As our country comes to terms with the damage caused by our excessive reliance on punishment as a response to crime, the use of the criminal law to sustain racial hierarchies, and the ways the justice system has undermined our democracy and weakened communities,
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Replying to @chesaboudin
What of the daily damage caused by the crowds of street dealers In the city?
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Paul Retweeted Julian Buchanan PhD
The condition of our streets is caused by the drug war and our system of prohibition.
#EndTheWarOnDeugs to make our streets and city safer.https://twitter.com/julianbuchanan/status/968429520788140032?s=20 …Paul added,
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And prosecute them all until the war is over and the government monopoly has been established.
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Paul Retweeted Alec Karakatsanis
There is no evidence whatsoever that the government is capable of enforcing it's monopoly through violence.https://twitter.com/equalityAlec/status/1403101994324201476?s=20 …
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Alec KarakatsanisVerified account @equalityAlec*Update* Eleventh, I just needed to add: there is no evidence that police/prosecutors/prisons reduce "crime," especially that they reduce crime relative to other alternatives. Think about the disastrous waste of the "War on Drugs": https://twitter.com/equalityAlec/status/1380200486129795082 …Show this thread1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @netfire4 @chesaboudin
They wouldn’t need violence. All they would need is to make the price of the products so low that it would no longer make economic sense to sell it in the black market. No profit = No black market
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If you did it that way there's no reason to prosecute them, in the intermediate term, not arresting them is also safer than arresting them.
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Incorrect. In the near term arrest them, then do the same for the intermediate and long term. You have to make it an undesirable business venture in every way. All risk. No reward.
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Paul Retweeted John Hamasaki
Our police state and mass incarceration system are ineffective tools to address other peoples drug usage you have a moral objection to. 40 years of unhinged incarceration attempting to have shown us it's counterproductive, and a generally impossible goal.https://twitter.com/HamasakiLaw/status/1402336179702226947?s=20 …
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