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
Thanks for being brave and doing the right thing. We have the largest prison population in the world by a huge margin and destroyed more lives than it's helped. We can do our part to address the conditions that lead to crime or we can fill our prisons even more like we've been.
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Replying to @legendofcheese @chesaboudin
Don't forget about letting current criminals off with no accountability.
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Replying to @WillyNaakt @chesaboudin
I see we're still using "criminals" as code for black people. Not much has changed since FDRs day. Well, the prison population has exploded, that's helped, right?
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It did, actually. Until we started to reverse the trend.
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Study from the US DOJ says the exact opposite.https://nicic.gov/what-caused-crime-decline …
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First of all that’s not from the DOJ, it’s just linked to there and actually from the very left lib Brennan Center for Justice. Second, there is actually a litany of evidence that locking up criminals did the bulk of the work, but it’s well summed up in this simple graphpic.twitter.com/c15igBNuQ9
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Can't even read that, but: "A 2015 Brennan Center for Justice report found that increased incarceration was responsible for about 5% of the crime drop in the United States during the 1990s, and for essentially none of the crime drop there since 2000"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_drop
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Commentators and academics who question the role of incarceration in the crime drop have noted that Canada's crime rates followed similar trends as those in the United States during the 1990s; in contrast, Canada's incarceration rate did not change significantly during this
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time, while that of the United States increased significantly.[44] In 2009, Steven Messner and Richard Rosenfeld found that incarceration was negatively related to burglary rates "...only after unusual policy interventions, such as Italy's 2006 clemency measure that
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dramatically reduced the size of its prison population."
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