Until we find that third way our responsibility should be towards the innocent victims & not criminals. If they're likely 2 commit crimes when out & harm even ONE citizen, their release isn't palatable. So until the opposers of mass incarc.find that third way, the first way stays
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Replying to @facts16966471 @dbworku and
It depends on the type of crime. Prison is super expensive. For violent and serious, absolutely! For non-violent/non-serious, different options short of incarceration would be better.
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Replying to @GehaniNeil @dbworku and
It isn't black & white. What if you were the same person at 16 that held up a store with a gun, released because you were under 18. Now at 19, you're caught again with a gun selling meth. Named as the POI in several violent crimes but not enough to prove. What would you do?
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Replying to @facts16966471 @dbworku and
I would first look to solve why a 16 yr old has a gun?. Lets start there. 2nd why did a 16 year old had the need to hold up a store? If we intervened here, as a society, we likely will not have a 19 year old "with a gun selling meth"
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Replying to @GehaniNeil @facts16966471 and
We as a society don't want to ask the hard questions and actually solve the underlying problem. We are too quick to pass the buck. Let's look in the mirror and ask ourselves what could we as voters have done differently so a 16 year old doesn't have a gun and/or hold up a store
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Replying to @GehaniNeil @dbworku and
There's no passing the buck. They were caught with meth(with violence in the past in this made up narrative)which is why there's a higher bail. Their lives are THEIR responsibility, not society's. If they are actively CHOOSING to sell meth then they pay for it.
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Replying to @facts16966471 @dbworku and
I don't think its that simple. Yes, their "lives" are their responsibility but that assumes they have "lives" worth living. Good societies make sure that every citizen has the economic opportunity to have a life worth living on a level playing field with a safety net.
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Replying to @GehaniNeil @facts16966471 and
I think it was Richard Florida (I don't with most things) but he did mention the "Airbags that inflate" concept if you are on the right side of the tracks but don't if you are happen to be born on the wrong side of the tracks.
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Replying to @GehaniNeil @dbworku and
That concept doesn't apply here. There are millions of actual lives that contradict that belief. Choices maketh the man(person), not the other way around.
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Replying to @facts16966471 @dbworku and
Just because lives contradict that doesn't mean it doesn't apply. There are exceptions. Just because there are rich black successful people doesn't mean that racism doesn't exist to deny them success. *available* choices maketh the person and the skill to choose wisely :-)
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There are rich successful black and Asian and Hispanic people. The way to sort out if something exists in a vacuum is to introduce a new variable. So to see if racism exists, introduce Asians and poof, its gone. They're more successful than caucasians.
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