You could look at Warren’s record as a long series of failed opportunities to get convictions. I look at the starting point of his involvement with the criminal justice system and wonder why someone didn’t intervene, early and intensely, in Warren’s life to get him on a different track. At some point, there must have been an opportunity for a course correction. As the former inmate James Featherstone told me last fall: “We fight things from the back end instead of jumping in front. We attack things after they happen, not before they start.”