

Green, the DA, said he felt deflection was a better path to treatment than the criminal system, which can be a slow process, and that the fact that only some people were succeeding was a good sign: “We didn’t [make it] too easy or too hard. We really found that sweet spot.”
Oh fuck you. 70 or so people deflecting out of 1200 arrests is not success you pompous prick, it’s failure.
Did you miss the entire part of the article talking about how this effectively locks up the court system, deprives US citizens of their constitutional right to representation, and does effectively nothing to actually get people off drugs?
Tell me more about how you like punishing the poor for being poor, though.