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In 2007, I became the attorney general of the state of New Jersey.
2007年，我擔(dān)任了新澤西州的司法部長(zhǎng)。
Before that, I'd been a criminal prosecutor, first in the Manhattan district attorney's office,
在那之前，我曾是一名刑事檢察官，先是在曼哈頓地區(qū)檢查官辦公室，
and then at the United States Department of Justice.
后來(lái)是在國(guó)家司法部。
But when I became the attorney general, two things happened that changed the way I see criminal justice.
但是在擔(dān)任司法部長(zhǎng)之后，發(fā)生了兩件事讓我改變了對(duì)刑事司法的看法。
The first is that I asked what I thought were really basic questions.
第一個(gè)是我提出我所認(rèn)為的很基本的問(wèn)題。
I wanted to understand who we were arresting, who we were charging,
我想要了解我們逮捕的是什么人，我們指控的是什么人，
and who we were putting in our nation's jails and prisons.
還有我們是將什么樣的人關(guān)進(jìn)看守所和監(jiān)獄。
I also wanted to understand if we were making decisions in a way that made us safer.
我也想要了解我們所做的決定是否會(huì)讓民眾更加安全。
And I couldn't get this information out.
但我無(wú)法獲取這類信息。
It turned out that most big criminal justice agencies like my own didn't track the things that matter.
原來(lái)多數(shù)大型刑事司法機(jī)構(gòu)就像我工作的地方，他們并沒(méi)有對(duì)真正重要的事情進(jìn)行持續(xù)的跟蹤調(diào)查和記錄。
So after about a month of being incredibly frustrated,
所以經(jīng)歷了約一個(gè)月的異常沮喪之后，
I walked down into a conference room that was filled with detectives and stacks and stacks of case files,
我走進(jìn)一個(gè)會(huì)議室滿屋都是探員和成堆成堆的案件檔案，
and the detectives were sitting there with yellow legal pads taking notes.
探員們坐在那里用黃色便箋簿作著筆記。
They were trying to get the information I was looking for by going through case by case for the past five years.
他們?cè)噲D獲取的信息就是我一直在尋找的通過(guò)逐個(gè)分析過(guò)去的五年間的所有案件。
And as you can imagine, when we finally got the results, they weren't good.
你可以想象我們終于得出的結(jié)果并不是很理想。
It turned out that we were doing a lot of low-level drug cases on the streets just around the corner from our office in Trenton.
原來(lái)我們一直在做很多低級(jí)的毒品案件，就在拐角處的街道上，離我們?cè)谔貍愵D的辦公室不遠(yuǎn)。
