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Apr 16 • 3 tweets • 2 min read
Crime is number one concern for black adults. Police doesn't even make the list. If this shocks you, ponder why you're so out of touch. Maybe even pipe down a bit on what you think are other people's priorities. There will be no NYT or NPR story on this.
pewresearch.org/race-ethnicity… Image
I mean, feel free to hate police as much as you want. It's a free country. But please don't hate police for other people you don't know and probably have a much more nuanced position on law enforcement than you do.
It's hard to imagine any other concern so important to (and lethal to) black Americans -- violence -- that white progressives would be not only be in denial about but actively work to worsen with simplistic #defund police BS.

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Apr 17
You should have seen this police critic single-handedly disarm 3 armed suspects who had 5 guns. Total badass. So he knows what he's talking about.

Remember, these reformers don't want policing. They're not just against bad policing; they're against good policing. Image
I mean police abolitionists literally complain because these cops only got one loaded gun off the street. Making fun of police. Calling it "lame." Dudes who never faced a loaded gun in their life. What the serious ef.
They hate good policing.
Now let's fact check:
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Feb 6
This is important in terms drug policy, public behavior, and policing. Indeed, most European countries have been less punitive than America in terms of drug laws. But being an addict in Portugal or NL doesn't give one carte blanche to ignore basic rules of civil society.
Some of us love to point to the NL and Portugal as examples of better drug policy. And for good reason! But when American progressive get the drug memo, it's like they're blind to the coercive part of effective public drug policy, especially with regards to public space.
It's not reactionary to say, "You can't do that here." You don't have to solve every other social problem first. You do, in addition, need more mental health care beds and other social and treatment programs.
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Jan 4
Manahttan DA Alvin Bragg, the elected prosecutor, delivers as promised. The promise: "These policy changes ... will, in and of themselves, make us safer." This is what the people voted for, whether they knew it or not. Here are Bragg's Day One Policies and Procedures. 1/
Principles: "Reserving incarceration for matters involving significant harm will make us safer."
"Invest in diversion [not prosecution] and alternatives to incarceration."
"Actively support those reentering" 2/
Decriminalization/non prosecution for marijuana, turnstile jumping, trespass, driving without a license, traffic violation, resisting arrest, interfering with an arrest (unless "significantly physically"), prostitution, all desk appearance tickets (non assault crimes) 3/
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Jan 3
Any advice about what to do if you see somebody being violently attacked in a hate crime that does not include the words"call the police" -- actively argues against it, in fact -- is misguided, dangerous, and encourages vigilante street justice. nycagainsthate.org/wekeepussafe
Get help from someone else? Someone else?! Who? My cousin Vinnie? Some dude I heard who carries a gun "for protection"? My mom? Who is this mythical untrained community member who will solve everything?
Delegating somebody to call the police is perfectly fine, though.
"Don't call police" when you see a crime in progress is like the public safety version of anti-vaxxer propaganda.
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Jan 2
Sure, maybe he was just lucky. But maybe what he did actually worked. Let's learn from success. dallasnews.com/news/commentar…
"García told me the department is every bit as proud of another statistic: “You haven’t seen a spike in arrests.” In fact, arrests have gone down by almost 5%.

“That tells us we are targeting the right individuals — not all individuals,” García said."
Using data to identify historically violent hot spots, García and his command staff deployed officers into specific blocks throughout the city to maintain a visible presence. Every so often, the patrols shift to other crime-ridden grids.
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Jan 2
Mayor Adams got the subway car two-fer with the homeless sprawl AND the crazy jumping yelling scary guy.
At the start of deBlasio's term I'd say perhaps 1 in 10 subway rides had something that would happen which would demand my attention (meaning I can't read or have a normal conversation or keep headphones on). Now it's more like 1 in 2. I just want an uneventful commute.
There were not fewer homeless or mentally ill people on the streets when deBlasio became mayor. In fact, if you you believe him, there were more. They simply don't have to be on the city's trains. Just like they're not on the suburban people's trains.
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