{"id":2245,"date":"2009-11-29T03:59:40","date_gmt":"2009-11-29T02:59:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whiteberg.dk\/2009\/11\/29\/radley-balko-om-det-amerikanske-retssystem\/"},"modified":"2009-11-29T03:59:40","modified_gmt":"2009-11-29T02:59:40","slug":"radley-balko-om-det-amerikanske-retssystem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.whiteberg.dk\/?p=2245","title":{"rendered":"Radley Balko om det amerikanske retssystem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theagitator.com\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\">Radley Balko<\/a> er en af USAs mest indflydelsesrige klassisk liberale (&#8220;libertarian&#8221;) journalister, og han har blandt andet for <strong>Reason Magazine<\/strong> afd\u00e6kket de d\u00e5rlige retssikkerhedsm\u00e6ssige vilk\u00e5r og de sk\u00e6ve incitamentstrukturer i det amerikanske retssystem. Han har skrevet om magtmisbrug i politiets narkoefterforskning (fx den vanvittige brug af milit\u00e6re SWAT-teams overfor helt almindelige mennesker), om fusk med retsmedicinske beviser og om sagen om <a href=\"http:\/\/reason.com\/archives\/2009\/11\/23\/a-new-trial-for-cory-maye\" target=\"_blank\">Corey Maye fra Mississippi<\/a>, der sandsynligvis blev uretf\u00e6rdigt d\u00f8dsd\u00f8mt. (Her er en kort film om <a href=\"http:\/\/reason.tv\/video\/show\/mississippi-drug-war-blues\" target=\"_blank\">Maye-sagen<\/a>, hvor Balkos d\u00e6kning har spillet en vigtig rolle i at f\u00e5 en ny retssag for Maye). Nu er Balko ogs\u00e5 n\u00e5et til <strong>The Economist<\/strong>s sider med et <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/blogs\/democracyinamerica\/2009\/11\/five_questions_for_radley_balk\" target=\"_blank\">godt interview<\/a>. L\u00e6s det hele, men her er et uddrag:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>DIA:<\/strong> <em>Beyond the two discussed above, what are the most critical flaws in America&#8217;s criminal justice system?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mr Balko:<\/strong><br \/>\nIncentives. At every step in the process, the incentive is toward putting people in jail. And there&#8217;s almost no penalty at all for state actors who overstep their authority. Police departments, for example, get federal anti-drug grants based in large part on how many people they arrest on drug charges. After the botched drug raid in Atlanta a few years ago in which a raiding police team shot and killed an innocent 92-year-old woman, we learned in subsequent investigations that officers had monthly quotas for drug arrests and drug seizures. Ed Burns, the former Baltimore cop and co-creator of the magnificent HBO show &#8220;The Wire&#8221;, talks about this quite a bit.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Radley Balko er en af USAs mest indflydelsesrige klassisk liberale (&#8220;libertarian&#8221;) journalister, og han har blandt andet for Reason Magazine afd\u00e6kket de d\u00e5rlige retssikkerhedsm\u00e6ssige vilk\u00e5r og de sk\u00e6ve incitamentstrukturer i det amerikanske retssystem. Han har skrevet om magtmisbrug i politiets narkoefterforskning (fx den vanvittige brug af milit\u00e6re SWAT-teams overfor helt almindelige mennesker), om fusk med &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whiteberg.dk\/?p=2245\" class=\"more-link\">L\u00e6s mere <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Radley Balko om det amerikanske retssystem<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[189,264,268,319],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whiteberg.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2245"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whiteberg.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whiteberg.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whiteberg.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whiteberg.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.whiteberg.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whiteberg.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whiteberg.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whiteberg.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}