[Trigger warning for violence.]
$800,000: The estimated annual cost of prosecuting misdemeanors and jailing convicted offenders in Topeka, Kansas, which the Topeka City Council says it can no longer afford, so "city and county authorities have neglected to prosecute or charge people suspected of domestic battery since Sept. 8. In other words, the local justice system has spent a month effectively sending the message that misdemeanor domestic assault will go unpunished—at least for now."
I am without words.
[H/T to everyone in the multiverse, and thanks to each and every one of you for sending it along.]
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