Tuesday, June 9, 2020

From the Cato Institute: America’s Criminal Justice System Is Rotten to the Core

Cato is perhaps the nation's largest libertarian advocacy group.

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As I will explain below, I see three fundamental pathologies in America’s criminal justice system that completely undermine its moral and political legitimacy and render it a menace to the very concept of constitutionally limited government. Those three pathologies are: (1) unconstitutional overcriminalization; (2) point‐​and‐​convict adjudication; and (3) near‐​zero accountability for police and prosecutors.