RuthBaderG t1_j60hrhj wrote
Incarceration destroys families and communities and increases violence. We will never incarcerate our way out of this problem
Xanny t1_j61lxxx wrote
Most of the extreme incarcerations that ruined neighborhoods were drug related in the last 40 years, not violent crime related.
We can be hard on violence and decriminalize drugs and stop the racist drug war.
Drugs right now only overlap so hugely with violent crime because both are heavily criminalized. And while hard drugs like heroin will never be good, we can approach them as a health problem rather than a crime problem and reduce violence along the way.
ok_annie t1_j61num4 wrote
Decriminalization solves very little. It still leaves manufacture and distribution in the hands of violent criminals who are cool with murder for profit and will cut everything with fentanyl. Legalization and regulation are the only way.
TheSpektrModule OP t1_j60rclo wrote
Violent criminals with guns destroy communities and increase violence.
WillieKeeler96 t1_j63c84o wrote
Possession is violent against whom?
RuthBaderG t1_j61abjk wrote
Sure let’s keep trying what we’ve been doing for the last 50 years that hasn’t worked
XxCloudSephiroth69xX t1_j61e6wx wrote
Baltimore has not been giving significant jail time to gun offenders at any point in recent history, so they can't really "keep" doing it. One of the city's last homicide victims had 4 gun arrests by the ripe old age of 25. If he had actually been held for one of the more recent ones he'd still be alive.
TheSpektrModule OP t1_j61h6hv wrote
> that hasn’t worked
Until the last few years crime rates in the United States had been dropping at a remarkable rate for decades, decades that just happened to coincide with the rise of so-called mass incarceration.
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