On this 4th of July we acknowledge the gap between our nation’s ideals and the racism that pervades our criminal legal system. While we create new polices, expand language access, and end the death penalty in San Francisco, we continue to fight for our ideals.
Have you heard of Xinjiang camps? Those alone are larger than the entire US prison population. Blacks commit over half of all violent crimes, so what is the “correct” incarceration percentage?
It’s exactly your ideals that we need to fight against.
America is by far the greatest country in the world.
And this