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.
As the home of historic mass incarceration, imprisoning both the greatest number and the greatest percentage of our population in the history of man. We have absolutely not tried anything resembling decriminalization.
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In China or Saudi Arabia, you could be arrested simply for exercising your right to free speech. And then you might disappear, in which case you would not be counted as a prisoner anymore. So to imply that our justice system is the most unfair in the world is quite simply naive.
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I dont see your point isn't that true here too? Or am I allowed to go and stand in GG park on monday? https://reason.com/2020/04/17/a-teenager-posted-about-her-covid-19-infection-on-instagram-a-deputy-threatened-to-arrest-her-if-she-didnt-delete-it/ …
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