A lot of people mentioning innocent people being convicted. Instead of that being the reason not to punish folks, maybe it should be the reason to start holding people accountable for massive failures, rather than allowing things to be swept under the rug and pretend people arent awful at their jobs.
Its all a sympom of previous generations deference to authority, based on the assumtion the authority figure is acting in a competent-let alone satisfactory manner. Judges, cops, politicians, refs, whatever. They are all merely people. They make mistakes, act maliciously, etc. But because of the societal deference, they rarely have to own their mistakes, let alone be held accountable.
Im paying my lawyer right now because a judge issued an order DOR can't use (all involved have literally said she should have known better), while the ex's employer takes child support out of her check (seen the stubs) and then doesn't issue payment (they have 3 days, legally) for weeks.
And dcf/other state equivalents are useless. If you dont kiss their ass and jump through their insane hoops, you are enemy number one, regardless of the mountain of evidence to support your claims, and criminal/probate court rulings in your favor. But, if you actually did whatever is in question, you likely "play ball," and nothing happens, because your "cooperating." But if you tell them one specific worker who continues to make threats during visits (multiple parties witness to the last ones) is no longer allowed on the property/visit kids at daycare, they decide to close the case because "non cooperation." Its all a massive ****ing joke.
Dcf loves to harass people who shouldnt be bothered while talking up scum bags who have no right being near children. To top it off, (at least in late 17 when my experience started) they are in contempt of federal court for the conditions children live in who are under their care. So on top of being incompetent, their hypocrites. Just another example of Massachusetts not holding itself to the standards of Joe Carpenter. Though Jose Carpentero gets a bailiff escort out the backdoor to avoid ice detention when facing dui and trafficing charges.
It'd be nice to see the judges that ordered the Purdue Pharma marketing evidence sealed for the last 12 years held accountable for the thousands of deaths and millions of addicts they literally enabled Purdue to create, and monetize, but that will never happen. Instead, the courts see they are implicit, so junkies can literally use their habit as a hardship to get out of child support obligations (not making this up), citing the cost of methodone (its just ****ing heroin, it is in no manner a medicine) for their hardship. Best part of all that is most professionals agree that the best treatment is getting rhrough withdrawals, not providing another substance to push them off and kick facing the issue head on down the road.
