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.
The problem is we're not doing any of that. We're arresting and releasing drug offenders and sellers into diversion programs that don't exist. Which does nothing for them, it endangers innocent people, and kills drug abusers. The decriminalization of drug abuse hasn't worked here
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Talk to the thousands of people who live in Tenderloin and SOMA and you'll see. Our interpretation of decriminalization of drug abuse has not helped.
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As the home of historic mass incarceration, imprisoning both the greatest number and the greatest percentage of our population in the history of man. We have absolutely not tried anything resembling decriminalization.
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In China or Saudi Arabia, you could be arrested simply for exercising your right to free speech. And then you might disappear, in which case you would not be counted as a prisoner anymore. So to imply that our justice system is the most unfair in the world is quite simply naive.
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