While many of the victims involved in Hamilton County special prosecutor Austin Scofield’s cases are people who have committed crimes themselves, no one has the right to be the judge and the executioner out on the streets, he said.
“If everybody’s running around just doing whatever they want, I mean that’s chaos,” Scofield said in an interview. “Certainly, yes, a lot of my victims on my cases other days are doing stuff that citizens would not appreciate, but if one guy in a gang goes shooting another guy in a gang, that’s not the end of it.”
When gang members retaliate, they go elsewhere when they “can’t get guy No. 1,” he said. They shoot the target’s friends or shoot up the target’s family home.
Bullets don’t have names on them, and the shooters aren’t expert marksmen, he said.