fuck it. i'm just sitting in this hospital waiting room killing time. let's do it, then.

as DA of SF, KH's signature reform program – she called it a "personal responsibility program," which pretty clearly illustrates the respectabilty thing — was called Back on Track. https://twitter.com/mediajunkie/status/1319623685955743746

to participate in BoT, which was meant to be divert people who had been arrested away from incarceration, people had to accept a plea deal. Harris underlined this a lot — she said we're not gonna pretend you're not a criminal, so you need to accept responsibility for your actions

the stipulation was: we'll expunge that felony conviction from your record once you complete BoT — which included job training, housing support, literacy help and other things — under supervision from the DA's office.

And BoT worked pretty well for the people who completed it.

About that, though.

It was a VERY small program. And per Walker Bragman's reporting, "just 241 individuals completed the BOT program between 2007 and 2011; 308 individuals left without finishing."

Would you call this program...successful? Given its scale and its attrition rates — and the fact that all those people who *didn’t complete it* have felonies on their records that will make it harder to find jobs and housing?

“can’t wait to to hear the benefits of truancy!“

mmmm, so siccing the agents of the criminal legal system on the poor for their own good

Gotta love “reformers,” man https://twitter.com/mediajunkie/status/1319638453101883393?s=20

Deploying the police and prosecutors to fix problems related to poverty, even if you say you’re well-intentioned, is going to get you the outcomes police and prosecutors are empowered to execute: arrests and incarceration.