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Jared Chausow
@jchausow
Thought Follower. Social Media Influenced. Inertiator. @internetofshit 2020. he/him.
Aug 3, 2022 • 27 tweets • 5 min read
Mayor Adams is again lying about bail reform, adopting the Republican narrative about what they call “repeat offenders,” and the media is reprinting it without even pausing to take a breath, much less fact-check. So let's clarify a few things about the law:

🧵 A quick note on terminology: A person arrested more than once is not a "repeat offender". Tons of arrests — more than half — are eventually dismissed. More importantly, repeat arrests or even repeat convictions prove the failure of punishment to fix the underlying problem.
Mar 9, 2022 • 9 tweets • 4 min read
Wow. In January, NYPD falsely alleged a 16 year-old resisted a lawful search & in the struggle, the teen's gun went off, hitting himself & then the officer's leg. The DA prosecuted. Mayor Adams (wrongly) blamed bail reform. This is how the NY Times presented it. But now...1/2 ...a judge who saw video evidence says the officer was lying every which way. The cops were conducting an apparently illegal search, and the teen complied with it and kept his hands up. The teen is, in essence, a victim of a police-involved shooting. nydailynews.com/new-york/ny-c-…
Feb 26, 2020 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
One scary thing about advocacy to protect the success of bail reform is that some pols actually believe cops’ and prosecutors’ shtick about “supporting reforms” and “just wanting tweaks”.

“No one should be jailed because they can’t afford $500,” they say.

Who jailed them?? Money bail didn’t jail people. The old bail laws didn’t jail people. Cops jailed people and prosecutors and judges kept them jailed by requesting and setting, respectively, unaffordable bail despite a range of options for release (ROR, unsecured bonds, etc.)
Feb 17, 2020 • 18 tweets • 7 min read
Bail reform is working. Thousands of New Yorkers have been spared the trauma of jail and still come to court. But what about that guy in the Daily News w/ 138 arrests? A 2015 study finds: “Tailored supportive housing is likely to be less costly and improve outcomes.” [Thread] In 2015, NYC's Bureau of Correctional Health Services studied 800 of the people most frequently cycling in and out of jail. People like the man with repeated arrests on the cover of @NYDailyNews. What they found: Jail wasn’t working as rehabilitation or deterrent.