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5 Apr, 4 tweets, 2 min read
This piece by @ryanlcooper @TheWeek is easily the best piece I’ve read on the relationship between progressive prosecutors, policing and the pandemic-year’s violent crime spike. theweek.com/articles/97515…
As the article points out, reactionary forces blame progressive DAs like Larry Krasner for a nation-wide spike in shootings. But that’s preposterous. Krasner prosecutes more than 98% of shootings. The problem is police – who solve fewer than 20% of them. theweek.com/articles/97515…
This article smartly rejects the typical ruse that almost all crime journalists fall for: police unions blame “reform” for every spike in serious crime to distract from the fact that police are so bad at what they do that they rarely solve serious crime. theweek.com/articles/97515…
I wish I could ask the typical reporter: how is it that progressive prosecutors – who send shooters/murderers away for decades – are the cause of violence but not police who ensure that the majority of shooters/murderers never serve a day in jail (b/c they never solve the case).

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1 Apr
1. Yesterday I watched a pretty remarkable hearing in New Orleans where thirteen men convicted by nonunanimous juries, some decades ago, were resentenced, mostly to time served. If I were a criminal law professor, I would assign it to students. nola.com/news/courts/ar…
2. It was unlike anything I had ever seen in a courtroom. In most courtrooms, one rarely sees people, defendants or otherwise, take responsibility for the harm that they caused. Our system rarely incentivizes that. But this was different.
3. All of the men were convicted by nonunanimous juries – juries that the Supreme Court has said were “racist” and violate the 6th Amendment. But that didn’t mean they were legally entitled to be retried. Law in this area is complex and “finality” is often preferred over justice.
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30 Mar
1. There’s a common incredibly lazy critique of Larry Krasner among those infected with the “tough on crime” fever that basically boils down to “Krasner is a reformer therefore he is responsible for an increase in shootings in Philly.” It’s just so obviously false.
2. Setting aside the fact that shootings have been on the rise in other cities – which should complicate that narrative – let’s take a look at shootings in Philly. The data is quite striking.
3. Here are fatal shootings. Krasner became DA in January 2018. Note that he has prosecuted more than 99% of the fatal shootings that have ended in an arrest. BUT ALSO NOTE, PHILLY POLICE MAKE AN ARREST IN FEWER THAN 40% OF FATAL SHOOTINGS. Image
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28 Mar
1. This article – like so much of Matt’s writing – includes an abject falsehood, A TOTAL LIE, based on his stick- figure understanding of American criminal justice policy.
2. The piece falsely says, “Indeed, one of the big ideas touted by progressive prosecutors such as Philadelphia’s Larry Krasner is to stop prosecuting gun possession cases altogether.” Completely false. Easily and verifiably false.
3. It’s true that Larry Krasner has expanded a preexisting policy that allows for the diversion to a probation-like supervision program of some first-time offenders who purchased their guns legally.
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6 Mar
Do I understand this correctly? A pro-police PAC leaked a police report falsely stating our only Black city councilwoman engaged in a hit-&-run. @Oregonian ran an article propagating the lie, then “corrected” the article in a way that erased the fact they propagated the lie?
Trying to think “what’s the most innocent possible version of this whole mess,” @maxoregonian @oregonian? I guess its (1) all black women look alike and (2) journalism is little more than retyping police reports (3) even when illegally(?) leaked by right-wing groups? AND...
...(4) reporters don’t owe anything to their readers in terms of coming clean when they make serious mistakes – just erase the false stuff you put out there and cover over the fact that you did it?
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5 Mar
3. HOLY SHIT. The prosecutor implicated in the rampant, egregious misconduct in this case is Queens DA @MelindaKatz’s CURRENT HOMICIDE BUREAU CHIEF!! nytimes.com/2021/03/05/nyr…
4. One further point that the court makes in overturning the convictions. It’s not just that the Queens prosecutors illegally withheld evidence. It’s worse than that: they were asked specifically whether they had certain information and they falsely asserted they didn’t have any.
5. I mean how on earth does @MelindaKatz not fire the prosecutor who did this? They were specifically, repeatedly asked whether they had exactly this information and they falsely denied having it – and made it seem to the judge that the defense was going on a fishing expedition.
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25 Feb
Maybe I’m missing something, but this claim by the head of the Oregon DA Assoc. seems false. I just did a quick check of a handful of states: NY, NJ, CA all had bigger violent crime rate drops between 1994 & 2019 (last year for which we have data). malheurenterprise.com/posts/8165
Dear @MalheurNews. I think you may have printed a flat out falsehood in your newspaper. (See above.) You may need to issue a correction. I might add: DAs tend to act this way. They lie and create fear to prevent reform. You might take note and fact-check them in the future.
This also seems false. Using FBI UCR data for 1994 and 2019 (the last year for which I have data), Oregon’s violent crime rate fell less than 50% not more than 50%. malheurenterprise.com/posts/8165
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