Computer technology got us the lowest murder rate in a century.

What, you can't just impute causation to whatever has a correlation?

Studied directly, the war on drugs has been an epic disaster, and crime fell entirely independent of it.

The murder rate fell despite the war on drugs funneling trillions to gangs and cartels, making them more powerful than ever.

The process itself is a punishment.

You shouldn't have all the consequences associated with an arrest (especially when talking about pretrial detention) for clear cut self defense. Your view is complete bullshit: Let someone beat you to death, or spend years in jail fighting a murder charge.

Custom fitted to his specifications, to what he thinks looks good.

Tailors will be happy to cut you an ill fitting suit if you insist that's what you want.

With DeSantis it's intentional. But remember Trump is a genuine moron, I don't doubt that delusional cheeto really thinks he looks fantastic caked in bronzer and stuffed into an ill fitting suit topped by the world's most expensive combover.

With the whole "white men bad" schtick being absolute poison to everyone but a small fringe of progressives, it's hard to blame them.

Old white man Bernie Sanders should have been president, but go on keep carrying water for the same people who buried him: Those amplifying divisive racist views like yours on the left to keep anyone with progressive economic views from getting anywhere near power. Nothing like racial resentment to make sure class consciousness doesn't gain a foothold.

The alternative to bad isn't always good; Zeldin would have fucked up not just Manhattan even worse than Bragg, but been a plague on the entire state.

Did disabling IP capture also disable preventing the same IP from taking the survey over and over?

They're most likely to maintain housing and employment when enrolled in heroin maintenance programs. No other program is more successful in that regard, especially not compelled treatment (which isn't what Portugal does), which has a success rate in the 1% or less range.

> Like how they do it in Portugal.

That's not how it works in Portugal. They're required to undergo an evaluation but enrolling in treatment is optional.

Because compelled treatment is useless and nothing but a waste of money with little benefit over jail.

Compelled treatment is useless. The best approach from a fiscal perspective and external harm perspective is to provide their substance of choice until they're ready to quit. This eliminates property crime, reduces other crimes committed, dramatically reduces ODs, and results in them being far more likely to maintain housing and employment, in addition to defunding gangs and cartels.

You don't become physically addicted immediately, the majority of addicts did not start with prescriptions issued directly to them, and the vast majority of those prescribed opiates do not go on to get addicted. Pretending the exclusive cause of opioid addiction is people getting them directly from their doctor and accidentally getting addicted is profoundly inaccurate and a massive disservice to addicts since failing to understand causes won't result in good solutions. And indeed it's next to impossible to get them from doctors now, has been for years, and the collateral damage from this has been extreme. You have a sharp rise in pain related suicides and pain patients ODing on street drugs just trying to get relief their doctors won't provide, all because the CDC let the DEA run amok with no understanding of appropriate vs inappropriate prescribing.

Plenty of people know on some level what's going to happen when they continuously use again shortly after using. I certainly did. While there's certainly people who don't understand it, many are under no illusions about what will happen if you start using more often than once every week or two.

I spent a decade in active addiction. During that time I knew dozens of other addicts. Not one got addicted in the way you claim they all do. They either bought the pills illegally or were scamming doctors with fake paperwork or deliberately searching out pill mills to get prescriptions no legit doctor would give because they were already serious substance abusers and wanted a cheaper source.

>Instead, DOC Commissioner Louis Molina says, letters from relatives and drawings from children should be scanned by a third-party vendor paid by the City, and then viewed by their recipients on a tablet issued by the vendor.

This is why it's fair to call the entire prison system for profit even though only a small number of facilities are entirely privately operated. See also: phone contracts, commissary contracts, renting of labor, etc.

We'd be much better off if they were legalized. Users enrolled in maintenance programs don't need to commit property crimes as the drugs are provided for the pennies per dose they cost the state, they commit fewer other crimes, and are more likely to maintain housing and employment. ODs are also primarily from unknown dosages of unknown fent analogs.

