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Criminal defense attorney | Social activist | Documentary filmmaker | Movement strategist | Foundation director
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"The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons." -Justice Kennedy quoting Dostoyevsky
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Prisoners head off to fight California's massive wildfires.
These are the people who we write off, don't allow to vote, don't allow to become firemen once released.
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I keep coming back to this. I think it's the most important political commentary of our time.
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COVID deaths in the month since Conor’s tweet:
United States: 61,000
New Zealand: 1
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My friend Calvin Duncan who spent 28 years in Louisiana prison graduated from Tulane University today.
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Not 29% more. *29 times.*
KARE 11 Investigates: New data shows MPD searches Black drivers at 29 times the rate of whites after minor traffic stops.
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It’s kind of bizarre to feel the need to say it, but it’s a very very bad sign for a society if one cannot freely protest a genocide, ethnic cleansing, war crimes, mass graves, and the mass incineration of children. That is a very bad place for a culture to be.
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At a protest in Chicago, protestors are identifying police officers present and using a database to identify and read out how many complaints have been filed against them.
The person on the megaphone is searching up officers information on a web database and announcing how many complaints they have.
#Chicago
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Republican Party of Idaho overwhelmingly votes to require the death of women who need an abortion in order to live.
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During COVID, 11,000 federal prisoners were released early onto home confinement. Only *17 reoffended, almost all for drugs. Only one committed a new violent crime (aggravated assault) – i.e. the violent recidivism rate was 0.009%.
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Mayor admits that merely calling HIS POLICE DEPARTMENT is dangerous for black people.
Good.
Her racist behavior could have had dire consequences for a Black man.
Glad she’ll face consequences of her own.
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It is impossibly bleak and such an unmitigated disaster for the credibility of the press that they have literally done 1000s of stories about police officers having medical crises because of casual exposure to fentanyl – when medical experts tell us this is literally impossible.
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What does it say about the American press that they’ve written thousands of stories about police getting sick as a result of a casual exposure to fentanyl and yet doctors and other drug toxicity experts say that this is literally biologically impossible?
A deputy’s first-person perspective during a dangerous fentanyl exposure Thursday was captured on his body camera, along with a Narcan rescue by a fellow deputy that likely saved his life, the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office said.
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More Americans have died of COVID in the past 10 days than have died of murder in any year ever.
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In America when a poor black mentally ill man yells on a subway train, the press and conservatives jump through hoops to justify his killing. But if a guy stalks a school bus stop with an AR-15, the press will “both sides” it and conservatives see a hero.
Tonight on
@wbaltv11
: A man with an AR-15 has been showing up for weeks to a school bus drop off for local elementary school students.
Parents say their kids are afraid, the man says he’s protesting
@GovWesMoore
’s new gun control law. You’ll hear from both sides at 5+6pm.
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Two marijuana headlines from the last 24 hours say a ton about our nation.
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When a cop who violently beats the people he ostensibly serves is greeted by the cheers of fellow cops, it’s pretty strong evidence that the whole fucking barrel of apples is spoiled.
BREAKING:
@PhillyPolice
Staff Inspector Joe Bologna,54,leaves
@FOPLodge5
to turn himself in on felony charges for violent protest confrontation last week that severely injured
@TempleUniv
student,21, when hit on head with police baton
@FOX29philly
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“Other Marines are questioning Penny’s actions, and one has started a petition calling for his prosecution, arguing Penny did not act in accordance with the training Marines receive.’
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Minneapolis student walkout in protest of police no-knock raid killing of Amir Locke.
people are still filing in. Personally, this is the biggest walkout I’ve ever seen
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Just a massive indictment of the American press. They cause this wild misperception and they do not care.
77% of Americans believe crime increased last year, according to a Gallup survey released last month. Yet homicides were down in 2023, significantly. And other forms of violent crime — rape, aggravated assault and robbery — are also set to see a decline according to preliminary…
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The press got what it wanted. crime went DOWN – violent crime is DOWN and property crime is DOWN since Chesa took office – and yet the press manufactured consent for the idea that crime was up and Chesa was to blame. We live in a post-truth world of the press’ making.
