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“Despite police, county executives and national pundits falsely labeling bail reform a disaster, in the few places like New York state that have tried it, bail reform has been a win for freedom.”

My latest with @ScottHech for @NBCNews.

#FactsNotFear 🧵 nbcnews.com/think/opinion/…
82% of Manhattan voters voted for Kathy Hochul over Lee Zeldin & his fear mongering. The idea that crime was on the ballot is absurd. In fact, NYC is safest of the 6 larger US cities. Bail reform has been a success with rearrest rates the same now as prior to its implementation. Image
Crime wasn’t even the #1 issue for Zeldin voters in NY. 65% told the AP that the economy was their biggest concern. It shouldn’t be understated the degree to which the media worked to manufacture consent around crime as the #1 issue & even GOP voters to rejected it. Image
The media & fear mongering politicians have been falsely linking “spikes” in crime to NY’s bail reforms. New data analysis by @FWDus shows that the % of people re-arrested under bail reform is basically the same as prior to bail reform. Bail reform doesn’t fuel crime. Image
In NYC, crime reporting & bail reform media mentions are totally unhinged from actual crime levels. The attacks on bail reform have everything to do with pro-incarceration politics & nothing to do with actual crime. Rearrest rates are the same now as before bail reform. Image
In NY, the bail reform debate is totally unhinged from reality. It’s a completely manufactured issue. The data shows that the % of people re-arrested under bail reform is basically the same as prior to it. Bail reform doesn’t fuel crime. The media knows it. Politicians know it.
Candidates who told the truth about bail reform’s success and stood strong against fearmongering won like State Assembly Speaker, Carl Heastie, who defended bail reform and maintained his Democratic supermajority.
. @GovKathyHochul stood by reforms and data and beat back Zeldin’s fear mongering.

NYC is safest out of the 6 largest cities in the US & 3-in-5 boroughs are amongst the 15 safest counties in America.

8-in-10 states w/ the highest murder rates are GOP & voted Trump in 2020.
Attacks against bail reform have no grounding in any type of data because the data is clear. NY’s bail reforms have been a huge success for public safety: +200,000 more people free, ~100% not rearrested for violent felonies (same as before reform), +$600 million in cost savings. Image
Why are people scared? Crime coverage on Fox spiked when Democrats began to lead in polls. Then CNN & MSNBC followed Fox’s fear mongering. While crime reporting is disconnected from actual crime, how media conspires to manufacture consent is interconnected.
“Fear mongering is political strategy, not news.”
Top: CBS brazenly fear mongering.

Bottom: Since NY enacted bail reform, Nassau county was twice named safest community in the US by U.S. News & World Report.

Data: According to Nassau Police, 97.8% of ppl released without bail were NOT rearrested in the 1st half of ‘22. Image
TheNassau County Mayors who called for the repeal of bail reform were motivated by politics, not public safety. Since NY enacted bail reform, Nassau was twice named safest community in the US. They know that the safest communities have the most resources, not people in jail.
Trying to scapegoat bail reform for failures in political strategy & leadership and complicity in GOP lies & fear mongering is beyond reprehensible.

Bail reform does NOT fuel crime. It has not made NY less safe. We cannot succumb to the power of #copaganda.

@ScottHech 🧵👇🏽
Op-Ed: “We are at a critical juncture. The truth about bail reform isn’t just a political game — it is a moral imperative. Public opinion may all too often be driven by fear instead of  facts, but that isn’t a reason for politicians to ignore them.” nbcnews.com/think/opinion/…

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Important @washingtonpost reporting on how Fox News is working overtime to falsely convince viewers the US is in a “crime crisis” without any data to support the claim. “Last year, and so far this year, Fox News has mentioned crime twice as often as its competitors on average.”🧵 Image
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There’s a massive prison strike happening in Alabama right now. In protest of the inhumane conditions, incarcerated people across multiple facilities are refusing to perform prison labor. AL is 1 of only 5 states that pay incarcerated people $0 for forced labor. #ShutDownADOC2022
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Who parked the car on the tracks? Who put the woman into the car? Who ran for their own safety in the face of an oncoming train, abandoning a woman they had tied up inside a cop car on the train tracks? THE COPS! THE COPS! THE COPS! THE COPS! THE COPS! THE COPS! THE COPS!!!!!!!!!
At this point, the NYT is committing journalistic malpractice to mask police negligence, killings, misconduct, assault, and malfeasance. When it come to cops, subject-verb agreement goes out the window at the NYT. Every rule of grammar gets bent toward the exonerative voice.
According to the NYT, the cops had nothing to do with it. This is a story about a freight train that collided with a car, a woman who was just sitting in the car at the time, and a car that had mysteriously straddled the tracks. No action ascribed to the cops at fault.
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Today, I’m sending a last food package to an incarcerated friend because NYSDOCCS is banning incarcerated people from receiving packages from home so private companies can then price gouge families. This exploitative policy will also severely limit access to nutritious food.
In New York, incarcerated people & their families will now be charged ridiculous mark-ups to create profits for companies.

3 oz Salmon marked up 46%

$2.97 @ Walmart

$4.35 @ prison vendor
DOCCS has long claimed that drugs are being smuggled in via packages and visits but the evidence shows that the vast majority of drugs are smuggled in by corrections officers themselves. timesunion.com/7dayarchive/ar…
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Jun 27, 2021
This is 76 yr old Gwen Levy who was returned to prison for not answering a call from her federal probation officer while in this computer class. They told her lawyer, “because she could have been robbing a bank, [we’re] going to treat her as if she was robbing a bank.”
Gwen is one of about 4,500 people who were released from federal prisons last year to protect them from contracting the coronavirus. But she is the latest example of how systems of probation & parole perpetuate failure rather than facilitate success. washingtonpost.com/local/public-s…
Just want to add a correction: It is Gwen Levi, not Levy.
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Jan 8, 2021
I’m pissed.

I did an interview for the @LegalExaminer on Pell Restoration. The piece went to print riddled with stigmatizing & derogatory language. I reached out to @WriterElaineS requesting that the article be updated using person-first language. 1/8 legalexaminer.com/legal/new-law-…
I sent her @MorganGodvin & @szarlotka’s timely article, “The words journalists use often reduce humans to the crimes they commit. But that’s changing,” as a reference. She forwarded my request to her editor @EditorRoy1. 2/8 poynter.org/reporting-edit…
Roy wants to keep using words like inmate & convict because the @AP still uses them and because he needs to make “stories clear, concise, and readable.” But Roy, there are a lot of words that make stories clear, concise, and readable that are unacceptable to use (e.g faggot). 3/8
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