Radley Balko interviews Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins, who is dramatically moving his office away from a traditional "convict at all costs" mentality, to a philosophy that the prosecutors' role is to pursue justice, not rack up convictions.

Balko suggests he's America's best prosecutor. I don't know about that, and the interview doesn't actual discuss his skills in prosecuting crimes. But Watkins certainly seems like a fair-minded breath of fresh air, who takes the biblical injunction "tzedek, tzedek tirdof" (justice, justice thou shalt pursue) seriously.