3/x You're right about incarceration being prohibitively expensive and overused as a solution. But we live by a social contract to respect property and treat neighbors with consideration. There are rules and there has to be consequences enough to deter breaking them.
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Replying to @SF_Shoobie @michelletandler and
"prison sentences (particularly long sentences) are unlikely to deter future crime. Prisons actually may have the opposite effect: Inmates learn more effective crime strategies from each other,"https://nij.ojp.gov/topics/articles/five-things-about-deterrence …
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Replying to @netfire4 @michelletandler and
My argument is not that prison is the best solution nor an effective one. I'm arguing it's better than our 2020 COVID-safe approach: "we will yell about masks and impose quarantines but will ignore everything else, including vehicle theft, car break-ins and stayaway orders"
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Replying to @SF_Shoobie @michelletandler and
Well you are complaining about one of the most effective responses, as the epidemiological epicenter of this crisis, our
@SF_DPH had previously tasked@chesaboudin with reducing incarceration by 300 non-violent people, of which you seem to complain about? https://sfdistrictattorney.org/policy/justice-driven-data/an-epidemic-inside-a-pandemic/ …pic.twitter.com/sHtvne6mvw
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Replying to @netfire4 @michelletandler and
I'm not complaining about the risk of COVID in our jails. I'm complaining about the excusing of what I'd call "heavy crime" simply because a proven and undeterred criminal may be exposed to COVID in jail. I have no empathy for those who can't treat their community with respect.
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Replying to @SF_Shoobie @michelletandler and
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Replying to @netfire4 @michelletandler and
I never said that the guy deserves to get COVID, I said he deserves to be in prison. His conduct is extremely detrimental to an already struggling community. My sentiment was that he has no one to blame but himself for being incarcerated - thereby increasing his risk of COVID.
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Replying to @SF_Shoobie @michelletandler and
The punishing being more important than either the epidemiological crisis occurring in society at large or the prison specifically?
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Replying to @netfire4 @michelletandler and
Again, you're wrong. It's not the punishing that is important - it is the removal this individual from society where he is causing pain to his law-abiding neighbors. I'm sorry, it's not ok to repeatedly steal vehicles with no repercussions and it's not ok to excuse this behavior.
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Replying to @SF_Shoobie @michelletandler and
I disagree that jail or prison effectively "remove" the individual from society, prohibitively costly in aggregate, and the epicenter of this epidemiological crisis, incarceration regularly but especially right now inflicts the greater pain on society.
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I don't care what happens to him as long as he's not on the street continuing to traumatize a community that is already reeling from COVID. You can take him in and babysit him and if you do it effectively I'm glad to give you a healthy chunk of our inflated city budget.
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