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nothin' hootin' matters!!!


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aetataureate
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nys
@nys

basically every prosecutor elected in the last several decades has been elected on being “tough” on crime. even what might be called “reformists” slowly skew towards “tough” because they are influenced by the police who can (and will) torpedo cases if they dislike the prosecutor’s stance on certain crimes.

what has happened to public defenders and defense attorneys mirrors what has happened to unions and i am hopeful that what we are seeing with unions will be mirrored (eventually). part of this is that most people only see defense attorneys when the cases are high profile and gain media attention, then they really remember the ones they have negative feelings about, and americans tend to have stronger feelings about “guilty” people going free (literally the OPPOSITE of the founders) so their biases about defense attorneys are “validated” (v similar to the “welfare state” and “public programs bad”).

anyways it, no joke, all comes back to our society still being puritanical which punishes positive/sexual/gratifying emotions and uses violence and justice as relief valves because otherwise people go insane. fuck the pilgrims. fuck the puritans. fuck the prosectors. FUCK EM ALL BURN THE SYSTEM. to the dildo guillotine with them.

i have many more feelings. but i have to do my capitalist bullshit so i can eat. this has been positive thoughts with nys.


kukkurovaca
@kukkurovaca

Almost all the other stuff about Satan was invented out of canon. I've posted about this previously.

Anywho, yeah, prosecutors are cops and they suck. And prosecutors in solidly "blue" cities do some of the most harm. Is it the worse class of elected in the US? No, that's still sheriffs, but prosecutors aren't out of the race.

We are seeing some more hardline reformists entering district attorney races and winning. It's rare, but it makes the right (both nationally and locally) completely lose their shit. Any DA that is perceived as being anti-cop becomes enemy number one for the center-right.

Hence the massive endeavor that was the Chesa recall in SF. And the right-wing astroturf social media sock accounts have pivoted seamlessly to Pamela Price in Oakland since the moment she was elected.


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in reply to @aetataureate's post:

people in the united states are out for blood when it comes to the idea of a "criminal"

Whether they realize it or not, I think many people conceive of "criminal" as a social class. People in that class are perceived as deserving of punishment, and that's only tangentially related to whether they performed this specific crime, or any crime, or burden of proof. And the converse also becomes true, that people who aren't in that social class are not the ones who deserve punishment, regardless of their actual actions.

The use of AI and statistical techniques can entrench this invisible assumption, by categorizing people as "crime-prone." Oh you have a cousin who went to jail? Model says your risk of incarceration is up 35%, that means that for the same crime you get a longer sentence. Disparate impact, what's that?

in reply to @nys's post:

nys, i totally am with you, and also . . . am thinking now about how intentional it is to separate the person who "catches" the criminal and the person who prosecutes them. a prosecutor is handed an out of context file and told they need to hit a certain close rate just like a police officer. it's so dehumanizing and sick.