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David Menschel
@davidminpdx
Criminal defense attorney | Social activist | Documentary filmmaker | Movement strategist | Foundation director
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Aug 6 • 16 tweets • 5 min read
1. Anyone who cares about criminal justice reform should be excited about Kamala Harris’ selection of Minnesota Tim Walz to be her running mate. Over the past couple of years he has signed into law a ton of significant criminal justice reforms. For example: 2. Minnesota legalized and regulated marijuana.
mprnews.org/story/2023/05/…
Aug 4 • 19 tweets • 7 min read
1. Look I would vote for Kamala Harris over Donald Trump if she picked the Devil himself as her Vice President, but just for the record Gov. Shapiro fucking sucks on criminal justice issues and has repeatedly given the finger to criminal justice reform. 2. The guy masquerades as a progressive, but has long been an enemy of criminal justice reform. This erupted in a very public way at a Netroots Nation conference where he was confronted by reformers in the audience. inquirer.com/news/netroots-…
Mar 5 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
1. This is completely false. A blatant lie. The fact that a journalist is printing this verifiable falsehood ONE DAY BEFORE AN ELECTION so that it can’t be rebutted is journalistic malpractice in the extreme. And yes, I have receipts. 🧵 2. Let’s start with VIOLENT CRIME.

Let’s compare the number of violent crimes in the year before the progressive DA took office (on January 1, 2021) and the number of violent crimes last year.

