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Article: Criminal Enforcement Redundancy: Oversight of Decisions Not to Prosecute
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User Name: DAVID SCHOEN Date and Time: Thursday, February 28, 2019 10:34:00 AM EST Job Number: 83853687 Document (1) 1. Article: Criminal Enforcement Redundancy: Oversight of Decisions Not to Prosecute, 103 Minn. L. Rev. 844 Client/Matter: -None- Search Terms: cvra and sixth amendment Search Type: Terms and Connectors Narrowed by: Content Type Narrowed by Secondary Materials Sources: Law Reviews and Journals | About LexisNexis | Privacy Policy | Terms & Conditions | Copyright © 2019 LexisNexis DAVID SCHOEN Article: Criminal Enforcement Redundancy: Oversight of Decisions Not to Prosecute Reporter 103 Minn. L. Rev. 844 * December, 2018 Length: 23570 words Author: Darryl K. Brown* + O. M. Vicars Professor of Law and Barron F. Black Research Professor of Law, University of Virginia School of Law. Copyright © 2018 by Darryl K. Brown. Text [*844] INTRODUCTION In light of concerns about mass incarceration and excessive search practices by police, 1 underenforcement of criminal law is not the first problem that springs to mind for American criminal justice. But in fact, some of the prominent contemporary complaints about U.S. criminal justice, as well as some longstanding ones, object to underenforcement of criminal law. Two of the most notable categories are failures to prosecute in cases of unjustified police violence, especially against nonwhite victims, and in cases of sexual assaults. Lower-profile examples abound as well, as do historical examples. Given the nation's history, underenforcement problems are often related to race. Insufficient law enforcement attention to crimes in minority neighborhoods, for example, has been criticized as depriving African American victims and communities of their fair share of government protection from criminal harm. 2 In earlier eras, law enforcement inattention to, or wholesale neglect [*845] of, white offenders' victimization of black victims - in lynchings, attacks on civil right activists, sexual assaults, and other contexts - […]