Review of School Daze

I was disturbed by Abbie's total lack of empathy toward the perpetrator and his parents in this episode. She had no understanding of the parents as they portrayed how difficult and dangerous their son was and how gut-wrenching it was to not understand why this was so. My heart went out to the father as he made his final decision about his son's future. Why didn't Abbie's?

I doubt that Abbie was an "outie" in high school. But, I would have expected that by now she could walk in another's shoes without undermining her effectiveness as a prosecutor. Jack McCoy could.