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Los Angeles jails are a death trap that have claimed 37 lives this year. It's been over four years since the LA Board of Supervisors committed to closing Men’s Central Jail. How many more people have to lose their lives before they take concrete action?

But the idea here is important I know most of us think that NOBODY will ever arrest ME or anyone that I care about But that is NOT true We arrest and incarcerate a MILLION people or more annually, who can't afford bail www.law.upenn.edu/live/files/6...

3. In this country, we are supposed to believe that people are innocent until proven guilty Heck, I did a whole episode of my podcast on this one (back when I used to host a podcast) decarcerationnation.com/86-tracey-me...

2. There is NO public safety difference between cash bail and "cashless bail" Yup, you hear a lot of nonsense, but most studies suggest that reform is either POSITIVE or had no impact on public safety This one is from my friend @amescg.bsky.social www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...

Okay, so before we move on, two critical points so far * Pretrial incarceration CAUSES more crime than cash bail PREVENTS * You evaluate policies against each other, not against themselves

More evidence And remember, the important question is NOT the simple one (did people commit crimes upon pretrial release), the IMPORTANT question is DID MORE PEOPLE COMMIT MORE CRIMES AFTER REFORM THAN THEY DID BEFORE chansman.github.io/GHF_Bail.pdf

Because this is such an underdiscussed part of the bail debate and so important, I am going to include more studies concluding that pretrial incarceration INCREASES CRIME Here is another study www.law.upenn.edu/live/files/6...

1. Pretrial incarceration generates CRIME....it generates MORE crime than bail prevents There are two parts of this discussion: A) How BAIL is handled, and B) What happens when you detain people pretrial YOU HAVE TO COMPARE BOTH www.brookings.edu/articles/a-b...

Thread 🧵 Bail Reform Trump went on another rant about "cashless bail" yesterday....so let me remind you why he is WRONG about this topic 1/

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