Viivusvine

Viivusvine t1_j9v8rk5 wrote

Reply to comment by _Hack_The_Planet_ in A man was shoved onto Blue Line tracks in Revere. He landed on his feet and just barely missed getting hit by an oncoming train. by _Hack_The_Planet_

To anyone who doesn’t have a NYT subscription, “policing as we know it must be abolished before it can be transformed.” The article isn’t about permanently abolishing police. Americans have actually been talking about the “bad apples” in the police force since at least Prohibition. It’s evidently not working.

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Viivusvine t1_iujzc4y wrote

Reply to comment by teenytinyvoid in They caught the Brighton Peeping Tom by capnlumps

Why trust the risk assessment in the first place if the system is broken? McClinton was a Level 3 sex offender by the time the MA Bail Fund covered his release.

How egregious does the crime have to be before the bail fund says that the risk assessment was wrong?

The McClinton case doesn’t deserve to be diminished as a mere “anomaly.” This is a known issue with the MA Bail Fund.

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Viivusvine t1_iuifewi wrote

Reply to comment by teenytinyvoid in They caught the Brighton Peeping Tom by capnlumps

So since rich rapists can be released back to the public, so should poor rapists? That’s BS. I’m not OK with someone being assaulted because some out-of-touch organization is too hung up over single-issue philosophical purism that they can’t exercise common sense.

You can fight to abolish cash bail AND fight to keep dangerous people off the streets at the same time. Criminal justice reform can only work if it’s done holistically, not incrementally and on an issue-by-issue basis.

The MA Cash Bail fund knew what McClinton was being charged with. He was in fact a REPEAT OFFENDER and that was public record. The fact is that they knew but they didn’t care.

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Viivusvine t1_iui5759 wrote

Reply to comment by 9Z7EErh9Et0y0Yjt98A4 in They caught the Brighton Peeping Tom by capnlumps

Cash bail needs to be phased out, but that doesn’t mean that bail funds don’t deserve their share of criticism.

Remember that the MA Bail Fund doled out $15k in donations to bail out Shawn McClinton, who was charged with rape. He then raped ANOTHER woman after his release.

Investigators found that the MA bail fund had paid for the release of many others charged with violent and/or sexual crimes, even against children. So yeah, nothing wrong with criticizing bail funds until they work that out.

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