1/x What I mean here is that every day there's another of the same repetitive story. To name a few: - Dealer arrested 4th time on same block with money, drugs, and weapons. - Dealer ignores stay away order. - Man arrested for the 15th time in 18 months for motor vehicle theft.
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Replying to @SF_Shoobie @netfire4 and
2/x Real criminals (not drug users) become more bold when they know for a fact that they face no consequences (Clearly demonstrated in the latter headline - I'm sorry 15 stolen vehicles in 18 months, we can't trust you to participate in our society and respect your neighbors).
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Replying to @SF_Shoobie @netfire4 and
3/x You're right about incarceration being prohibitively expensive and overused as a solution. But we live by a social contract to respect property and treat neighbors with consideration. There are rules and there has to be consequences enough to deter breaking them.
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Replying to @SF_Shoobie @michelletandler and
"prison sentences (particularly long sentences) are unlikely to deter future crime. Prisons actually may have the opposite effect: Inmates learn more effective crime strategies from each other,"https://nij.ojp.gov/topics/articles/five-things-about-deterrence …
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Replying to @netfire4 @michelletandler and
My argument is not that prison is the best solution nor an effective one. I'm arguing it's better than our 2020 COVID-safe approach: "we will yell about masks and impose quarantines but will ignore everything else, including vehicle theft, car break-ins and stayaway orders"
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Replying to @SF_Shoobie @michelletandler and
Well you are complaining about one of the most effective responses, as the epidemiological epicenter of this crisis, our
@SF_DPH had previously tasked@chesaboudin with reducing incarceration by 300 non-violent people, of which you seem to complain about? https://sfdistrictattorney.org/policy/justice-driven-data/an-epidemic-inside-a-pandemic/ …pic.twitter.com/sHtvne6mvw
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Replying to @netfire4 @michelletandler and
I'm not complaining about the risk of COVID in our jails. I'm complaining about the excusing of what I'd call "heavy crime" simply because a proven and undeterred criminal may be exposed to COVID in jail. I have no empathy for those who can't treat their community with respect.
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Replying to @SF_Shoobie @netfire4 and
On that note - you're advocating for change here. I'm interested in hearing your ideas: how would you handle this specific individual if not jail? I'm all for helping those who demonstrate a desire to change, grow, and work hard to improve both themselves & their situations.
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Replying to @SF_Shoobie @michelletandler and
I advocate we follow the guidance of our health professionals in our
@SF_DPH and immediately release another 235/835 of our cities mass incarcerated population or face further existential risk from congregate living circumstances. https://sfdistrictattorney.org/policy/justice-driven-data/an-epidemic-inside-a-pandemic/ …pic.twitter.com/rnNAxIPA0v
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Replying to @netfire4 @michelletandler and
I remain hesitant although open to this idea if those selected for release are not (1) violent or (2) repeat offenders who have demonstrated they need to be removed from the community.
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Absent violence, there can be no moral justification for existentially risking society. Not about the lives of the criminal mass incarceration poses a epidemiological risk of loss of life to the whole, especially acute in moment of pandemic.
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