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SN's avatar

So accurate. Thank you for sharing! You came and spoke to my class at Denver Law a few months ago, and everything you said was so spot on. It was such an informative talk that so many needed to hear. It's amazing how societally accepted retributivism is as a natural, humane way to remind the person of their past, allowing no room for improvement, especially when it fails to deter crime. The enhanced encouragement of law enforcement support mixed with the fearmongering and false hope that somehow more police will fix all these "crimes" makes me slightly ... depressed.

I wish everybody could read this.

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Linda MacDonald's avatar

The Boston police are in union negotiations and the Boston Globe also included the “shortage” Copaganda., as well as, the current trope that no one wants to be a cop anymore. This is given as fact despite the very long civil service list of people looking to be police officers in MA. Additionally, the fact that 24 officers decided to become Boston Firefighters last year is also given as evidence that police are unhappy. No one investigated how 24 officers could seemingly transfer to another publicly paid job in Boston despite a very long civil service list of people trying to be FF.*Police in Boston are also hyping weapon arrest in BPS and fearmongering to get police officers back in the BPS. A big part of the union negotiations is the monopoly on construction details for police officers in Boston. So much wrong in “liberal” MA. *I know your emphasis is what’s wrong with the criminal justice system but Another big opportunity cost is the existence/ growth of career FF despite a significant decline in fires. White male welfare.

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