Part of the broken system. It’s designed to treat people like animals while in jail, send them out with a felony on their record with no way to get a job and survive on the outside. Keeps the for profit prisons filled with cheap labor for corporations. A new form of slavery.
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Talk to
@BillClinton, who signed and@JoeBiden who authored, the 1994 Tough On Crime Bill and created Mandatory Minimum Sentances. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vox.com/platform/amp/policy-and-politics/2019/6/20/18677998/joe-biden-1994-crime-bill-law-mass-incarceration …#TheMoreYouKnow1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
The “tough on crime” criminalization started with Reagan, but yes, both parties have been responsible over the years. It’s a terrible evil system. We have 4.5% of the world’s population and 25% of the world’s incarcerated population. It’s a cruel punitive system with no benefit.
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No, we just don’t like criminals wandering around.
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If you don’t like “criminals running around” you have to think a little deeper why society is the way it is. The current system is broken. What do you think is going to happen when someone with a record can’t get a job? You think they’re just going to starve to death?
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If you break the law, it’s your fault. I have no patience for excuses. Good or bad.
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If you want less crime we have to change the system and understand that what we are doing is not working. I used to have the same beliefs as you do. It just doesn’t work. A guy in Alamo throwing coke parties at his house is not going to be arrested like a kid at 6th & Market.
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I grew up in the same neighborhood as Dan White, good old twinky defense himself and I came out okay. Humans with good principles and values don’t commit crimes. Seems you just want a free ride and no consequences. That’s never going to happen. Have a good one.
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Did you ever do anything illegal in your lifetime but were never caught? Perhaps as a young man growing up? Did you smoke pot, did you drive intoxicated, did you take something from a store when you didn’t have money? Young people make mistakes. Some get away with it, some don’t.
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And some are returned to the streets to deal lethal narcotics over and over and over again. Policing is far from perfect anywhere in the US., but with
@chesaboudin at the helm, it’s taken on a new dysfunction. Why aren’t arrests and sentencing even a small part of that equation?2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
So the answer in lock up more people for longer periods of time? How long do you think it will take to get them to stop selling when they get out? Two year? 5 years? Ten years? 20 years? You don’t mind spending your tax money on that? Why not jail for life? That will fix it.
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No, not more people for longer periods of time. What recidivist felon dealers do for a living, without any real consequence, is literally killing addicts. Nearly one a day on SF streets.
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How do we stop what’s going on in the streets and in society? Injustice creates crime, homelessness, blight, etc.. Just societies have very low crime rates. Police are needed to control the symptoms of injustice in unjust societies. Police are here to play wack a mole.
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