The Crumple Zone Review Board

You sit on the review board. Read what the public read, divide the responsibility, and lock it in. Then open the investigation file, read what the inquiry found, and divide it again. The distance between your two verdicts is Madeleine Clare Elish’s moral crumple zone, measured on yourself — and the distance between what caused the death and where the punishment landed is the same thing, measured on a legal system.