The outrageous

OUTRAGE: I’ll get you, my pretty — and your little job too

• Who: Employers

• What: Retaliating against workers who file complaints.

• Why it’s a bad idea: The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission says that retribution claims are the second-most frequent claims filed with it after racial discrimination, so clearly it’s a problem. If workers can’t report discrimination, then abuse will continue; it’s that simple.

•  Why they are doing it: No one likes to hear he is not doing a good job, especially when it comes from a worker he is supervising, but that’s no call to find a reason to fire someone or to demote him. Seems like sour grapes to us.

Where to support: eeoc.gov

DIM BULB If the charges do not fit, juries must acquit.
Forget the constitutionality of a regional jury pool for Baltimore City — we don’t need one. Here, the low conviction rate has more to do with shoddy police work than it does with jury bias. We run into so many cases where police grab and charge the wrong person. They aren’t convicted, and voila! The police find someone new to charge. Take the Terry Jones case. Jones was charged with and tried for murder of a 15-year-old girl. He was eventually found not guilty — after he spent a year in jail. He filed suit in September saying the officer falsified DNA evidence because he was under pressure to solve the case. And the city wonders where the low conviction rate comes from? Let’s worry about improving our police force and put the regional jury idea on hold.