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SF's Political Correctness Takes Mirkarimi Prisoner

McGovern Wrote: Apr 29, 2012 10:56 AM

There is no greater lunacy than Child Protective Services taking children from parents because the parent spanked them and a neighbor reported it. We're not talking beating. We're talking swats on the butt. Our culture has gone this way, and what happens in California generally ends up across the country.

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SF's Political Correctness Takes Mirkarimi Prisoner

Former San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Brown is appalled. He didn't vote for Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi, and he isn't his biggest fan. But when he considers the prosecution of Mirkarimi for bruising his wife's arm during a New Year's Eve argument, he is appalled. People lose sight of what types of cases should be prosecuted, Brown told me Tuesday, and Mirkarimi's case is not one of them.

"Sometimes you have to break it off," Brown said, as "Cyrus Vance did in New York City." The Manhattan district attorney dropped rape charges against former International Monetary Fund head Dominique Strauss-Kahn last year because...

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