Healthcare professionals demanded we drastically reduce the jail population, so we listened. On Jan 21, the SF jail population was 1,238. On March 4, when the emergency was declared, it was 1,097. Yesterday, it was 766. Meanwhile, crime rates continue to decrease in SF.
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Replying to @chesaboudin
While the sentiment is very much appreciated, isn't this more correlation than causation? Crime rates decreasing everywhere due to reduced activity.
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@jeremyfancher , Lots of sociological papers have been done on this causal relationship one such below. " If drug prohibition generates violence, then attempts to enforce prohibition not only fail to reduce violence but actually increase it." https://law.asu.edu/sites/default/files/pdf/academy_for_justice/6_Reforming-Criminal-Justice_Vol_1_Drug-Prohibition-and-Violence.pdf …1 reply 0 retweets 5 likes -
I might agree with you to a point. Legalization of marijuana, and certain types of psychoactive mushrooms could decrease violence. Other drugs like meth not so much. Any decrease in violence would be offset by the increase in harm it would cause people. No two drugs are alike.
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"I now explain why using force against people who wish to use intoxicants inevitably harms them, harms the general public, and harms the legal system. " https://scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1837&context=facpub …
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