"We cannot forget that even when this state was at its highest levels of incarceration, tragedies still occurred. We cannot revert to thinking that the solution to any problem is more incarceration . . . when those policies do not make us safer."https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/Don-t-use-S-F-tragedy-to-justify-return-to-15869071.php …
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Reform is needed. But, there’s no doubt, incarceration makes us safer UNLESS / UNTIL effective alternative programs are in place. You cannot simply set criminals free, knowing the alternative programs are missing / broken, and pretend you’re not putting the public at risk.
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Replying to @jnperri @chesaboudin
Our epidemiologists tell us that incarcerating people in our mass incarceration system is of greater risk than allowing them to go free. And have specified that
@chesaboudin should release another 27%pic.twitter.com/qVakwpdW9W
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Of greater risk, and to whom, Paul? And of what kind of risks? Are we going to have epidemiologists run our justice system without regard to the actual presence of crime?
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Danger is to the public at large,
In pandemics yes we should listen to the guidance of our epidemiologists to make our society safer, but also our politicians who wrote the laws like our @HouseJudiciary .https://judiciary.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=2893 …
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