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September 25, 2016

A Prosecutor’s Vision

I choose this article by Adam Foss he started off his career as a young prosecutors and he

had a vision for a better justice system. He is looking at the justice now and feel that it is

constantly failing everyone who is being prosecuted and sent to prison. He feels that they all

shouldn’t be tried as criminals and some of those people given the opportunity and can live a

prosperous life. Day in and out he watched several prosecutors take people’s lives and just

throw them in jail for life terms instead of creating a better situation or putting some of those

people in a better situation by helping them to achieve that. He did a lot of research on cases

that were coming into the courtroom and see people’s lives just being ruined and the book

thrown at them. Why spend so much money in the justice system and we could have used this

money before the crime had happened or occurred. Why not? We need major changes today!

The money that’s being spent into our jails and prisons is money is that he felt could have

maybe been used for good thing’s instead of spending so much money on our jails and how

much it even costs for someone to go to jail. Why not make these changes to help people in

society to have better lives? Instead of so much on this old justice system which has constantly

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with offenders and reoffenders and now there in the system and now being listed as a felon

and at that point your life is ruined. He feels that the system is set up to keep minorities and

underprivileged people in the system because of how it effects your life. He feels that we could

have predicted that outcome and thing’s young men re accused for all jut led them to the court

seat to go away for the rest of their lives. The changes in criminal justice.

He wants to talk about the system needs reform the way the old system is its set up to see

people fail. One of his firsts cases he remembers this one in particular. A young man by the

name of Christopher who was a senior in high school who had his mind set on going to college

at the time he was just working a part time job and that wasn’t going to cut it. He decided to

steal 30 laptops from Best Buy and sold them on the internet to fund his schooling. This led to

his arrest when he got caught and Adam was the prosecutor on his case at the time. They

charged him with 30 criminal charges and any other prosecutor would have thrown him in

prison probably for a life term. But Adam saw something different in the kid he didn’t see him

as a criminal. He saw his file on his desk and knew that this was a major decision for

Christopher’s life but he didn’t want to ruin it he didn’t want to be the typical prosecutor who

would have not given him another chance. He decided not to arraign Christopher because he

knew how that would have affected him for the rest of his life. He did not want to ruin his life.

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 He later ran into Christopher 6 years later and he recognized Adam from afar. Adam was

trying to remember him and finally put it together well it was Christopher and he had finished

school and now the manager of a high ranked bank and doing very well for himself. He had

done a 360 and praised him for believing in him, caring about him and giving him a second

chance. He knew that things definitely could have turned out different but he seen a lot of

potential in him with the right help. Prosecutor’s make these decisions everyday he decided

not to send him to prison. He ran into him later on his life. He made him accountable for his

wrongdoing and tried to keep him on the right path versus him being condemned in jail. The

employed Christopher is better than him being locked up Christopher. And this is why Adam is

all about trying to make changes to the justice system. Adam would that money go to help

create a get a better life for our people who fall into the system so that they don’t get their life

ruined and can’t get a job/career because you have a record and you are a felon. A lot of the

people now are locked up for this very reason no help and they fail in the system and once in

the system there is a bigger chance of being charged as a reoffender.

So why not reallocate the billions of dollars that are being spent in the prison system

that has constantly failed us. Let’s create a better future and put this money and invest this into

our future. We need to use this money for better solution’s because this old justice system

doesn’t make sense and is not the best solution to the problem. This was supposed to help with

the crime rate which that is increasing day by day. Let’s put the bad guys away. But as it stands

now today we are putting the ones who may have needed a second chance away too. So what

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that does is ruin his or her future. We need to also develop our neighborhoods they are being

torn apart.

It is so important to do research before voting in the election’s when voting for

prosecutor’s some are just there to throw the book at everyone without really looking into the

file seeing if this person may have some potential given better opportunities. We need the

prosecutors who are trying to keep people out of jails instead of the ones who are spending

more money to keep locking folks up and don’t care. Why spend 80 billion dollars into the

prison industry and its constantly failing. We need to create more opportunities, get

intervention help and support and love. Our voice needs to be heard. This comes from the

power of voting.

I choose this article by Adam Foss he started off his career as a young prosecutors

and he had a vision for a better justice system. He is looking at the justice now and feel that it is

constantly failing everyone who is being prosecuted and sent to prison. He feels that they all

shouldn’t be tried as criminals and some of those people given the opportunity and can live a

prosperous life. Day in and out he watched several prosecutors take people’s lives and just

throw them in jail for life terms instead of creating a better situation or putting some of those

people in a better situation by helping them to achieve that. He did a lot of research on cases

that were coming into the courtroom and see people’s lives just being ruined and the book

thrown at them. Why spend so much money in the justice system and we could have used this

money before the crime had happened or occurred. Why not?

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 That money he felt could have maybe been used for good thing’s instead of spending

so much money on our jails and how much it even costs for someone to go to jail. Why not

make these changes to help people in society to have better lives? Instead of so much on this

old justice system which has constantly with offenders and reoffenders and now there in the

system and now being listed as a felon and at that point your life is ruined. He feels that the

system is set up to keep minorities and underprivileged people in the system because of how it

effects your life. He feels that we could have predicted that outcome and thing’s young men re

accused for all jut led them to the court seat to go away for the rest of their lives. The changes

in criminal justice.

He wants to talk about the system needs reform the way the old system is its set up

to see people fail. One of his firsts cases he remembers this one in particular. A young man by

the name of Christopher who was a senior in high school who had his mind set on going to

College but Instead he came up with a way to help him to get the equipment back at least most

of it the rest he had to work off doing community service. He decided not to send him to prison.

Adam wanted to make some changes with the justice system.

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 Race with the Machines

This author Erik Brynjolfsson is realizing that machines are taking over and taking our

jobs we must keep up with innovation and not let the machines push out of work. Because of

the rise of computers and machines people are out of work and are getting paid less. We must

not race against the machine we must run with it.

He gave an example of now people using tax software instead of using their tax

professional which this essentially has put a lot of tax consultants out of work. We must keep

up with technology and yes, it is growing fast. Everything now is being done by a machine

nowadays.

Soon a lot of us are going to be put out of work. When we call to make payments with

Comcast we now deal with a computer versus a telephone operator. Making credit card

payments, car payments and pretty much all of your bills are paid on the computer or by a

machine over the phone. Erik wants to keep up with technology and we are the reason that

technology is moving forward through the knowledge of engineers, scientists and etc. This

author Erik wants to change the new trend of the computers taking over and putting us out of

work and wants the world to keep up in the race of he machines.