as a Canadian, with 1/4 the incarceration rate of California, watching people melt down because burglaries are up while violent crimes (mild uptick in homicides) are down is deeply confusing
Anecdotally, I’m not seeing much opposition to CJ reform locally, maybe some knee jerk “is this progressive DA gonna be another @chesaboudin”. (Guilty of it myself). That’s why this occurred to me:https://twitter.com/maksim_ioffe/status/1352774570227322886 …
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Btw, in the US, various forms of criminal justice reform have bipartisan support. Even Trump supported and signed into law a significant overhaulhttps://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2018/12/18/18140973/state-of-the-union-trump-first-step-act-criminal-justice-reform …
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but that’s the thing public safety is *not* being undermined?
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