clean, safe, vibrant, fair, opportunity-driven: these are the primary qualities of a healthy community. which emerging/existing politicians promote/work toward them? I’ll be creating my first ever voter “guide” soon! mix of local, state, national. who do you like or loathe?
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@chesaboudin, to me he means a change in our approaches to addictions in which our war on drugs has been failing for decades.8 replies 0 retweets 3 likes -
But I'm not sure the DAs job is to be working on "addictions" His job is law enforcement Not social services
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I guess to that I might then ask what is the purpose of the da? Seems to me his job is to pick the solutions that are most effective and least costly to our society. When each of us is illegal the da's job becomes one the requires a lot of discretion.
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“Least costly to society”, how do you figure?
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The complex trade-off desiring to maximize lawfulness is complex, too much brutal oppressive behavior on the part of the cop people are in the streets, too little attention and the crime frightens the law abiding away.
Incarceration is horrible, and @chesaboudin uses is frugally.
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