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If the City didn't pay the Legal Aid Society to represent criminal defendants, the City would have to do it itself, building a criminal defense practice from scratch. It would cost a lot more

"the City would have to do it itself"? Haha! Same difference, as we say in New York! The city ALREADY pays TAXPAYER DOLLARS to these leftist swindlers.

The help prevent the government from imprisoning anyone the government feels like it. They are a brake to government power by making the government prove it's case before the government tries to take away our freedom.

What universe are you living in? The Legal Aid Society goes out and grabs people by the collar to drag them INTO lawsuits, so they can have some kind of class-action against the TAXPAYERS.

E.g., the Legal Aid Society goes out and RECRUITS druggies who've been tossed out of federally-subsidized housing, sues the heck out of the government for protecting the law-abiding tenants, and we TAXPAYERS pay damages to the criminals.

If that's your idea of "the government taking away our freedom," you are living in a left-wing universe, Mr. BikerNYC.

You're such a cheerleader for Legal Aid Society, I have to ask: Are you a Legal Aid lawyer/liar?

What universe are you living in? The Legal Aid Society goes out and grabs people by the collar to drag them INTO lawsuits, so they can have some kind of class-action against the TAXPAYERS.

What universe am I living in? Have you even bothered to read the article? We are not talking about lawsuits suing slumlords for rat-infested housing. These are criminal charges. The primary mission of the LAS is to act as defense counsel for people where the government has made allegations against them and wishes to take away a person's freedom.

If you have that much faith in government prosecutors and their ability to correctly and fairly charge people with crimes in each and every case, god bless ya. I'm sure you were quite happy with whatever charges that were handed down in the Waco, Ruby Ridge and other cases, and that those folks were being represented by left-wing radicals intent on destroying civilization as you know it.

Deal with the issue in the article: criminal accusations made by the government in an effort to take away people's freedom. If keeping a check on government power means anything, it means forcing the government to prove its case beyond a reasonable doubt as to each and every individual the government seeks to incarcerate.

And, no, I don't work for the Legal Aid Society.