Requiring restitution to the victim is implemented successfully in many countries. If an offender can't pay, they could "do their time" by performing unpaid labor or community service
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While they continue to commit crimes in the meantime.
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Replying to @msutyak @awokeocracy and
This level of minor crime is cheaper than the mass incarceration cure we are attempting. We should choose a different more humane path, it's more effective at addressing violent crime.
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So, we just allow that to run rampant, like the current DA in SF wants to? That's ridiculous. Gangs, dealers and others have made large parts of the city uninhabitable or un-walkable. People don't feel safe on the streets. This is 100% directly due to lax policy and enablement
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Gangs and dealers are best financially rewarded by our continued brutal, violent and oppressive police state, ensuring a continued lucrative and profitable market.pic.twitter.com/Cnt6wRhh97
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Replying to @netfire4 @awokeocracy and
I hear you there - I would much prefer legalization and taxation. But in the meantime, we could prevent them from congregating on the streets, leaving needles and mayhem in their wake. New York accomplished this in the 90s. This can be accomplished again - with proper policy.
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Replying to @msutyak @awokeocracy and
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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Replying to @netfire4 @awokeocracy and
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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