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NY Times Op Ed: Bob Herbert: Cruel and Gratuitous

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

February 16, 2008 Op-Ed Columnist Cruel and Gratuitous By BOB HERBERT, NY Times It happened last spring. The police commissioner?s office and a New York City police captain tried to convince the public that a marauding band of kids had gotten out of control and terrified residents, motorists and pedestrians on a street in the Bushwick section of Brooklyn. The cops were wrong. And they must have known that they were wrong, that the picture they were creating of youngsters climbing on top of cars and blocking vehicular and pedestrian traffic was completely false. The Brooklyn district attorney, Charles Hynes, carried the canard further. That had to have been deliberate, too. He went on the Brian Lehrer radio program on WNYC and said that his office had investigated the matter ? had conducted what he described as an ?independent inquiry...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on February 19, 2008 (boomark / email).