Our own laws confiscating property where users gather and drug use and sales take place has uniquely created the outdoor open air drug markets we have in San Francisco, but our brutal violent police state certainly doesn't help, we would like drugs users off the street, let them.
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No, what has created the open air markets, are that police have been told to stand down and not make arrests for brazenly breaking the law in broad daylight. Get users into treatment centers, dealers off the streets. Simple.
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Criminalizing more people isn't going to prevent crime. Society has to improve the social conditions that produce poverty. That is the basis for most criminal behavior. There are legislative solutions for that, but as I said before, it's beyond the scope of what a DA can do.
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And you made the key point there at the end. The DA should prosecute those that break the law. Circumstances dictate sentencing by the judge or jury. The SF DA has abdicated his responsibility and cares more for criminals than for victims. Get him out immediately.
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Any process towards victim's restitution absolutely involves their word. The key point I made is that prison is still on the table, but it should be treated as a measure of last resort when measures to increase perpetrator accountability as exhausted
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Especially when in this moment of pandemic our overcrowded mass incarceration system poses such a systematic epidemiological existential risk. Now especially prison must be our last resort!
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So let crime thrive? Great plan. Our DA is not fit for the position.
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Is it your opinion that Boudin is responsible for the increased crime this year? Do you have evidence to support that?
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In any other city the crimes I witness would be prosecuted. He is not responsible for all of the increase. Clearly the situation would be better if he prosecuted more. This is especially true for persons repeatedly arrested for the same crime.
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Paul Retweeted Chesa Boudin 博徹思
Fact, Drug sales are still being prosecuted in our city. Neither of us like the lawlessness that is a result of decades of failed drug policy, but the sensible path isn't more failed drug war or increased enforcement!https://twitter.com/chesaboudin/status/1287612680946069504 …
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You are right about the stats and the need to rethink. But the early warning signs of “do nothing” are in and demand, for the sake of a movement, a pivot. If I can ever understand the initial ideals we were shooting for, i will spitball.
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