Yours truly, on another Saturday morning special episode of Not Quite Quorum podcast, where (partner and city councilor extraordinaire) Laura Bergus discussing the proposed new Johnson County jail, focusing on how we define “public safety,” and why it must be different than just the reactive State punishment system. Also Lauren Whitehead’s letter to the editor in Little Village:
The other thing that I just wanted to object to in Lauren’s piece was she refers to operating a jail is something the county is legally and morally obligated to maintain.
And I just want to take a quick moment to remind our listeners that things we have legal obligations to are not the same things that we have moral obligations to. Those are different things.
We have a moral obligation for accountability. And that’s not punishment.
So trying to turn this into a moral obligation of local government is kind of gross, actually.