Sentences with phrase «often abdicate responsibility»

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And this is where I believe a lot of the rhetoric against institutions falls down because not only does it most often ignore the central problem (heart issues), it also abdicates critics of their responsibility for their own heart issues and how it affects the situation.

The lawsuit charged that New York State's decision to abdicate responsibility for public defense to its counties resulted in a patchwork of often understaffed, poorly resourced and largely dysfunctional public defense systems where defendants were routinely arraigned without attorneys, urged to take plea bargains regardless of the facts of their cases, burdened by excessively high bail, and incarcerated for shockingly long periods for misdemeanors and petty crimes.