The United States is gearing up for three presidential debates, with the first one in late September, in anticipation of one of the most heated elections in history.  We can expect to see insults hurled during the three debates, yet most of the discussion will surround the parties' policy differences.  One of the more pressing disputed issues will be the proper approach to criminal justice reform. Two significant criminal justice reform issues need to be thoroughly discussed by the dueling parties.  The first is how politicians have put both federal and state police in formidable positions with policies that force them to make arrests for relatively minor crimes.  The second is how politicians have tossed aside traditionally used evidence of testimony and documents in favor of broad inferences based solely on the over-reliance of generalized datasets to make insufficient diversity a crime.  Not only have we substituted evidence...(Read Full Post)