Baby tests positive for illegal drugs? Arrest the mom.

[SydneyK]

No need - I've been on GC long enough to know threads have a tendency to get off track. At least the current discussion is interesting!

[DrPhil]

Originally Posted by SydneyK

No need - I've been on GC long enough to know threads have a tendency to get off track. At least the current discussion is interesting!

Our bad.

At least we now know Kevin's knowledge and experience with the poor is limited to work with juvenile offenders.

[Kevin]

Originally Posted by DrPhil

Our bad.

At least we now know Kevin's knowledge and experience with the poor is limited to work with juvenile offenders.

No, I don't work on the delinquent docket at all. It would be hard to infer from anything I've said that I work on a delinquent docket. That's okay though, it just shows that you have little knowledge of what a typical juvenile justice system looks like. All of my juvenile work is in representing deprived children or alleged deprived children. They are or allegedly are all the victims of their parents' abuse or neglect. When I'm representing children, it is usually at the show cause (the non-profit I volunteer with provides attorneys to appear at the show cause hearings to take the burden off of the public defender's office) and I appear on the regular juvenile docket when the public defender's office is conflicted out. I also represent parents who are have had their children picked up in trying to reunify the family.

[als463]

Originally Posted by Kevin

No, I don't work on the delinquent docket at all. It would be hard to infer from anything I've said that I work on a delinquent docket. That's okay though, it just shows that you have little knowledge of what a typical juvenile justice system looks like. All of my juvenile work is in representing deprived children or alleged deprived children. They are or allegedly are all the victims of their parents' abuse or neglect. When I'm representing children, it is usually at the show cause (the non-profit I volunteer with provides attorneys to appear at the show cause hearings to take the burden off of the public defender's office) and I appear on the regular juvenile docket when the public defender's office is conflicted out. I also represent parents who are have had their children picked up in trying to reunify the family.

See. When you say the above things regarding volunteering with non-profits, you appear to be a pretty okay guy who many of us would really like and respect. I completely love that you volunteer and I respect that. I think that's great. When you say things where you come off as pretentious by telling people about all your knowledge and how much more you know than them or how much more educated than them you are (or think you are), it's hard to say, "Wow. That Kevin is pretty awesome." I applaud you always taking on the title of "that guy" who will say something that is unpopular because you believe it. I truly like that about you. You just need to work on going out and assuming you know way more than other people. When you do that, it's hard to really appreciate you for the person you are. Just think about it.

[DrPhil]

Originally Posted by als463

See. When you say the above things regarding volunteering with non-profits, you appear to be a pretty okay guy who many of us would really like and respect.

I liken it to the white person who volunteers with Black youth because Black people are supposedly too dumb and need white people to save them. No, thanks we don't need your help. We have genuine people who volunteer and don't think Black people are inferior.

[Kevin]

Originally Posted by als463

See. When you say the above things regarding volunteering with non-profits, you appear to be a pretty okay guy who many of us would really like and respect. I completely love that you volunteer and I respect that. I think that's great. When you say things where you come off as pretentious by telling people about all your knowledge and how much more you know than them or how much more educated than them you are (or think you are), it's hard to say, "Wow. That Kevin is pretty awesome." I applaud you always taking on the title of "that guy" who will say something that is unpopular because you believe it. I truly like that about you. You just need to work on going out and assuming you know way more than other people. When you do that, it's hard to really appreciate you for the person you are. Just think about it.

The thing is though with these families, I work for them pro bono, I see where they live and how they live and really do get to know them a lot of the time. Sometimes, I just get a 15 minute report from a caseworker and then have to do something with it. Other interactions are more in depth.

When I state that I have a lot of experience with poverty and child neglect and abuse, I'm just stating facts. And my experience is vast compared to your average individual.

Education... I wouldn't exactly claim that. I've gone to plenty of juvenile CLEs and as you know, poverty is often a contributing factor to abuse and neglect.. and back to the main topic, in some situations, it is absolutely needed to give law enforcement the power to charge mothers who harm their children in utero criminally.

Keep in mind that for most criminal offenses, especially for females, especially for non-violent offenses, incarceration is not what the prosecutor is going for. There are many wonderful programs like drug court which can provide extra incentive for parents to shake up. I've seen too many times where mothers who really love their kids just can't seem to shake their drug habits. I had one mother who I really went the extra mile for her and got her placed on the state's dime in two different inpatient facilities. She checked herself out both times.

