"We cannot forget that even when this state was at its highest levels of incarceration, tragedies still occurred. We cannot revert to thinking that the solution to any problem is more incarceration . . . when those policies do not make us safer."https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/Don-t-use-S-F-tragedy-to-justify-return-to-15869071.php …
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Replying to @chesaboudin
“Efforts to better protect pedestrians and cyclists from speeding automobiles, where possible with physical barriers, will reduce accidental deaths in our city far more effectively than incarcerating every Troy McAlister who comes along.”
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Replying to @3Sentinel4 @chesaboudin
Overall improvements in pedestrian and cycling safety are absolutely critical to getting to zero traffic fatalities. Locking people up may be necessary in very narrow cases, but overall improvement of the built environment fixes the root problem.
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Like after getting arrested five times for burglaries or auto thefts in less than eight months?
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Yeah, that's terrible. Are you hoping that this specific case be examined so that communities can be made safer in the future or that we return to more "tough on crime" policies that overall hurt society?
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We should turn away from the "soft on crime" policies that are turning SF into a hellhole
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