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Sep 24 • 2 tweets • 1 min read
Crime is up in San Francisco since Chesa Boudin was removed from office. I’m sure the national media will write 1000 stories about how it shows that traditional “tough on crime” policies are a failure and must be ended. sfexaminer.com/news/shootings…
Both violent and property crime are UP in San Francisco during the period since the new “tough on crime” DA came into office compared to the same time period last year and the same time period two years ago – when Chesa was in office.

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Sep 23
Elite media writes 10,000th article asking the same question. But somehow no one ever examines whether the fact the police solve less than half of homicides and less than a quarter of shootings causes crime. So bored of this garbage. God the media fucking sucks.
I’m so old I remember when the media published dozens of articles asking this question and suggesting that Larry Krasner had no hope for reelection even before the reelection happened and he won 70 to 30. God these people suck so badly.
Remember this? That was fun. God these people suck.
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Sep 9
1. I’m still stunned by this – but it’s so revealing about the New York Times and how it puts its thumb on the scale, trying to kill criminal justice reform.
2. Last month a reformer beat the notorious tough on crime incumbent Amy Weirich in the race for Shelby Co. DA. It was a huge win for reformers. Shelby is larger than San Francisco. And yet while the Times wrote endlessly about Chesa’s loss, it ignored Weirich’s defeat.
3. Meanwhile check this out: in Los Angeles there have been several UNSUCCESSFUL efforts to collect enough signatures that would then allow a vote asking whether reform DA George Gascon should be recalled. These have FAILED AT THE SIGNATURE COLLECTION STAGE.
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Sep 8
This is like cancel culture on steroids times 1 million but it won’t get even a fraction of the attention of what a handful of Oberlin college kids do because the people who claim to care about cancel culture are the biggest phonies on the planet. nytimes.com/2022/09/08/nyr…
Cancel culture isn’t when the president SEEKS TO IMPRISON HIS CRITICS, it’s only when college kids don’t want to hang out with their conservative peers and people protest Dave Chappelle.
The real threat to American values is a handful of utterly powerless people using their constitutional right to freedom of association not the most powerful man in the world acting like an autocrat.
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Aug 26
1. Even among wrongful conviction cases, this one is so infuriating.

New Orleans man who served 36 years for rape he didn't commit released from prison. nola.com/news/courts/ar…
2. Even primitive pre-DNA blood tests could have exonerated Sullivan Walter at his trial. But at trial his defense lawyer failed him and then on appeal, the prosecutors cynically changed their story — and courts let the prosecutors get away with it. nola.com/news/courts/ar…
3. A woman was raped. The perpetrator’s face was partially covered. Police had Sullivan’s photo on file from an unrelated crime. They put it in an array. The rape victim picked out the photo.
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Aug 23
1. This thread is interesting. Josh Shapiro, while progressive in some ways, has been a real enemy of the criminal justice reform community. But even as he’s locked in a high stakes race with a very conservative opponent, he seems to be moving to the left on criminal justice.
2. He held a meeting a couple of weeks ago with formerly incarcerated people.
3. And he spelled out a pretty decent set of promises here. joshshapiro.org/news/criminal-…
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Aug 8
1. I want to share with you a project that some friends and I have been working on for the better part of a decade. It’s called the Visiting Room. It’s a video archive of 100+ interviews of people serving LWOP sentences at Louisiana’s Angola prison.
visitingroomproject.org
2. Angola is the largest correctional facility in the United States. It’s literally located on an old slave plantation on a rural bend in the Mississippi River. Much like an old plantation, the place relies heavily on inmate labor.
3. I first visited Angola almost a decade ago. I was struck by the incarcerated people I met there, many of whom were older and utterly rehabilitated but who were serving LWOP sentences – meaning they had virtually no prospect of release.
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