BREAKING: San Francisco removes Chesa Boudin in historic recall.
See live election results, including vote breakdown by district:
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We’re six days into the new year and already more Americans have died of COVID than the entire “staggering” increase in homicides from 2019 to 2020 that the media wrote endless articles decrying.
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More Americans have died of COVID in the past 11 days than have died of murder in any year ever.
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The last words of Michael Zack, executed this evening in Florida.
One thing that is striking: so many people in our prisons, even those on death row for murder, are so much more healthy and healed than our politicians who viciously and sadistically kill them.
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For 28 years, Calvin Duncan was incarcerated at the Louisiana State Penitentiary. While there, he taught himself the law. Today he graduated from Lewis and Clark Law School. He is now Calvin Duncan, Juris Doctor.
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When people steal from large corporations its “retail theft.” When large corporations steal from people, it’s “illegal keeping.”
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One of the most stunning developments of the past few years has been that Teen Vogue has become a far better and more honest source of journalism about crime than mainstream newspapers like the New York Times.
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Just incredible. NY Times asks, “Why did the U.S. invade Iraq?” without mentioning the completely false article it published on its front page in the run-up to the war suggesting Iraq had WMDs. And its other brazen pro-war coverage more broadly.
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“I don’t think that people think Israel is a unique example of evil in the world. What’s special about it is it couldn’t do what its doing without the support of the United States. So students in the United States think *we have a responsibility.”
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Even before Brandon Johnson takes over as Chicago’s new mayor there are reports that police are refusing to intervene to help crime victims and are blaming crime on Johnson — who has literally not taken office yet.
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His first day on the job, reform DA in St. Louis County, Wesley Bell, fires prosecutor who presented Mike Brown case to grand jury, says he will no longer prosecute marijuana, will not seek death penalty, will not seek bail in misdemeanor cases.
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Oakland police paid a homeless woman $30,000 to testify about a homicide she didn’t witness. Two young men were sentenced to serve life in prison for a murder they did not commit. The real killer was never caught. Three children grew up without a father.
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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. 🧵
Crime in Austin has soared under a progressive DA. Tomorrow, Democrats will decide: Is it time to put a moderate in charge?
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This is 100 times more of a threat to free expression than 99.9% of what the elite media calls “cancel culture” and yet they will give it a tiny fraction of the attention.
The Louisiana supreme court ruled today that the organizer of a protest can be sued for a crime that occurs at that protest even if they had no involvement in that!
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Just a stunning statistic. One-third of all people killed by strangers in America are killed by police. One-third.
One-third of all people killed by strangers in America are killed by police. 97% of the officers are not charged with a crime, 99% are not convicted. Even in the most egregious cases the system refuses to hold police accountable:
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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.
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At least 28 police officers were among the insurrectionists at the Capitol.
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No. Not even close. In fact to even tease people by asking the question is profoundly irresponsible.
Compared to the 1990s:
Murder DOWN *80%*
Rape DOWN 51%
Robbery DOWN *82%*
Assault DOWN 30%
Burglary DOWN *86%*
Larceny DOWN 39%
Larceny Auto DOWN *87%*
Are crime rates in NYC higher than they have ever been? Experts weigh in
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After massive public backlash, suburban Denver District Attorney Alexis King says she will reconsider the 110 year sentence her office sought and obtained against a truck driver whose breaks failed.
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Here for the second time and again struck that this is the most profound architectural achievement in all of America.
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Candidate for president of the United States endorses extra judicial killings. This unconstitutional and fascistic wish will be ignored by the Washington Post and the New York Times. It will be nowhere mentioned in tomorrow’s newspapers.
Trump muses about police killing shoplifters and says, "that's why I'm giving immunity to police"
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Total COVID Deaths:
New Zealand; 51
United States: 820,000
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After decades of incarceration at Louisiana’s Angola prison, my friend Calvin started law school at Lewis and Clark today.
