Healthcare professionals demanded we drastically reduce the jail population, so we listened. On Jan 21, the SF jail population was 1,238. On March 4, when the emergency was declared, it was 1,097. Yesterday, it was 766. Meanwhile, crime rates continue to decrease in SF.
If we let a guy out of jail and he murders someone in a robbery but doesn’t get corona is that a win for public health. Doctors are notoriously myopic and only care about their specialty. They keep dying people alive longer than they need to be, prolonging their suffering.
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You’re operating on the assumption that that is a likely scenario. There is a much higher chance that someone will get corona AND die in jail/prison, then there is that a released prisoner is going to murder someone. It’s pure willie Hortonism to think otherwise.
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Release 1000 prisoners and something bad will happen. Pick 1000 people at random and one of them will do something terrible. Those people didn’t wind up in jail by accident. Have you ever met someone with a low iq and almost no impulse control?
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