December 22, 2009
Legal Department
Fuck Ed Jagels
Radley Balko bids farewell to Kern County California D.A. Ed Jagels:
You'd be hard pressed to find a law enforcement official anywhere in the country who better embodies the worst excesses of America's sharp turn toward law-and-order crime policy over last 30 years. From expanding the death penalty to eroding the rights of the accused to jacking up prison populations to formulating crime policy around sports metaphors, Jagels created a high-profile position by backing just about every bad crime policy in a generation.
But if history dispenses justice more honorably than Ed Jagels ever did, the boyish-looking D.A. will be most remembered for his role ruining countless lives in perhaps the most shameful of the Reagan-era "tough on crime" debacles: the coast-to-coast sex abuse panic of the 1980s.
It's because of prosecutors like Jagels---and while few are as successful as Jagels, many are trying---that I don't automatically assume the prosecutors are the good guys. From Radley's account, Jagels was a cancer on the California justice system. Yet unlike cancer, he was encouraged to thrive and grow by other people in the system.
Nobody ever held him responsible. Kern county residents paid out millions in settlements for his errors, but Jagels himself escaped scott free. He's advising one of next year's candidates for governor.
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Proving once again that just because you have money and some education, you are still a major idiot. I think Ed Jagels should be absolutely ashamed of himself!
"...to the accusers,they should be suspect". -() My quote ()- Or Perhaps Shakespeare;"Methinks,you lousy piece of garbage, thou doth protest too much" What are you hiding in that slimy life of yours? This scumbag does have a son. I'd certainly check on that situation. Hey PETA , don't forget about the CHEETAH this jerk shot, being big on crime and all. See how "power positions" attract such awful, zero empathetic pukes everywhere. We have to stop being such (&#!!*%) nice guys. Start "thinking for our selves" again, in all Important situations.
2 innocent people died while they were in jail because of him. He disgusts me.
I just learned all about Ed Jagels. I hope some way Ed Jagels pays for his crimes against humanity. Surely there is a Hell that he will be sentenced to suffer in agony till the end of time. The fact this poor excuse for a human being does not think he has done anything wrong to me proves he has got to be a psychopath. A very dangerous person who needs to be locked up for life. This type of personality disorder is to this day an incurable ilness.
Hope he gets fucked in his ass til he dies, worthless old piece of shit
Ed Jagel is responsible for ruining people's lives, little kids lives (who grew up in foster systems, having everyone tell them their parents were evil), and stealing money from the government for not doing work. Someone who manipulates the system in such a way needs to be accountable for such evil. There is no excuse for doing something wrong so many times.
3-strikes your out? Well, you had 25 strikes, now go to jail and take responsibility.