excellent piece!
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Are there prosecutorial choices that get to the structural issues more than others, or is this an inherent limitation of crim law?
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that is the question, which one could devote several lifetimes to answering... any reading list you might suggest most welcome!
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the subject of one of my long-term back-burner projects w/
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great essay. your arg resonates with those (myself included) who charge that broader state failures explain much over-policing.
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Yes, police & prosecutors as a last-ditch, often only-ditch, heavily invasive form of state action.
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Esp in poor urban enclaves abandoned by welfare state programs that had created and sustained the white middle class.
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been thinking of this a lot where I live, even "good" policing ends up an inept substitute for a missing welfare state
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Yes-z.B. stationing a few naloxone nurses in local precinct rather than shifting drug abuse authority to DeptOfHealth
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our chief touted partnership with a private org to hand out cards for rehab services when they revive with naloxone
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there's a reason Cinci police chief called stop-and-frisk dragnet policing "cheap urban renewal" in late 1950s—it was.
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