I am personally skeptical that it will work but given the massive amount of racism and the epic fail of our criminal justice system to do anything about this, am willing to give his ideas a shot.
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Replying to @the_watcher @3Sentinel4 and
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 @netfire4 and
Overall rates of “deaths of despair” (all overdoes, plus suicide) is still higher in the Upper Midwest and Appalachia though we are giving them a run for their money recently.
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Replying to @the_watcher @netfire4 and
Yes... But also SF is a wealthy city, not Detroit or a rural town in West Virginia
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All the greater tragedy that we can’t find a way to lure people away from drug abuse.
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Replying to @the_watcher @netfire4 and
Seems to me that SF lures people who are at risk into the lifestyle
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