting over others' lives.

She should face a real punishment: Forced to use a flip phone without a keyboard for the next 20 years, or, if they're finally phased out completely, have no text or data or facetime on her phone.

[radius777]

5. Agree, there are tons of people rotting

in prison - especially PoC but also whites who couldn't afford top lawyers etc - who got sentences that are out of whack with the situation.

The problem also is that many localities apply widely differing standards for similar crimes.

We need federal standards and oversight... red states are often the worst.

[Blue_Tires]

6. Sure, why not one more?

Dude shoots his wife (who had the nerve to suggest he shouldn't drive drunk) at her own birthday party along with two guests, flees the scene, returns to find a bunch of cops and flees again until he gets tasered... And the cops STILL managed to bring him in alive! How is that??

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