A large portion of the harm you're attributing to those substances arises because of prohibition. While there's certainly substantial intrinsic harms, these are maximized by keeping them illegal, and a properly regulated system of legalization would minimize them in addition to eliminating all the harm caused exclusively by prohibition (like property crime for drug money).

For these substances, it's a complete strawman to think legalization means OTC sales on every corner, nobody serious is proposing that model, but it does mean a system of being able to acquire them in a medicalized setting.

For some reason all these bills to legalize psychedelics are drawing some ridiculous distinction with "natural medicine". Where we should only be allowed to have the 'natural medicine' of psychedelics that occur in nature. It's entirely unjustified and arbitrary to exclude LSD, but all the bills in other states like this have done it for some reason.

You go girl, proving a woman governor in NY can be every bit as much a corporate owned corrupt sellout as a man, fucking the people every bit as hard!

Even if it was true... none of these programs are aimed at making serious reductions in fare evading by homeless/mentally ill nuts. They'll just go to a different entrance, or get a ticket they won't pay, or worst case scenario a brief trip to get their id verified at the station if they're not carrying one, and will go straight back to fare evading because they don't care and there's never a high enough coverage rate except a few entrances to a few stations in tourist heavy areas to make getting caught something frequent enough to be a deterrent for them.

Hmmm... the reforms conservatives screamed about as driving crime up certainly haven't gone anywhere... Alvin Bragg hasn't gone anywhere... almost like the fact that crime was up regardless of whether an area had reforms was actually, as all logic suggested, indicative that the reforms weren't to blame for the larger statistical trends.

I'm just shocked reactionary far right propaganda and those repeating it weren't portraying an accurate picture of the causes of the crime increase or proposing solutions aimed at actually addressing it rather than ensuring the poor had their lives destroyed for the exact same crimes everyone else could just post bail/have parents post bail because they didn't understand what bail was, how sentenced worked, and what the world was like before reform.

Given how people like to define "unbiased", it's going to wind up needing to be explicitly targeted to enforce equity... because thanks to centuries of deliberate oppression we simply don't have a country where there's no actual, empirical differences between demographics, and the people who pass laws like this believe that's solved by simply pretending they don't exist and enforcing equal outcomes by e.g. simply adding or subtracting points from scores to make all groups equal.

Because that's something that can be done now. Why spend decades doing the actual hard work of building an equitable society when you can prove how virtuous you right now by simply rigging the numbers?

It would be trivial to design phones such that you could replace the fingerprint sensor only if the phone is reset, thus destroying the data. And the complexity and such an attack would mean little to no impact on resale of stolen devices. But then, security isn't the first priority with this policy, locking out independent repair shops is.

Just how many "last pay phones" are there? I feel like I've seen this same headline quite a few times now.

"We can torture animals however we want so long as they're food animals."

No, being raised for food doesn't confer an inherent right to torture.

It's like suggesting it would be ok to beat death row inmates every day, because we're going to kill them anyway.

Torture and killing for a specific purpose are not ethically the same.

They might if e.g. shelters didn't suck so much.

Sounds like they're missing out on good candidates desperate for a job by having a blanket ban on criminal records instead of only barring those whose specific offense provides a particular reason to think they're unsuitable for the job.

(In more civilized countries, records are sealed and employers submit a potential employees name to the police, who respond with a simple yes/no on whether they have an offense that disqualifies them from that specific job-- i.e. a sex offender wouldn't be allowed to work with kids or vulnerable adults, but would be able to get most other jobs, and a white collar fraudster would be able to work with kids, but not be allowed to work at a bank)

> but the streets are still swarmed because you’re not allowed to do drugs in these houses.

Get rid of this stupid fucking policy, that's one thing that can be done. It's ass-backwards to try to force someone with a drug problem to quit first, then be able to stabilize their life. A stable life is a key factor for being able to get off drugs, and Housing First programs that provide housing regardless of sobriety have been far more effective than enforced sobriety.

Qualified immunity is only for civil lawsuits. There is no legal immunity, just corrupt traditions and union contracts treated like law.