The criminal justice system is broken: Dalsh Veve, Justin Murrell and N.Y.’s lenient punishments

Saturday, June 3, 2017, began just like any other day for myself and Dalsh, but it was that day that our lives would be altered forever. We ate dinner together, and then Dalsh went to work at the 67 Precinct in Brooklyn, where he had served for nearly nine years. I got our 2-year-old daughter, Darshee, ready for bed and we both fell asleep. It was just about midnight when I awoke to loud knocks at our home’s front door. It was one of Dalsh’s fellow officers who, with tears in his eyes, told me he needed to rush me to the hospital because Dalsh had been hurt.