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.
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Only if you take the suggestion to be that releasing ppl is causing the drop. But I don’t—I read it as rebutting the claim that releasing inmates right now would increase crime. That crime continues to drop is solid (though not conclusive) evidence for that rebuttal.
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@jeremyfancher , Lots of sociological papers have been done on this causal relationship one such below. " If drug prohibition generates violence, then attempts to enforce prohibition not only fail to reduce violence but actually increase it." https://law.asu.edu/sites/default/files/pdf/academy_for_justice/6_Reforming-Criminal-Justice_Vol_1_Drug-Prohibition-and-Violence.pdf … -
I might agree with you to a point. Legalization of marijuana, and certain types of psychoactive mushrooms could decrease violence. Other drugs like meth not so much. Any decrease in violence would be offset by the increase in harm it would cause people. No two drugs are alike.
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Actually, crime is up in San Francisco. Both property and violent crimes. Robberies are up 15% under Boudin's first 3-months. Car boostings are down, but replaced by a 10% increase in thefts stealing the whole car!!! https://www.sanfranciscopolice.org/sites/default/files/2020-04/MarchCompstat20200417.pdf …
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