2020: 20,657
2023: 18,568

Violent crime is DOWN 10%
Oct 1, 2023 • 20 tweets • 6 min read
1. This piece is so bad for so many reasons. Another laughable data-free “death of Portland” caricature in the NY Times’ endless series. Just such lazy garbage. 2. As I’ve said many times, if Portland is dying, most American cities are dying, since if one looks at data, based on many metrics, Portland is doing pretty decently compared to most cities. Crime is up, for example, but remains average for a US city.  
Sep 5, 2023 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
1. Of course shoplifting isn’t victimless. 2. Despite relentless media efforts to create a moral panic around it, evidence suggests theft is extremely low right now. 3. There is almost no evidence the typical theft by “organized rings.” … 4. “Organized rings” are such a fluid category, they could mean a ton of different things. 5. Lots of people stealing from retail stores even if “organized” (ie not working alone) are probably pretty hard up — it’s a shitty way to make a buck….
Aug 14, 2023 • 7 tweets • 4 min read
CNBC effectively points out that the national media, including, among many others, the New York Times, has been effectively helping retailers gaslight the public about a massive “wave” of shoplifting that data suggests is low by historic standards. https://t.co/mklU78wC50cnbc.com/2023/08/10/ret…
Image To the extent that loss is a problem, internally, large retailers identify theft by their own employees and new self-checkout technology – not the sensational examples of roving bands of poor/black people caught on video that newspapers depict in hysterical terms. Image
May 15, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
How do people get paid to write this fucking garbage? Violent crime on the NYC subway is literally DOWN **87%** since 1990s. Image During the pandemic subway ridership plummeted and subway crime did as well – thereby *causing the 2022 return to normal to look like a big increase in % terms. But even in 2022 after this large % increase, there were 2200 felonies on the subway *DOWN FROM 18,000* in the 1990s. Image
Mar 9, 2023 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
1. Even as wrongful convictions go this one is outrageous. The witness to a murder picked out the photo of a black youth named Sheldon Thomas. Police then knowingly arrested a *different black youth, also named Sheldon Thomas who they had a beef with. nytimes.com/2023/03/09/nyr… 2. Again, detectives, prosecutors and even the original trial judge “knew from the outset” that the witness had picked out a different person “but they proceeded anyway.” It’s beyond outrageous. Image
Mar 6, 2023 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
1. As blatantly false fearmongering about crime reaches new heights in Washington DC, I just want to point out that data shows violent crime is at historic lows in DC. Step one: here is FBI data showing violent crime in DC 1985-2020. Image 2. Step two: In 2021, according to Washington DC’s police department, DC’s violent crime rate went up a bit less than 6%. Image
Jan 30, 2023 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
What most people refuse to understand is that police ARE TRAINED specifically to KILL PEOPLE. I mean Dave Grossman, one of the most popular and celebrated police trainers in America describes his discipline as KILLOLOGY and wrote a book called ON KILLING. motherjones.com/politics/2017/… For the last several decades Grossman has presented many 1000s of trainings to 100,000s of police – including officers in large departments run by police chiefs that the media portrays as progressive and respectable. motherjones.com/politics/2017/…
Jan 27, 2023 • 11 tweets • 2 min read
1. It’s important to understand the role that Barack Obama, Eric Holder and Loretta Lynch played in this execution spree. 2. After Trump one the 2020 election, before Barack Obama left office, activists contacted the White House and asked that Obama commute the death sentences of everyone on federal death row before he left office.
Jan 26, 2023 • 18 tweets • 4 min read
1. This is pretty much the police position, word for word, about why they spend virtually all of their massive budgets going after people for committing the tiniest of crimes. This was also the justification for stop and frisk. 2. They do this “pretext” policing despite the fact that only a teeny tiny percentage of people who they accost are found with illegal guns or outstanding warrants.
Jan 25, 2023 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
The silence from the phony Harper’s Letter people, the New York Times and Atlantic Magazine reveal that they’re just a bunch of fucking hypocrites who want college kids, black activists, and trans people to get off their lawn. They never gave a shit about free speech. This is a key point. For most of the people who have been talking about free speech the most loudly, crushing woke speech in the name of “free speech” was ALWAYS the true goal.
Dec 4, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Yesterday for the first time in our nation’s 230+ year history, a former president who is also a candidate for president publicly called for the “termination” of the Constitution. Today’s New York Times front page DOESN’T EVEN MENTION IT?!?! Obama once wore a tan suit and the national press treated it as more of a scandal than Donald Trump openly calling for the end to the 223 year old American Republic.
Nov 11, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Crime has skyrocketed under Adams. The Seven Major Felonies are up 29%. Even though study after study shows it, some Democrats hate social science just like Trump. They refuse to accept that “tough on crime” is often “dumb on crime.” Idiots like this also refuse to acknowledge that Adams blatantly lied about crime in New York repeatedly saying that it’s the highest it’s been in his memory. In fact crime in New York City is quite low. Last year homicides were ninth LOWEST in 60 years.
Nov 11, 2022 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
Fetterman voted for clemency for 50+ murderers while on the pardon board! He won. Shapiro’s platform called for reforming PA’s murder laws to make them less punitive! He won. Republican PA House tried to impeach Krasner in the weeks leading up to the election. They lost. And note, Fetterman did BETTER than Oz with voters who cared most about crime!!!
Nov 11, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Notice how this reporter just blatantly falsely states the crime has improved under Adams when in fact crime is much much worse under Adams. In fact major felonies are 30% worse. The reporters carry water for him so blatantly — publish outright lies. If reporters cared to print true information they could look up the data online. Its right here. Seven major felony offenses are up 29% under Adams. Rape is up 11%. Robbery 32%. Assault 14%. But they don’t care they just deal in vibes not reality. nyc.gov/assets/nypd/do…
Nov 11, 2022 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
1. As many of you know, I am a proponent of (and have personally benefitted from) psychedelic therapy. In 2020, here in Oregon, we legalized psilocybin in a therapeutic environment. The law goes into effect in January. This week psychedelics were again on the ballot. 🧵 2. You may have heard that on Tuesday Colorado passed a ballot measure that would legalize and regulate a slightly broader range of psychedelics there. marijuanamoment.net/colorado-voter…
Nov 10, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
It’s worth remembering that earlier this year Eric Adams said that he had “never seen crime at this level.” This is just complete bullshit. It’s not a little false, it’s a wild lie. A lie that would make Donald Trump blush. Last year homicides in New York were the ninth LOWEST that they’ve been in 60 years. And the seven major felony offenses were down compared to every single year that Bloomberg was mayor (not to mention Giuliani, Dinkins and Koch).
Nov 9, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Former head public defender wins race for head prosecutor in Minneapolis. Despite the ENDLESS crime fear stirred up by the national media, the movement to elect reform prosecutors marches on. boltsmag.org/election-for-h… Former public defender wins race for head prosecutor of Des Moines, Iowa. (More here from June when she won the primary: boltsmag.org/reformer-wins-…)
Nov 4, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
1. This is the kind of thing that should be a huge scandal but instead is just the run of the mill garbage that pro-carceral academics do – in this case two Harvard professors. equalityalec.substack.com/p/a-warning-to… 2. Often I think the worst scholarship is data-driven and economic in nature. It has an air of authority and science, but often when you scratch the surface it turns out to be utter bullshit. But few have the training to penetrate jargon and expose the bullshit.