Then I encourage him to have a career in legislation. As it stands now, the results have been horrendous. Any ideology needs to be calibrated by reality, and he doesn't even seem interested in that. Grand sweeping statements, tweets about broad issues, supporting Venezuela?
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Replying to @virtualvirtues @3Sentinel4 and
The only actual results we have are positive: Homicides and violent crime overall has gone up less in SF than the other comparably sized cities in the US. Your ideology is blinding you to this fact.
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Replying to @the_watcher @virtualvirtues and
Not sure these are the only results. We have burglaries, auto theft and fentanyl deaths to look at also. And controlling for other factors, that smaller increase in homicides may not be too impressive
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Replying to @3Sentinel4 @virtualvirtues and
Sure. I personally don’t care that much about drug overdoses though I suppose it says something rotten about our society. Burglaries in particular reduce peoples sense of living in a safe and sane world.
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Replying to @the_watcher @virtualvirtues and
Hmm I think we should care about drug overdoses. No?
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Replying to @3Sentinel4 @the_watcher and
Paul Retweeted John Hamasaki
Then we should evaluate which solution reduces them, even in high security incarceration, prohibition doesn't work. To reduce the overdoses,
#EndTheWarOnDrugshttps://mobile.twitter.com/HamasakiLaw/status/1402336179702226947 …Paul added,
John Hamasaki @HamasakiLawOne other point this illustrates is the futility of the supply-side focus of the Drug War. If police can't keep drugs out of heavily, heavily secured facilities, what makes you think that after 50 years of trying, billions in policing, it will work now? https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-06-07/opioid-overdoses-sheriff-narcan-jails …1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @netfire4 @the_watcher and
Yes we should. And for starters SF has a higher fentanyl death rate than east and Midwest cities
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Replying to @3Sentinel4 @the_watcher and
Our failed and counter-producctive system of prohibition is driving overdoses partially because its prohibiition of safer less potent substances drives opiate users to more potent fentanyl.
#EndTheWarOnDrugs to eliminate overdoses.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_law_of_prohibition …1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
Replying to @netfire4 @the_watcher and
You want to simultaneously claim crime is down and that our policies have failedpic.twitter.com/qAuqsJUXUl
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Replying to @3Sentinel4 @the_watcher and
Paul Retweeted Prison Policy Init.
Other than general racism, and that seeing poor people makes you really really really uncomfortable, there can be no possible justification for why we need to incarcerate an order of magnitude more people than our European peers.
#EndMassIncarcerationhttps://mobile.twitter.com/PrisonPolicy/status/1435634041353486346 …Paul added,
Prison Policy Init.Verified account @PrisonPolicyNEW: Here is the 2021 update to our “States of Incarceration” report, comparing incarceration rates in U.S. states to 169 countries around the world: https://www.prisonpolicy.org/global/2021.html … 24 states, when viewed as countries, have the highest incarceration rate *in the world.* pic.twitter.com/tXBlyeOqpF2 replies 1 retweet 2 likes
Paul is not me, and while we agree on the need to end Drug Prohibition, we disagree on some other things.
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Replying to @the_watcher @netfire4 and
We hardly have some extreme drug prohibition going on these days. But even the most drug friendly countries do no allow open air drug markets and use
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