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When Columbia university suspended two pro-Ceasefire student groups, it claimed it was doing so because the groups violated university rules. Turns out the university changed those rules just days earlier with an eye towards preventing student protests.
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Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot says the city doesn’t have enough money to pay for a $2 million database of police misconduct complaints. Meanwhile the city has paid out $500 million in police misconduct lawsuits over the past 10 years.
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As Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot loses her primary tonight, it’s worth reflecting on what I thought was one of the most striking and under-remarked-on events of recent American history.
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Big clemency news: Oregon governor Kate Brown pardons 47,000+ people convicted of marijuana possession and remits $14 million in related fines.
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Notice how the press purposefully creates moral panics around destitute people stealing from retail stores but almost never writes about this far more common theft by the wealthy against the working class.
A staggering study has revealed that 3 million Texas workers are paid less than minimum wage.
Employers have been fined $99 million for paying workers less than $7.25, but bosses are just ignoring the fine.
Labor law means nothing without enforcement.
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The idea that weed busts still go on *and are boasted about* as half of rapes go unsolved shows how utterly clueless the policing profession is about public saferty.
The Field Intelligence Team from the
@NYPD67Pct
ensured nobody was receiving any illegal gifts this Christmas. The hard work of officers around NYC to keep our streets safe is remarkable.
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Earlier this year Denver created a non-police first-responder program in which mental health professionals respond to 911 calls related to mental health issues. They’ve responded to 350 calls and have needed to call for police backup zero times.
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Big night for drug policy:
OR decriminalizes possession of all drugs
OR legalizes psilocybin therapy
DC decriminalizes psilocybin
NJ legalizes cannabis
AZ legalizes cannabis
MT legalizes cannabis
SD legal cannabis up 52-48 with 70% counted
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More NYPD have died from COVID than have been shot and killed in the past 35 years combined.
NYPD cop Daniel Sanchez died from complications of COVID-19 in Staten Island on Wednesday, making him the 64th NYPD cop to die of the disease.
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When climate protestors block roads delaying some people from getting where they are going I see endless dunks on them on this site. But when an entire city of 8 million people is shut down because we haven’t heeded the protesters’ warnings, no dunks. Makes you think.
Major flooding in Brooklyn today. Trains shut down and the only way out of the station is through this.
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Violent crime PLUMMETED 22% during Chesa’s term in office. Property crime went down as well. But pundits don’t deal with reality, they only traffic in vibes.
Chesa Boudin and the lessons of the left-wing urban politics failure
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If you’re 45 years old or younger, more Americans have died in the past 22 months from COVID than have died in your entire lifetime from homicide.
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The Florida legislative session going on right now is probably the most blatantly authoritarian, democracy eroding and out-group targeting in any state since the 1890s. And the Democrats are dancing to it. A fact that should end up in every book written about the era.
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This is a public university. Absolutely wild how the media’s endless dialogue about free speech on campus and students are snowflakes has turned into a media dialogue about how we must crush speech on campus or else the world will end. It’s so transparent.
DPS appears to be prepping to disperse with a heavy, heavy showing of DPS troopers prepped in riot gear.
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The most elite magazines in America spent the last five years telling us what a grave threat woke undergrads pose to freedom of speech and inquiry. Now this kind of shit happens every day and the same publications are silent.
This is the apology a Houston school district sent to parents for assigning an illustrated version of Anne Frank's Diary to students.
The teacher was fired for assigning it.
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Less than a week after opening, NYC’s two supervised injection sites — the first two in the United States — have reversed nine overdoses.
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It’s funny, police solve less than half of all murders, about 30% of all shootings and I have NEVER ONCE seen a journalist frame that abject failure as “under pressure to prove its worth.”
Amid a surge in gun violence, the Biden admin has committed hundreds of millions of $$ to "community violence intervention" programs. Here, for
@propublica
&
@newyorker
, is my exploration of an overlooked realm that is under pressure to prove its worth.
