Anita Chabria: No, the criminal justice reform movement isn't dead. But it may need to grow up
Would you like to see more Black and Latino men locked up in prison?
How about a shoutout for giving cops more leeway to use force as they see fit, without repercussions?
What about that homeless crisis — why not build really big jails and prisons and clean our sidewalks by arresting our way out of the problem?
If you are like the majority of Californians, those ideas are ludicrous and offensive, and yet only a few years ago, they were how the business of justice was conducted.
So no, progressive criminal justice reform is not dead. San Francisco voters their district attorney, Chesa Boudin. But the pendulum hasn't swung back to the days of ignoring, or even celebrating, mass incarceration, systemic racism and the criminalization of
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