A selection of John Pfaff‘s interview with David Brooks of the New York Times reappeared in a story in the American Interest.
Silverglate’s observations are consistent with the views of Fordham Law professor John Pfaff, whom David Brooks interviewed for a New York Times column last month:
Pfaff’s theory is that it’s the prosecutors. District attorneys and their assistants have gotten a lot more aggressive in bringing felony charges. Twenty years ago they brought felony charges against about one in three arrestees. Now it’s something like two in three. That produces a lot more plea bargains and a lot more prison terms.