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1 Dec, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Pay close attention to the statement by the "progressive" Brooklyn DA: he praises a high-level prosecutor in his office after courts found the prosecutor committed egregious misconduct (which would be a federal felony) to falsely convict Julio Negron. nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-c…
After learning what courts found this prosecutor did, local and federal officials could have prosecuted him, could have fired him, or could have just made a public comment condemning his crimes. Instead, they chose to praise him, and he keeps is promotion.
Put this systemic corruption and indifference to corruption in context: our federal lawsuit @CivRightsCorps alleges that officials are currently threatening prominent law professors for the mere act of publicizing their grievances against prosecutors. nytimes.com/2021/11/10/nyr…
One of the things to understand about prosecutor misconduct is that it is pervasive and systemic. There is an entire bureaucracy dedicated to concealing and whitewashing it. And it largely affects the poorest people in our society.

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3 Dec
Thread. The New York Times has published another irresponsible, dangerous article contributing to a manufactured panic about "retail theft." A few points you should know. nytimes.com/2021/12/03/bus…
First, look at the "expert" sources the reporters choose to rely on in this story. It's unbelievable, even for a paper that routinely skews toward corporate and police sources. Here are the expert sources the NYT cites, supposedly to help people understand the issue, in order:
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2 Dec
This is an entire “news” article merely allowing San Jose police to repeat false talking points about “bail reform” in ways that are contrary to the scientific evidence about public health and safety and contrary to centuries of law. abc7news.com/san-jose-stree…
It could be news that the mayor and police chief of a major US city are caught misleading the public for political benefit, but instead this local reporter acts as their stenographer. Shameful.
Here is a thread with actual information in it about the issue:
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29 Nov
This is a thread about cash bail. A number of prosecutors, police, and media pundits are blaming "bail reform" for specific crimes, like the recent tragedy in Wisconsin. Here's the truth about cash bail.
First, have you ever seen a bail hearing? Watch this video to see what we're talking about. Does this barbaric assembly line bureaucracy look like safety to you?
Second, only the U.S. and the Philippines allow for-profit cash bail. The rest of the world thinks it is grotesque and irrational to allow private corporations to profit by determining who is caged and who is free with their families based on how much cash they have.
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27 Nov
THREAD: Yesterday, the New York Times published a headline it knew was false. The implications of this are dangerous for everyone who cares about an informed public. Here’s what happened:
The NYT wrote another pro-police propaganda piece that had all of the usual problems I’ve discussed before (more on that below). But the editors chose to add a headline that stated that “murders ‘doubled overnight’” in the Bronx, New York. Here’s where it gets devious. Image
Notice that NYT editors chose to put the “doubled overnight” in quotes. Why? It's a signal they aren’t reporting it as a verified fact, but as a quote from a source. In the article body, we learn they are quoting a former cop turned local professor. Here it gets more devious.
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26 Nov
This is a thread about how journalists decide what is “news” and what isn’t. Anyone shaping the news and anyone consuming the news should understand who decides what counts as news, how they decide it, and what determines what they say about it. Here, I ask a few questions:
This thread is inspired by the gap in what mainstream media treats as urgent and what are the greatest threats to human safety, well-being, and survival.
For example, air pollution kills *10 million people* each year and causes untold additional illness and suffering. It rarely features in daily news stories. Why?
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24 Nov
This journalist is so conditioned to mindlessly quote prosecutors that he misses a huge story (the decades-long divestment from healthcare and investment in useless jails/prisons) to blame a preventable death on not requiring slightly more cash bail from a mentally ill man.
The person tweeting this hasn’t thought deeply about cash bail (which all available evidence shows *increases crime*) or about the empirical literature on the effectiveness of short stints in jail at preventing future crime.
Cash bail separates millions of poor families every year and hurts public safety. Journalists like this do a massive disservice when they parrot DA talking points without looking into any of the actual evidence or without putting the bigger picture in perspective.
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