Posts in month: September, 2009

I didn’t plan to spend 25 years in the domestic violence movement. I didn’t even start my career knowing what domestic violence was. I went through Stanford and UCLA and never heard the phrase. I started my career as a prosecutor with every intention of doing some misdemeanors and then working my way up to felonies and then becoming a homicide prosecutor. After all, it is “just a misdemeanor.” It is “only a misdemeanor.” Cops, detectives, prosecutors, probation officers, and judges get treated as important when they handle the big cases not the little ones. If you want to be somebody in the criminal justice system in America, you need to do the “big cases.” If you want to be somebody, you need to handle the big felonies. Anybody who has been around a long time should be doing felonies or there is something wrong with them, right? Read more »