When loss of long term life is a likely hood and central to the evaluation of reducing incarceration, short term quality of life should be sacrificed to increase the number of quality lives that may be lived after the epidemiological crisis. Hard to have a quality life when dead.
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Replying to @netfire4 @MikeWaxonWaxoff and
Why are hotels safer than prisons if we are supposedly protecting people from Covid?
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Replying to @sf_kerry @MikeWaxonWaxoff and
It's actually protecting the general public, and not about the lives of the prisoners themselves. Prisons unlikely hotels do not offer their residents the opportunity to socially distance, eat communally, and their restroom/bathing facilities are shared.
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Replying to @netfire4 @MikeWaxonWaxoff and
I hear that crime in the Marina has gone up due to prisoners moving into the hotels on Lombard and robbing the residents.
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Replying to @sf_kerry @MikeWaxonWaxoff and
Understood, the lack of shelters, reductions in incarceration and economic malaise have made people more desperate. That desperation has sadly fueled a wave a crime, but the reality remains this situation is safer than, sustaining our existentially risky mass incarceration.
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I was raised in a high crime area, went to 90% bipoc public schools. People were more scared of rats than a guy with a gun. They would want to fight 10 people, but would run if they thought there was a ghost. Scared of dying in a COVID infested prisons may be a good deterrent.
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Replying to @MikeWaxonWaxoff @sf_kerry and
"Prisons are good for punishing criminals and keeping them off the street, but prison sentences (particularly long sentences) are unlikely to deter future crime. Prisons actually may have the opposite effect: Inmates learn more effective crime strategies.https://nij.ojp.gov/topics/articles/five-things-about-deterrence#:~:text=Sending%20an%20individual%20convicted%20of,unlikely%20to%20deter%20future%20crime …
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I agree, I don't want prisons. I want them gone. Even in the highest crime demographic, a majority don't resort to crime, right? I think our supportive system has the unfortunate side effect of not hurting them enough to change. Renounce citizenship and live free elsewhere.
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Replying to @MikeWaxonWaxoff @sf_kerry and
When we overpolice a specific demographic we find more crime there, I think behavior has very little to do with who we criminalize. Imo it's mostly criminalization of poverty.
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Overpolicing is chicken vs egg. i.e Racism =security packaging on the most commonly stolen products? Funny in SF, bad areas could be good if people behaved better. It's 100% on them. Same Houses, same amenities, it's just behaviors. By removing criminals, poor become good.pic.twitter.com/elkJaR3QpP
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Who leaves their trash on corner in OMI, but not Sunset/Richmond. Whose kids graffiti? Why do poor have bars on windows? Allowing criminals to run free, the dealer/pimp/gangster are the "role models" that kids aspire to be. If they are never seen again, they cannot be emulated
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