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26 Oct, 5 tweets, 2 min read
Great team. I'll be listening!
Downplaying the increase in homicides makes it seem like “reform is a luxury.” That’s a mistake, says @JohnFPfaff. Really insightful point that turns the issue’s framing on its head.
Yes, crime in general is down. But violent crime drives the political discussion, and murder especially, says @JohnFPfaff.
“Almost no police budgets got cut” in 2020, and even those cuts were often ephemeral. Important to separate narrative from reality on “defund.”
Has been very cool to see @JoshuaBHoe’s star rise over the years. Exceptionally talented and determined person who deserves all the success he’s had and more. And great interviewer!!

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27 Oct
Barbarian invasions didn't singlehandedly topple the Roman Empire, nor did (per Gibbon and other scolds) some too-narratively-convenient collapse of republican virtue. Instead, the fall of Rome was at least in part a supply chain failure.

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Starting in the mid-second century B.C.E., the Roman state provided free or subsidized grain to some subset of the population. Egypt began to supply most of that grain starting in the reign of Augustus. Image
Fast forward to roughly 400 C.E. and, while Egypt now supplies Constantinople, the Western Roman Empire still depends on grain from North Africa. Around midcentury, though, Gothic armies capture North Africa. Regular traffic of grain ships across the Mediterranean *to Rome* ends. Image
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26 Oct
This is a big deal. Thank you @RSI for getting into the fight for bipartisan sentencing reform. Work your magic, @senatorshoshana.
@RSI @senatorshoshana Allow me to expand. This is a big deal because it's another policy heavyweight, with significant credibility on the Hill, coming out in favor of a sentencing reform package that's flying under the radar of most reporters, but will do a lot of good once enacted.
@RSI @senatorshoshana But @RSI is *also* endorsing the Equal Act, as a matter of public safety and common sense. That bill would finally #endthedisparity in crack and powder cocaine punishment, but faces an uncertain future in the Senate despite a resounding 6-1 vote in the House.
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28 Jul
This @ZaidJilani piece on policing waits until the very end to note that, for many, the policing-heavy status quo wasn’t working. That’s the core of the progressive argument for reimagining public safety — which he then faults progressives for not making. theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
Worth noting that the piece’s inflammatory framing — “progressive denial” of rising crime — isn’t even borne out by Jilani’s examples. @AOC and @JohnFPfaff are warning against a reactionary backslide into mass incarceration, NOT denying the need for a policy response to crime.
In Jilani’s defense, there ARE some progressives who treat rising crime as an (ahem) “inconvenient truth” rather than an urgent problem calling for creative solutions. But they are (thankfully) increasingly confined to the margins and shut out of serious policy debates.
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