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In New York City, more transit employees have been killed by coronavirus in the past month than all of the police shot and killed in the past *40 years*.
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Was just looking: In the 177 days since Chesa Boudin was recalled (through the end of last month): Property crime in San Francisco is UP about 14% compared to the 912 days that Chesa was in office.
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More NYC board of education employees have died of COVID this year than all of the NYPD shot in the line of duty for decades.
Have to think that teachers’ unions are taking a huge hit in public opinion this year.
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Albuquerque will eliminate bus fares, joining a growing movement of cities to make public transportation free (like driving on city streets).
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Yusef Salaam, member of the Central Park Five – wrongly convicted of a notorious rape of a jogger in Central Park in 1989 – wins Democratic primary for a NYC Council seat representing Harlem. It’s a safe Democrat seat, so his election is assured.
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So long as everyone is feeling scandalized by ICE purposely and needlessly separating parents from their children, I just thought I’d point out: that’s exactly what prosecutors do every day in criminal court in every locality in America, often for the tiniest offenses.
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If you've been tut-tutting, nit-picking Black Lives Matter, today is a good day to reflect on where you'd have been on issues in 1964.
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After 43 years in prison, 26 of them on death row, a man convicted of murder after a Georgia prosecutor systematically excluded black jurors walks free.
Here he is!!!! In real clothes and with no shackles. Am I sobbing? Yes
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Dean of Yale College forced to admit that he lied when he sent out an email saying that protests against the genocide in Gaza were a source of violence and danger.
“My email regarding the protest at Grove and Prospect was mistaken and I apologize for the suggestion that the protesters might turn violent,” Lewis wrote to the News in the late afternoon. “I was repeating speculation I had overheard and I should not have done so.”
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Violence is high and rising in Sacramento — home to “tough on crime” DA Schubert — but you won’t see a deluge of articles asking if she is the cause. Violence is a far lower in San Francisco (and decreasing), yet the press writes 1000 articles blaming it on the reform DA there.
6 dead, 10 hospitalized in downtown Sacramento shooting that happened about 2 am at 9th/K. Officers were in area, heard shots and responded.
No suspect in custody.
“We’re asking for the public’s help,” Chief Kathy Lester said.
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Chicago will end the year with shootings down ~40% from three years ago. I look forward to the media turning this into a national story just like it did three years ago when shootings were up.
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Violent crime is DOWN 20% in SF since Chesa took office and there have been 1000 articles about how crime is up and how he’s the cause. Meanwhile NYPDs’ 7 major felonies are up 40% since Eric Adams took office – how many articles center his role in causing crime to SKYROCKET?
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When someone like Donald Rumsfeld or Colin Powell dies — who needlessly killed 100,000s of people — that’s not how the newspaper encapsulates their obituary. But this highly esteemed professor’s life is reduced to her crime, driving a getaway car, more than 40 years ago.
Kathy Boudin, a former political radical who spent 22 years in prison for her role in a robbery that killed three people, died Sunday. She was 78.
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VIOLENT CRIME IN YOUR CITY IS AT A DECADES-LONG LOW YOU FEARMONGERING HACKS.
"People are freaking out."
With San Francisco mired in an intensifying debate over crime and public safety, residents are investing in self-protection.
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The scandal that's been unearthed at the Orange County Sheriff's Department & DA's Office is just mammoth. Evidence mishandled in 30,000+ police reports. Deputies lied, said they booked evidence that they never booked. 9,000 cases potentially mishandled.
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1. With Larry Krasner winning by a nearly 2 to 1 margin, I wonder how many of these reporters and editors will do some soul-searching tomorrow about the entirely fantastical backlash they sough to create without any evidence at all?
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By far the strongest argument for defunding the police is the degree to which in many major cities ostensibly “progressive” mayors seem entirely unwilling or else unable to rein in what increasing feels like a police rebellion in America.
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There are 300+ people on California death row whose sentences you could commute today. So bored of this kind of empty nonsense.
