Crime; Coordinating Justice; the Most Effective Way to Deal with Crime and Other Criminal Justice Issues Is for Police, Prosecutors, Judges and Others to Find Common Ground.

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Although justice is supposed to be blind, it sure doesn't help when the various parts of the criminal justice system -- law enforcement, prosecutors, judges and the local elected officials who help manage the purse strings and shape policy -- are in the dark about what the others are doing.

Unfortunately, they too often are in the dark, not because they set out to be but because the lines of communication and information between the various parts of the system are often short-circuited by misunderstandings, turf battles and worse.

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Crime; Coordinating Justice; the Most Effective Way to Deal with Crime and Other Criminal Justice Issues Is for Police, Prosecutors, Judges and Others to Find Common Ground.

"None of us are even on the same computer program," Milwaukee County Chief Judge Kitty Brennan rightly lament...

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