re: DA’s should be held accountable

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reductio ad absurdum

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Cost

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Call it a one-time expenditure of $25 billion to build the necessary additional courtrooms across the country and another $15 billion per year to staff and run them.

Then add the extra district attorneys. Let’s be conservative and say one assistant district attorney per court, +2 support personnel. The cost there is another 8 billion per year

VERY rough estimate (and probably low by as much as 50 to 100%), but does that seem like a worthwhile expenditure to avoid a few hundred major felonies by recidivists?

And that does not take into account the crimes that will be committed by the criminals who get tried but not convicted because DAs are afraid to plea bargain. those folks are back on the street committing crimes immediately, rather than 3 to 5 years down the line as would be the case if the DA we’re not afraid to enter into a plea bargain. Personally, I think there would be about a net balance of those cases against the recidivists. Meaning of the net reduction in crime will essentially be zero, at quadruple the cost.