Green vs Briggs - Choose his facts or her fiction
Did you catch the D&C Article today by Gary Craig? There was a face off between D.A. Mike Green and challenger Cara Briggs.
Briggs, who served as an assistant district attorney for 17 years before leaving in 2005, said 85 prosecutors have left the office since 2001, when Green became first assistant district attorney, the second ranking position in the office.
“That means that more people have left than have stayed” since 2001, she said.
The turnover has left serious cases in the hands of inexperienced prosecutors, leading to acquittals in some major homicides, she said.
Green answered that it’s unfair to use 2001 as the starting point since he became district attorney in 2004. “Let’s use accurate data,” he said. (Briggs said after the session that 45 have left since 2004, but that it’s fair to use 2001 since Green was integral in office administration as first assistant district attorney.)
Seems Ms Briggs is making an issue out of the all the Assistant D.A.s that have left the office. She cites the fact that since 2001, 85 A.D.A.s have left which is more than currently are in the department?
First off - I don’t understand Republican or Democrat party affiliation when it comes to Judges or D.A. Is there is a different set of laws that get enforced if the Republican or Democrat get elected? Hope not.
But we do have different election tactics when it comes to getting elected truth and misiformation. Briggs cites the 2001 statistic. Well, What she fails to mention is that Mike Green wasn’t even the D.A until 2004. If you read the article, 40 people left while SHE WAS PART OF THE D.A.s OFFICE AS AN A.D.A. Maybe she was the problem? Probably not but why does she mention dates when he wasn’t in charge?
Oh did the fact that the Republican legislature is withholding money for the D.A.s office get mentioned?
Just another example of more misleading data (like this) designed to clutter the voters.
She should know better.
She does know better, and that’s the problem.
Briggs’ accusations are ridiculous to say the least. But on a slightly seperate note, at the same lunch yesterday, she and Green gave thier differing views on poverty’s relationship to crime, namely, Briggs doesn’t think there is one. She argues that abuse in the home is a bigger cause of city crime than poverty…now I could be wrong but I’m pretty sure it’s widely accepted that poverty leads to crime.
Unfortunately, poverty also plays a role in abuse!
it is an interesting office to have politicized, but since it is, let’s have at it. i don’t see turnover as a big deal in the legal profession in general. private practice can be quite lucrative after all. a lot of these folks probably are idealists, but burn out and cash in their experience for 6 figure salaries. and a few, like rick keenan, have gone on to become judges.