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Scott Hechinger
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I am sorry to inform you all that America is, in fact, not "exceptional." Except for the facts that: The United States has, by far, the highest incarceration rate in
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I represented the man who this ex-NYPD detective lied into a violent felony indictment. Michael Bergman completely fabricated a fake crime out of spite. If convicted, would’ve faced minimum 3.5
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In the noise of national news, you may have missed that Lake Charles, LA was devastated by Hurricane Laura. And the public defender office was destroyed. Records gone. Defenders now
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Lori Loughlin gets two months in jail. There’s a man caged in Prince George’s County, MD jail who pled 6 months ago to petty theft & *still hasn’t gotten his
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Just as COVID struck, I met Lacie. A public defender in Louisiana. The *only* in East Baton Rouge assigned to represent the 12k arrested each year at bail hearings. Since
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Good morning. Michael Thompson is 68. Serving 60 years in Michigan for a marijuana sale 25 years ago. Mom, dad, & son died while inside. Was cuffed at his mom's
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My new op-ed. The NYPD is *unreformable.* Despite decades of reform, they're still using banned chokeholds. Cars, chemicals, bicycles & batons as weapons. Conduct that, if committed by people I
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The @ManhattanDA charged this man being punched in the face with violent felony assault on the cop. The claimed injury was the *swelling to cop’s fist.* Read that again. Take
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Dear human beings who know things on here. I’d like to crowdsource outrageous outcomes/consequences of the irrational laws, policies, & decisions that characterize our criminal punishment system. Facts, data, stories,
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Crunching numbers. The 2020 NYPD budget for just transit & transportation ($494 million) could instead fund 3 full years of unlimited metrocards for every one of the 88373 people arrested
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We got it entirely wrong. Police shouldn’t be given more leeway to lie, hurt, maim, & kill. They should be held to far higher standards. Face more accountability. Heavier consequences
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Stop patting yourself & your racist police commissioner on the damn backs. The same cop pistol-whipped a teenager in 2014 over a bag of weed & nothing was done. Now
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