The blame for this isn't on the "failed war on drugs". This is an individual who has repeatedly committed crimes that have resulted in zero repercussions. He wasn't moved from society to as punishment or for rehabilitation - and now 2 women are dead. We deserve better than this.
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Replying to @SF_Shoobie @netfire4 and
Like you said, legalization "might" have kept those women alive. I can think of a couple solutions that would 100% work. No cars would have been stolen, No armed robberies, No dead ladies. 1) Bullet to the head, or 2) Leave forever & If you come back, we go with option one.
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Replying to @MikeWaxonWaxoff @SF_Shoobie and
Legalization still doesn’t mean the drugs would be free; people will still commit crimes to get money, such as stealing cars, and then evading police.
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Replying to @ChristyWhite101 @SF_Shoobie and
Yes and drug dealers, wouldn't suddenly become dentists. Criminals commit crime. They will simply move on to another criminal activity. Ex. Horse thieves became car thieves. Then we'd have to waste more money on more legal drug addiction support, as more became hooked.
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Replying to @MikeWaxonWaxoff @SF_Shoobie and
And our leaders would be wanting to figure out ways to include a person’s drug of choice in their welfare benefits. “Here are your food stamps and oxy”.
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Replying to @ChristyWhite101 @MikeWaxonWaxoff and
Given the almost non-existent production cost, it's by far the cheapest way the government could supply entertainment. But I hope instead for responsible private purveyors selling substances much less toxic than alcohol.
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Replying to @netfire4 @ChristyWhite101 and
Paul, ask Chesa how much you would need per month to live a "middle class" life in Venezuela. How does that compare to the annual cost of incarceration in California? I think we should start with lifers. Outsource life imprisonment to cheap places, then evaluate expansion.
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Replying to @MikeWaxonWaxoff @netfire4 and
If a lifer chooses to leave, they get a single "danish style" modern cell double the size. Annual audits by ACLU or whatever to ensure prisoners are treated well. Once the pipeline set, we allow citizen transfers w/sentence reductions. Criminal purge. Reimagine Penal colonies.
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Replying to @MikeWaxonWaxoff @ChristyWhite101 and
You are not the first to want to ship all the colored people away, but I am not convinced that you have any coherent reason for calling them criminals. Mostly what we criminalize is poverty.pic.twitter.com/0yG4TkBRlW
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Replying to @netfire4 @ChristyWhite101 and
Where did "color" come into play? That's a bit of a straw man. Whereever criminals come from (wealth, upper middle class, poor) they tend to, through their OWN mistakes, end up in poor areas. I want to remove every single criminal from infecting poor areas. 'Not my culture'?
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The problem is that societies definition of criminal is so broad as to be inclusive of everyone.
But we over-police the black and brown neighborhoods.
#DefundThePolice because #BlackLivesMatter
and they keep killing them.pic.twitter.com/dtf7TE8SbO
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