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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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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"Pew poll found that roughly two-thirds of respondents believe that people should no longer be prosecuted for possession of drugs like cocaine or heroin.22" https://www.unodc.org/documents/ungass2016/Contributions/Civil/DrugPolicyAlliance/DPA_Fact_Sheet_Approaches_to_Decriminalization_Feb2015_1.pdf …
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The problem is we're not doing any of that. We're arresting and releasing drug offenders and sellers into diversion programs that don't exist. Which does nothing for them, it endangers innocent people, and kills drug abusers. The decriminalization of drug abuse hasn't worked here
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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 find your claim that the US defends freedom of speech frankly ridiculous and obviously naive.pic.twitter.com/2MFtv2TZac
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