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31 Oct, 4 tweets, 3 min read
Steve! Author of unbelievably strange, unscientific, anthropological studies of homeless people. It’s really telling the only reply youre able to muster in response to reasoned critique of the circus you’re a part of is this silliness about being a couple hours away. Boring, bro.
Here is some gag-inducing, dystopian flavor from Steve’s special project called “Eyes on San Francisco.” Where he concludes people w/o homes should be given two choices: “The Good Place” (utopia that doesn’t exist where jobs & opportunity are aplenty) & “Bad Place” (prison). ImageImageImageImage
Steve!! Bro!! You did it again. Incredibly unimaginative. It’s just the same act over and over. I live in LA. Try engaging in the substance. It might make your brain feel better to actually ***think. And I don’t know — likely not but who knows — make you see differently?
“Confidence,” Steve says. Breathe it in, folks. Image

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2 Nov
THREAD: This story is important. Clarifies the failure of the criminal legal system. A man w/o a home. Trauma. Substance use. Mental health. 50+ arrests/convictions didn't "help" him. Right now: Caged over 800 days for stealing cold medicine. Faces 4 years.theappeal.org/rikers-nyquil-…
As a public defender, I met people like Reginald Randolph frequently. RAP sheet was literally heavy w/ crimes of desperation. To police, prosecutors & judges he was a "menace." To defenders: He long needed helped, but was failed time & again. "Homeless, sick, & trapped."
In San Francisco, NYC, & other cities, more & more people are expressing disgust over "shoplifters" & homelessness. Think it's a choice. The truth: "Shoplifting was to support my addiction & to deal with my homelessness, deal w/ my poverty." You can't deter desperation w/ cages.
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31 Oct
It’s incredible to me how many of those I’ve spoken to, who want to attack homelessness, substance use, & mental health with more cops, prosecutions, & cages, can also fully acknowledge that those responses will only hurt people more & make society less safe & healthy.
I think for some yes. They just want blunt force punishment. For others I think it’s just an inability to imagine a society that could actually solve problems without police, prosecutors, & prisons. Mass criminalization is a deeply engrained, American inertia.
It’s also I think impatience. Wanting things “fixed” & “cleaned up” right now. The problem w/ alternatives to policing for those who’re disgusted over how “their cities” look & feel, is that visible change won’t happen over night. Takes time to undo centuries of terrible policy.
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30 Oct
🚨Bill de Blasio--the worst NYC mayor in history, the gutless defender of Eric Garner's killer, the cruel cager of thousands on Rikers Island, the brazen liar that helped repeal modest bail reform, the supporter of NYPD's violent crackdown on protests--is running for Governor.
At some point I'll tie all my various threads on how awful Bill de Blasio is together. But for now, I still can't get over the fact while a humanitarian crisis was raging in Rikers & he had power to release people, he had the gall to show up at the Met Gala & smile.
Let’s not forget.
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30 Oct
READ THIS: “I didn’t want this man to die because I called the police. I also didn’t want him to die if I didn’t call the police. I just thought he needed medical attention.” On two 911 calls. 6 years apart. The perils of policing & promise of alternatives.motherjones.com/crime-justice/…
The profound reporting by @msjpauly is the story of two encounters between Oakland police & unconscious Black men. In one, the cops shoot & kill the man. In the other, they don’t. The difference is at least partly due to a new grassroots initiative, called Mental Health First.
Mental Health First fashions itself as an alternative to 911. After they heard about the incident this year (6 years after the killing of a 30 y/o father of three, volunteers sped to the scene & intervened, helping deescalate police & making sure the man came out alive.
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30 Oct
THREAD: In San Francisco now. Family here asking me about recall of Chesa Boudin. Point to a recent sensational article centered on a homicide prosecutor who quit. They've been skeptical. But to them, this article was a gamechanger. Problem: The article was based on lies. More:
The central story in the article about prosecutor Brooke Jenkins' exit from the office & now role in recalling Chesa Boudin is the Daniel Gudino case. Tragically killed his mother. Every expert-court appointed & otherwise-agreed he was legally insane. Jenkins wouldn't accept it.
Despite the insanity finding from all experts, prosecutor Brooke Jenkins' "spent $40,000 of taxpayer money to hire an expert never approved for court & whose report was at best laughable, just to find someone who would disagree w/ the weight of evidence.”davisvanguard.org/2021/10/guest-…
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29 Oct
"An [NYPD] sergeant dismissed a sexl assault claim bc she was sleeping, explaining 'he has sex w/ his wife while she’s asleep & she’s not reporting him for rape.'" On what police really think of survivors of crime & why they still get even higher budgets:
thegarrisonproject.org/purpose-of-pol…
"Policing has an amazing ability to fail up. One woman said that despite providing investigators with a “comprehensive 13-page document detailing the incident,” the detective didn’t interview witnesses and her case was closed twice without her knowledge." thegarrisonproject.org/purpose-of-pol…
"Murder rates go down; people exalt policing. Murder rates go up; people exalt policing. The defund movement advocates reducing and reallocating police funds; police budgets remain high. The backlash comes; police budgets get higher."thegarrisonproject.org/purpose-of-pol…
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