Had she been facing serious time, we might have had better luck.

[DrPhil]

Originally Posted by Kevin

...what a typical juvenile justice system looks like.

Juvenile Justice System:
http://www.ojjdp.gov/ojstatbb/structure_process/

When most of us say we do work in the juvenile justice system we are talking about juvenile offenders, some of who are also victims. We aren't talking about a subset of the system that only deals with juvenile victims.

Ether way, what you do is not a representation of poor people and I'm sure they would be offended to know you deem most of these people as lesser than and unworthy of procreation. That is a slap in the face of community efforts.

[Kevin]

Originally Posted by DrPhil

We aren't talking about a subset of the system that only deals with juvenile victims.

It's not a subset, it's probably more than half of the entire juvenile system. Again, your lack of information here is amusing.

Ether way, what you do is not a representation of poor people and I'm sure they would be offended to know you deem most of these people as lesser than and unworthy of procreation. That is a slap in the face of community efforts.

Well, no. When I represent kids, it is because their parents are being represented by the public defender or the public defender has some other kind of conflict where they're representing the parent in a criminal matter. In these cases, every one of my clients' parents have submitted pauper's affidavits which have been approved by a judge. I don't know how my clients would be offended when their parents have sworn before the court that they are too indigent to hire their own lawyers. When I represent parents, it's because they or someone they know has the money (usually a parent, grandparent or employer) to afford a private attorney.

And I never said they were unworthy of procreation, just that I hoped that if properly incentivized, some people who probably shouldn't reproduce might voluntarily sterilize. You're making this much more of a thing than it actually is with all of these unwarranted assumptions about eugenics.

I'm not aware of eugenics programs ever being voluntary.

[Kevin]

I don't feel like I'm the one being obtuse in this scenario. If you have read all of my posts in this thread, especially in my discussions with als, I don't think there's any way you could reasonably conclude I was representing delinquent children.

[DrPhil]

Originally Posted by Kevin

I don't feel like I'm the one being obtuse in this scenario. If you have read all of my posts in this thread, especially in my discussions with als, I don't think there's any way you could reasonably conclude I was representing delinquent children.

(Your obtuseness is in reference to claiming you are not targeting a specific population for paid sterilization.)

Your posts in this thread could just as easily be about your work with juvenile offenders or juvenile victims. Many juvenile offenders come from troubled backgrounds and that includes juvenile offenders who have been victimized. There are community organizations and people (not only the attorneys) who work closely with the juvenile offenders, spend time with juvenile offenders' families, and in the juvenile offenders' home/neighborhood environments.

But, the points are: (1) "juvenile justice system" within-state and across-state typically refers to the offender populations; and (2) you are not dealing with a representative sample of poor people (the origin of this particular back and forth) and should not support a program that targets poor people based on extremes.

[DrPhil]

Is this an update to the OP?

Hearing delayed

[Kevin]

Originally Posted by DrPhil

(Your obtuseness is in reference to claiming you are not targeting a specific population for paid sterilization.)

Your posts in this thread could just as easily be about your work with juvenile offenders or juvenile victims. Many juvenile offenders come from troubled backgrounds and that includes juvenile offenders who have been victimized. There are community organizations and people (not only the attorneys) who work closely with the juvenile offenders, spend time with juvenile offenders' families, and in the juvenile offenders' home/neighborhood environments.

But, the points are: (1) "juvenile justice system" within-state and across-state typically refers to the offender populations; and (2) you are not dealing with a representative sample of poor people (the origin of this particular back and forth) and should not support a program that targets poor people based on extremes.

Well, as you said, juvenile offenders come from a fairly representative cross-sample of society. Much moreso than what you find in the deprived docket where poverty is almost always a contributing factor and when I'm appointed to a case, it is ALWAYS an aspect of the case.

But it's funny now that I've established my poverty bona fidees, you are wanting to talk about how you must insist referring to the juvenile justice system and not specifying that I'm talking about deprived cases when that fact was obvious to anyone from the context and you not picking up on it was obviously my mistake is your big deal of the thread now. Let's definitely change the subject.

And I never said I was dealing with a representative sample of poor people. Just the ones who abuse or neglect their children or are at least accused of doing that.

[DrPhil]

Originally Posted by Kevin

And I never said I was dealing with a representative sample of poor people.

Good.

[Kevin]

I'm wondering whether you have a few screws loose.