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After police used Flock cameras to accuse a Denver woman of theft, she had to prove her own innocence (coloradosun.com)
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[–] 3 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I do agree on principle but somewhere in the back of my brain it's going "what about repeat violent offenders." But I feel like any solution I can come up with could be pretty easily used by the state as a force of marginalization anyway. So back at square one.

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  • [–] 7 points 10 months ago

    Even when it's repeat violent offenders - why would you want to prevent them from getting jobs? What do you think will happen if you release them from prison, once they finish serving their sentence, and they can't get jobs?

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago*

    That's good. These ideas of focusing on the potential career criminals are deeply ingrained in our culture, but when we challenge the potential outcomes we can resist giving the government and businesses more power to hurt innocent people

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    "what about repeat violent offenders."

    This is conservative paranoia propaganda at work. People who are violent offenders become repeat violent offenders because of the system that we have in place not in spite of it. And the percentage of violent offenders in our prison system is severely out of proportion to those of the nonviolent variety who make up the bulk of our inmate population.

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