A lot of ppl are asking abt policy solutions. Here are a few:
1. Ask your mayor & city council for strong Citizen Review Boards
2. Budgets. They’re powerful. Find your city’s police budget. Compare that to the school & housing budget. More $ in fmr
school-to-prison pipeline
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3. What does mental healthcare look like in your city? Too often our prisons are used to discard ppl struggling w mental health, housing. Invest in the latter. 4. Healthcare, living wage, housing & education guarantees. Without them we feed the cycle. What are your ideas?
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1. Vote for progressive prosecutors AND JUDGES. A progressive DA still only makes *suggestions* to the judge about bail, etc. If a judge doesn't understand that bail should only be applied for flight and violence risks, they may impose bail for petty crimes. 2. Support your 1/?
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local bail fund.
@phillybailfund has stats that 90%+ (can't remember exact) of people on bail show up for their court date. What's the point in making people pay bail then if that many show up for their trial? 3. Speaking of bail, we need harsh penalties for anyone who helps 2/?1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
keep someone in jail (aka before they are found guilty) as a plea bargain tool. 4. Fund public defenders as much as public prosecutors' offices are funded. Even if the SALARY budget matches, DA's offices often has more $ for investigations (on top of what police dect have 4/?
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done) and other expenses where the comparable public defenders' line item doesn't even exist. (From Plaff) 5. Again from Plaff - and this will sound counter intuitive but stay with me - DECREASE the size of your DA office or, if you keep it the same, move more of your 5/?
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line prosecutors to integrity units to reinvestigate crimes that got a conviction to double check that they were right and maybe even look into the more heinous cold cases. (First part from Plaff; second part from me.) 6. Give intergrity units and citizen review boards TEETH 6/?
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Personally, i like
@DARollins' approach. If i'm remembering correctly, any firearm discharge by a cop results in an external, not in the same building, review board for review to advise her. (If it doesn't already, any use of force should go to a similar board.) Rollins had 7/?1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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the strongest intergrity unit of any DA's office i interviewed or researched. 7. There's so much more! Detailed policies are important too.
@WesleyBell4STL stopped imprisoning parents who owe child support bc...how are you gonna be able to pay child support while you're 8/?1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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in prison? So much of our justice system doesn't make actual sense. These are some ideas. I wrote a progress report on some of these reforms (with a focus on DAs) for Toward Freedom: https://towardfreedom.org/story/progressive-prosecutors-police-accountability-and-decarceration/ … Look to John Plaff,
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@phillybailfund, @chesaboudin (hopefully he's like barely been in office), @DA_LarryKrasner (even though he never took my interview request), and other progressice prosecutors for this. There's a progressive prosecutor handbook out there that's worth a read as well. 10/x
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AH! Forgot to mention Rahsaan Hall of
@ACLU_Mass for challenging me, someone who believes so strongly in restorative justice, to think about core issues with our justice system in a different way. My favorite interview for my piece! 11/X0 replies 0 retweets 0 likesThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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