[Editor's note: This column was submitted in response to Bankruptcy Judge Shelley Chapman's op-ed "Judges Should Welcome Feedback and Scrutiny, Not Seek to Evade It," which the New York Law Journal published June 28.]
Last month, the Law Journal published an article I wrote about a report titled “Cost of Discretion: Judicial Decision-Making, Pre-trial Detention, and Public Safety in New York City,” that was jointly authored by two organizations, Scrutinize and the QSIDE Institute, in conjunction with the Zimroth Center at NYU Law School.
