http://archive2.mrc.org/taxonomy/term/16270/all en http://archive2.mrc.org/articles/when-prosecutors-go-wild <div class="field field-type-nodereference field-field-source"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <div class="field-label-inline-first"> By</div> <a href="/author/brian-fitzpatrick">Brian Fitzpatrick</a> </div> </div> </div> <p >Where do you turn for help when the people assaulting your kids are the authorities themselves?</p> <br /> <p >When I was in high school, the local cops decided they'd had enough petty crime from some teenaged hooligans.  They started picking up the kids on the street, driving them into the woods, and beating the tar out of them.  Having kids acting like jerks is scary, but having officers of the law throw out the law book and exact their own brand of justice is even scarier. </p><p><a href="http://archive2.mrc.org/articles/when-prosecutors-go-wild" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Articles MRC Culture Politics DavidEvans Duke Finnerty justice Lacrosse Nifong rape Seligmann Wed, 20 Jun 2007 04:00:00 +0000 admin 27788 at http://archive2.mrc.org