Deanocracy

Deanocracy t1_j84bxtn wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in All-time greatest r/WashingtonDC thread by AuthorityRespecter

Oh well. It doesnt happen.

Less than 4% of the US State prison population is in for possession as their greatest crime.

So… lets do some logic.

Possession… probably not weed? More likely a harder substance.

Which beibgs up the next point.. when 90+% of all sentences are the result of a plea you can look at that 4% as a remainder from more serious charges.

Ie found with drugs and a weapon. Plead to drug charge but got time because they should as a result of the weapon (or assault or robbery etc)

So anyways.. not too idiotic of a thing to know.

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Deanocracy t1_j6mzmm0 wrote

Reply to comment by resdivinae in McPherson Square homeless camp to be cleared two months early, NPS says by Ruze42

Yeah… its wrongly tied to Reagan when in reality it was a large progressive movement and a push to medications as the new wonder drug that would fix it.

“The belief then was widespread that the same scientific researchers who had conjured up antibiotics and vaccines during the outburst of medical discovery in the 50's and 60's had also developed penicillins to cure psychoses and thus revolutionize the treatment of the mentally ill.”

https://www.nytimes.com/1984/10/30/science/how-release-of-mental-patients-began.html

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