Hennepin County prosecutor declines to charge teen murderers as adults, will be free at 21

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It’s really getting frustrating how frequently progressive-oriented officials end up making a mockery of reform movements through boneheaded decisions such as this. The curse of ideologues of every stripe is their inability to grasp the finite nature of the extended public trust that puts them in power. This country is not one with a soft spot for criminals, which is what has allowed well documented inequities and abuses within the law enforcement and criminal justice system to perpetuate for far longer than they’ve had any right to. It’s taken decades of advocacy to get the public to take the progressive program for criminal justice reform seriously and it will take far less time than that for the electorate to revert to a tough on crime posture if these are the kinds of results they can expect.