Chair Brooks-Powers on impact of delays on victims and community confidence

Those consequences are felt not only by people unnecessarily detained, but also by crime victims and their loved ones.

When someone is victimized,

especially by an act of violence, we should expect swift accountability.

When justice is delayed, especially in communities where immediate consequences for minor offenses are frequent and highly visible, people rightly lose confidence in the criminal justice system, the criminal legal system.

As a result, we are all left less safe.