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New data this morning.
Last year American police left unsolved:
40% of murders
65% of rapes
Yet they found the resources to make:
1,632,921 drug arrests, including
599,282 arrests for marijuana possession
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1. In wake of awful double murder by well-known white supremacist in Portland, a few musings about who we find dangerous.
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It’s notable that when some law students are rude to a federal judge at Stanford 1000 lawyers and pundits wring their hands, but when some of the most elite lawyers in the country engage in a massive fraud undermining the bedrock of our democracy, that’s less of a crisis.
Jack Smith's latest indictment is strong medicine for our very sick legal profession. With
@Dahlialithwick
:
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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.
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Perhaps our nation’s worst cultural habit is that we treat people who are right “too soon” as radical and unserious rather than prescient and wise.
It took these people 6 months to come around to what the “lefty radicals” have been warning against since October. how many people would still be alive if they’d come around sooner?
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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.
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How do people get paid to write this fucking garbage? Violent crime on the NYC subway is literally DOWN **87%** since 1990s.
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Wow. Scathing new report reveals Boston’s police commissioner abused his wife, holding her face to a stove, burning her hair, kicking and choking her. He also engaged in “heated fisticuffs” with a 19 year old girl. Oh, and the department covered it up.
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A year after San Francisco replaced its reformer DA with the “tough on crime” crowd’s favored candidate, violent crime has gone UP and prosecutions of drug dealers has gone DOWN. Looking forward to 1000 articles in the national press about this.
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More MTA employees have died from coronavirus in the past couple weeks than all of the NYPD officers who have been shot and killed over the last 30 years.
Coronavirus and the MTA:
33 employees dead
1,100+ tested positive
5,600 quarantined
"Everyone's struggling to come to work everyday but that's what the heroes of the MTA do," Feinberg says
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State that just became the first jurisdiction in history to execute someone via nitrogen hypoxia writes “human life cannot be wrongfully destroyed without incurring the wrath of a Holy God who views the destruction of his image as an affront to himself.”
I wanted to point out how openly, jarringly theocratic the Alabama Chief Justice’s concurrence is.
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Is there ever any repercussion for reporters who get things wildly wrong?
Elon Musk, who has overseen a rise in antisemitism and other hate speech on Twitter, made a series of attacks on George Soros, tweeting the Jewish-born investor and liberal philanthropist hates humanity and “wants to erode the very fabric of civilization.”
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Last night in San Francisco, 9 people were shot. Back when Chesa Boudin was DA, almost every article about crime in the city centered him, as though he were to blame for every incident. Now that he’s been replaced, AND VIOLENT CRIME IS UP, none of these articles mention the DA.
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Tragic high profile crime in San Francisco. EXACTLY the type of crime the NY Times framed around Chesa Boudin when he was DA. Yet now that there is a new DA in office — and violent crime is UP — the article isn’t framed as a failure of the DA.
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Still the most important political commentary of our time.
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In a “breathtaking disrespect” for the law, “100s of Connecticut state police troopers falsified information on at least 26,000 traffic stops from 2014 to 2021.”
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Biggest criminal justice story that the press isn't writing about: Colorado DOC has reduced the use of solitary confinement from ~1500 people, many for longer than a decade, to ZERO people longer than 15 DAYS. Now complies with "Mandela Rules."
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New York City police shot a man to death on a Brooklyn street this afternoon. He appeared to be carrying a "metal object" in his hand. The metal object was a "shower head," police sources said.
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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.
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More Americans have died of COVID in the past ~21 months than have died of homicide in the past ~45 years.
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Dozens of members of the United States Congress ask President Biden to commute the sentences of all of the people on federal death row.
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I don’t know how else to say this, but
@AliWatkins
@nytimes
MURDERS IN NEW YORK DID NOT DOUBLE this year or last year or ever. THIS DID NOT HAPPEN. NOT EVEN CLOSE. YOU ARE LYING TO YOUR READERS. What a goddamn disgrace.
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