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Tiz a puzzlement! On one hand we try to remove risk from our streets and lives and on another, we try to rehabilitate. Rehabilitation makes sense but how do we tell. How do we know the right measurements and how do we ensure we have the best judgement.

Johnny's story sounds obvious, but when did it become obvious? If now why not some time earlier in Johnny's journey?

It seems removing offenders from our lives and rehabilitation are two different mindsets and too complicated for one system to handle reliably. Daniel Kahneman reminds us in "NOISE" (error in judgement), that judges can't even apply their own judgement and craft reliably.

Johnny may be (now) easy to make a judgement on. But how do we make this work for everyone if we have not figured it out by now. Tiz a puzzlement!

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