As our country comes to terms with the damage caused by our excessive reliance on punishment as a response to crime, the use of the criminal law to sustain racial hierarchies, and the ways the justice system has undermined our democracy and weakened communities,
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Replying to @chesaboudin
Chesa, thank you for trying to change things here in SF with evidence-based interventions and actions. People on here tend to make it seem like you don’t have our support, but you have mine and many others. These changes take time to undo damage caused by a decades old drug war.
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Replying to @seegztho @chesaboudin
I haven’t met anyone in person who supports Chesa, so I’m curious... Do you agree with choices like not prosecuting theft <$950 or not prosecuting the regular assault in the streets? I have a hard time grasping how. Feels like the “everything is fine” fire house meme walking here
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Replying to @_bnovc @chesaboudin
Prop 47 changed the amount of theft that can prosecuted in 2014. Dunno what that has to do with Chesa, but okay.
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Fair. I don’t know his stance on that explicitly, but he has made phrases along the lines of “bring me kilos not grams” or similar. That seems to be an endorsement for allowing small, frequent crimes.
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