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1. The desire to denigrate the “defund the police” movement – an important goal of reactionary-liberal media-commentators who enjoy punching left – erases the massive value and deep insight that

1. So much of the focus on progressive prosecutors is about the “front-end” – i.e. new cases. But if you want to see what a progressive prosecutor can do on the

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

1. Important op-ed in @Oregonian today by Calvin Duncan, a formerly incarcerated person and first-year law student at @lewisandclark Law School. He argues Oregon AG @EllenRosenblum should stop blocking relief

1. Whether Kamala Harris was a “progressive prosecutor” strikes me as asking the wrong question. The issue is until a couple of years ago — and still today almost everywhere

1. Here’s the thing about the politics right now: Trump desperately wants it to seem like there’s a conflict between protesters and *federal officers. And actually that’s exactly what Democratic

1. While many want to blame this on the Trump Justice Deoartment and the conservative Supreme Court, it’s critical to understand this is the culmination of the actions of Bill

1. When I read these arrogant whiners at Harpers complaining essentially about experiencing criticism for the garbage they write and having the gall to call that “cancel culture,” I’m reminded

1. So much this. There are *tons* of situations where police needlessly shoot people having mental health crises armed with knives, for example, where in many other countries the person

1. More than *five weeks* ago now I wrote this thread about how coronavirus was going to impact rural prison communities.https://twitter.com/davidminpdx/status/1240680883868168192?s=20 2. My main point in that thread, and in

1. I have been looking to see whether corrections officer/staff unions might stand up to the dangerous conditions at jails and prisons and call for what every public health expert

1. Jails and prisons are becoming the epicenter of the coronavirus in America. And it's hard to overstate the degree to which the corrections profession has failed. 2. The infection