Does "the Left" have a crime problem, i.e., do we avoid or downplay the topic because it's taboo or reactionary? Regardless, that's our rep.
@alexbelkins I do wish left-of-center scholars of our harsh justice system would face head on the nat'l spike in crime 1960-91–oft avoided.
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@ChMadar To our absolute detriment that we don't deal with this more directly, I think. The communities hardest hit surely want us to. -
@alexbelkins And the implication isn't that overpolicing and hyperincarceration are the right responses to concentrated high crime rates. -
@ChMadar I think that implication--and the racist hysteria around black-on-black crime--encourages Left avoidance of the topic.
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