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23 Oct, 10 tweets, 4 min read
THREAD: "Vegan ex-cop who meditates." This is how NYT normalizes--even before becoming Mayor--a cop who ran a campaign based on fear. Wants to arrest & cage even more people, increase the sky-high $11 billion NYPD budget, & police as solution to all. More on the campaign he ran:
June 2021. Eric Adams fearmongered over “black & brown babies” being “shot,” & weaponized tragedies while NYC invests a historic $11 billion/yr on policing that clearly is failing to prevent anything. This statement might as well be from Donald Trump.
July 2021. Eric Adams peddled such brazen lies & fear about judges not caging even more than the 1000s of Black & Brown people they already do, *that the racist, Trump-supporting NYPD union* started retweeting his quotes. "We have surrendered our city."
June 2021. Over 1/2 of crime survivors don’t call police bc they’re scared of them & know punishment won’t heal trauma. Black & Brown communities care deeply about health & safety. Yet Eric Adams peddles a hyper-policing policy that'll prevent it for them.
June 2021. Rudy Giuliani endorsed Eric Adams for Mayor. Enough said.
June 2021. Eric Adams endorses an education policy that takes teachers out of equation. Surface-level: not criminal legal system related. But knowing how critical quality public education is for healthier communities, it shows you where his priorities lie.
Fearmongering by leaders to win political races leads to oppression, racism, poverty, police violence, surveillance, & mass human caging instead of health, education, housing, & safety. I’ll take more street art & less Eric Adams, please. "Lawlessness."
June 2021. Here’s future NYC Mayor Eric Adams dismantling a kids skateboarding ramp for a photo op. Note: He thought this made him look good. “Law & order.” That’s the perverse thinking of this man.
Most people don't read beyond headlines. So damage is already done w/ the NYT's push notification. Past the headline tho, despite being otherwise comprehensive, it fails to address *at all* his dangerous, cynical use of fearmongering to win at all costs detailed in this thread.
In fact, if you read the piece, the primary information you get about Eric Adams and policing is his *historical* *opposition* to the very pro-carceral policies he pushed *in the present* during his campaign. "His most enduring contribution." Read:

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25 Oct
THREAD: “Even as state/local reformers post major victories, national Democrats have almost entirely abandoned discussing criminal justice reform in public.”

Some thoughts on the irrational political cowardice of Dem leaders on justice & what you can do:thedailybeast.com/why-democrats-…
Criminal justice policy is largely a state & local issue. That's how our constitution works. A fancy legal term called "federalism." States are considered "laboratories of experiment.” Allows state & local progress to occur even with a President like Trump.
In an ideal world, local advocacy for criminal justice would & could proceed unhindered by either a national party/politicians being absent from the conversation or worst case, actively working against it.
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22 Oct
THREAD: I do not think that 20,000 NYPD will actually quit over vaccine mandates. I'd be surprised if any actually do. I hope they do, however. For a lot of reasons. This new article lays out several of them. I'll lead you through my thinking here. More:
qz.com/2076827/unvacc…
The fact that cops at NYPD, an agency tasked with "protecting & serving" is so willing to put people in harms way is not just telling, it's also *entirely consistent* with an agency that exacts state violence on a mass scale every day against mostly Black and Brown people.
The fact that an agency tasked w/ "protecting & serving" is so willing to put people in harms way, is *entirely consistent* w/ an agency Human Rights Watch found *planned* a mass assault on hundreds of protestors in the Bronx then praised their restraint.
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21 Oct
THREAD: Important reporting on the state of crime reporting. Here, Mother Jones carefully assesses FBI Data weaponized by police & amplified by media to scare & misinform public. Speaks w/ non-police experts, & debunks the myths. "Don't believe them." motherjones.com/crime-justice/…
A carefully worded first paragraph in this reporting. "Homicides across the United States rose by an estimated 30 percent in 2020, the largest one-year increase on record, according to recently released data from the FBI. But don’t jump to conclusions about what that means."
"As soon as the FBI shared this statistic, a flood of fear-inducing headlines made it seem like Americans are now living through a massive wave of violence. Police & journalists quickly speculated about causes blaming (w/o evidence) protests to stop police brutality."
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20 Oct
2 years ago, Governor Cuomo hired *500 more cops* to exact violence & mayhem on the subways. The most recent example: last night maskless NYPD cops pushing a man our of the subway after asking them to wear masks. One of so many examples. More:
Gut wrenching. NYPD in subway surround woman selling churros. She’s crying. They’re telling her she stops or get arrested. Trying to talk to them in Spanish. Rolling their eyes at her. Lead out of station in cuffs. Cart taken away. This is police violence.
From April 2019: After NY Post called the head of Legal Aid Society “insane” for suggesting a moratorium on unnecessary police contact & low level arrests. Yesterday, a group of cops surround & grab a sobbing child for selling candy on the subway.
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20 Oct
Furious. The NYPD Commissioner lies brazenly *for the purpose of* influencing law & policy. Law & policy gets changed bc of those lies. 1000s more get caged. Gets caught in lies. Keeps lying. Oh, & plans a mass assault on hundreds of protestors. Still keeps job. Fire Dermot Shea. Image
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Receipts: NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea planned an assault on civilians.
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20 Oct
THREAD: Another death on Rikers. Violence. Self harm. Denied food. Medicine. Beds. Know this: This isn’t bc of a “shortage” of officers. This is bc police--enabled by media--lied about bail reform & alternatives to mass caging. Happening across the country.nytimes.com/2021/10/18/nyr…
The horrors you are seeing on Rikers are the result of a coordinated campaign of fearmongering. Copes weaponized a handful of tragedies printed by a complicit media, to convince the public that commonsense bail reform was dangerous when opposite was true.fwd.us/news/new-repor…
History: In April 2019, NY passed widely popular bail reform. No jail for most misdemeanors, non-violent felonies & a few “violent” offenses that included no physical harm. It worked. Thousands who otherwise would’ve been caged were w/ families. Kept jobs & housing.
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