Will San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin support this shift in approach?
If you want meaningful change first audit the funds disbursement of organizations which allegedly exist to aid the homeless of SF. You may be shocked to discover what is actually happening.
Other cities look to follow SF's steps of restorative justice.
I think this is bad, but I can't be sure.
Since I don't live in SF, I want SF to go all the way with the restorative justice to see if it works. Maybe I'm wrong. This is a low cost way of experimenting.
Here is the kicker: SF residents also want more restorative justice (based on their official votes).
We all from other cities should help support Chesa.
We will all benefit from the restorative justice experiment, and SF residents get what they vote for. It is a win win.
I agree with you that it won't work.
To my surprise, there are tons of people who support restorative justice. I'd even go as far as it is the majority of SF voters.
In any case, with a sociology problem and solution like this, we can't be too arrogant to say whether one would work or not.
So, I want SF to follow through with it.
Other countries that are actually progressive (not just woke) have found better ways to clean up cities but also decriminalize drugs. The red light district in Amsterdam is cleaner than almost any part of SF. What we are doing is clearly failing. The difference is they don’t let people just openly use drugs on the streets, don’t allow theft, and don’t tolerate anarchy like we do.
They tend to spend their money on the social safety net and provide behavioral and physical health care to all people, which is why they don't have a lot of the same issues we do. Crime is up everywhere in this country.
We jail tons of people in the US and its gotten us absolutely nothing.
I'd love to see some actual data on this.
> No other country allows people to just sit on the sidewalk and smoke meth and shoot heroin and break into cars and shoplift to support their habit.
No other country puts addiction treatment behind a huge financial wall either. America is broken and that's just a symptom of it.
> It’s all woke virtue signaling
Just as an aside, people who use 'woke' and 'virtue signal' really discredit themselves by using those terms. It telephones the reality that you probably consume a lot of conservative 'sky-is-falling' media that is designed to make you scared and reactionary.
> Sadly it’s the drug addicts and mentally ill who suffer since they are just constantly let to spiral further downward
Is your thought that being locked in a jail is somehow better for them? You don't need to pretend that you actually care what happens to them.
As far as whether people should be allowed to rot on the streets, stealing from local businesses to feed their drug addiction, and being sexually assaulted by their dealer - there are better alternatives. Behind bars is one option, Lanterman-Petris-Short conservatorship[3] (not the Britney Spears type) is another.
1. https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/22/us/native-americans-land-ackn... 2. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/11/against-la... 3. https://calmatters.org/justice/2021/07/britney-spears-conser...
Of course its a thing. It discredits you because its a term conservatives have been trained to use when they don't like a concept or don't want to think about a new concept. Your land acknowledgement example is actually great. It's intellectually weak to claim that everyone who does land acknowledgements is just virtue signaling. It implies that you have, or generally all conservatives have, insight into the motivations of hundreds of thousands of people. Here is the definition of 'virtue signaling'
"the action or practice of publicly expressing opinions or sentiments intended to demonstrate one's good character or the moral correctness of one's position on a particular issue."
The practice might not be particularly useful, or even an empty gesture, but that doesn't make it virtue signaling. Virtue signals are done for your own benefit. You can project onto folks doing land acknowledgements but you to write them all off as virtue signaling is really just sad. You should get to know some tribal members, because they do it too. I've been to many meetings where tribal members lead the land acknowledgement. Are they just virtue signaling too?
> As far as whether people should be allowed to rot on the streets, stealing from local businesses to feed their drug addiction, and being sexually assaulted by their dealer - there are better alternatives. Behind bars is one option, Lanterman-Petris-Short conservatorship[3] (not the Britney Spears type) is another.
As with all things, solutions to problems are easy to find when you aren't restricted by reality. The War on Drugs didn't work for the first 60 years, I don't know why you think it'd work now. I also think you are greatly over estimating how willing judges anywhere are to institutionalize people, especially when they are just drug addicts.
The only real solution to the problem is to have single-payer health care and massively increasing spending on mental and behavioral health by the federal government. Unfortunately with the republican party more or less in control, I don't think we will see an increase in any spending that helps Americans any time soon.
You sound like a Scientologist talking about "SPs" or suppressive persons. You've been brainwashed to ignore anything that doesn't reinforce your worldview.
I used virtue signaling first and I'm not conservative--I have never voted for anything but democrats my entire life. Stop with the nonsense please--this type of nonsense is harming social discourse. There is no reason that associating with red/blue should predict every other political view you have--people need to judge policies individually.
If you want to know more about restorative justice in practice, New Zealand and Australia are good examples.
If you don’t live in SF, it’s hard to understand why you support Chesa Boudin.
No, it is not low cost for people who bear the brunt of crime on the daily.
> Here is the kicker: SF residents also want more restorative justice (based on their official votes).
He won by a 1.6% margin. A narrow victory is a victory yes, but recalls and impeachments are a part of democracy - and he will be recalled no matter how narrow the margins are.
Like the one you made when you moved to California to exploit the job market and vote in a bunch of BS that you will never experience since you will most likely move back to where you originated from once you make enough money to escape the rat race? Yeah I can generalize, too.