The United States has the largest prison population in the world, and the highest per-capita incarceration rate.[3][4][5] In 2018 in the US, there were 698 people incarcerated per 100,000;[6] this includes the incarceration rate for adults or people tried as adults.
But it seems like it's a tight race between Oklahoma, Louisiana, and Mississippi who can put the most people behind bars.
These states got real good at realizing you could cook up bullshit charges against a black man and get free prison labor to replace the slave labor they had just lost
One in five prisoners in the US have, or have had, COVID.
There are people in St. Louis who have been in prison for over a year now despite only having been charged with a crime, because the courts in Missouri have ground to an almost complete stop, and cash bail is a cruel practice that is only an added punishment to those already marginalized by the system.
But it seems like it's a tight race between Oklahoma, Louisiana, and Mississippi who can put the most people behind bars.
These states got real good at realizing you could cook up bullshit charges against a black man and get free prison labor to replace the slave labor they had just lost
Nice set of incentives there
It's still slave labor. The 13th is very specific about saying that slavery is still legal as punishment for a crime. It's not even a loophole it's just there in the text.
But it seems like it's a tight race between Oklahoma, Louisiana, and Mississippi who can put the most people behind bars.
These states got real good at realizing you could cook up bullshit charges against a black man and get free prison labor to replace the slave labor they had just lost
Nice set of incentives there
It's still slave labor. The 13th is very specific about saying that slavery is still legal as punishment for a crime. It's not even a loophole it's just there in the text.
But it seems like it's a tight race between Oklahoma, Louisiana, and Mississippi who can put the most people behind bars.
These states got real good at realizing you could cook up bullshit charges against a black man and get free prison labor to replace the slave labor they had just lost
Nice set of incentives there
It's still slave labor. The 13th is very specific about saying that slavery is still legal as punishment for a crime. It's not even a loophole it's just there in the text.
Never meant to imply it was anything but
I didn't mean that, no. It's just worth saying specifically because what the fuck, America.
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But it seems like it's a tight race between Oklahoma, Louisiana, and Mississippi who can put the most people behind bars.
The prison industrial complex giving the military industrial complex a run for its money.
America is actually much better at manufacturing new prisoners than it is wars. Lack of proxy wars to sell arms to has been a huge bugaboo for the military industrial complex since '91, but year over year declining crime rates since the 80's hasn't stopped the prison industry.
But it seems like it's a tight race between Oklahoma, Louisiana, and Mississippi who can put the most people behind bars.
These states got real good at realizing you could cook up bullshit charges against a black man and get free prison labor to replace the slave labor they had just lost
Nice set of incentives there
It's still slave labor. The 13th is very specific about saying that slavery is still legal as punishment for a crime. It's not even a loophole it's just there in the text.
No, no, no,
See, they pay them $0.10/hour so it's not actually slavery!
It's not even dollars, it's usually functional scrip. The only place they can spend it is in a store or catalog provided by the prison and they might not get to keep their balance (or even purchases) after release.
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It's not even dollars, it's usually functional scrip. The only place they can spend it is in a store or catalog provided by the prison and they might not get to keep their balance (or even purchases) after release.
And they make their real profit on the families putting money on their commissary accounts. Essentially if I’m putting money on a family members books. To put 25 bucks on their books jailatm charges me a 3 dollar processing fee. That 25 bucks can buy a 15 minute phone call for 4 dollars, or send an email for 50 cents. Or pay 100% markup for food or entertainment items.
But it seems like it's a tight race between Oklahoma, Louisiana, and Mississippi who can put the most people behind bars.
These states got real good at realizing you could cook up bullshit charges against a black man and get free prison labor to replace the slave labor they had just lost
Nice set of incentives there
It's still slave labor. The 13th is very specific about saying that slavery is still legal as punishment for a crime. It's not even a loophole it's just there in the text.
Never meant to imply it was anything but
I didn't mean that, no. It's just worth saying specifically because what the fuck, America.
Column: Let’s wait before turning slain 13-year-old Adam Toledo into a martyr
It’s too early to say with confidence just what happened in a Little Village neighborhood alley at 2:38 a.m. March 29, when police shot and killed Adam Toledo.
That said, however, it’s not too early to stop romanticizing and infantilizing 13-year-olds.
Never too early to start character assassination of literal children to defend extrajudicial murder, though.
Like... that's the underlying problem, isn't it? People are willing to shrug and excuse extrajudicial killings by police officers if someone has ever committed a crime in their life! No! Suspected and even convicted criminals are still goddamn human beings, ostensibly with civil rights that should not be violated!
It reads like satire. It has to be fake, this man cannot actually exist.
"Eric Zorn is an op-ed columnist for the Chicago Tribune with a liberal/progressive bent who specializes in local news and politics. He’s married with three adult children, lives on the Northwest Side of Chicago and is a regular panelist on "The Mincing Rascals," an award-winning news-talk podcast. He's also a pretty good square-dance fiddler."
I mean I'm still not sure, if it wasn't for the links he included it could well have been a 'modest proposal' - but if he is real, what better example of the Overton window is there?
That said, I can definitely believe he is into square dancing.
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Column: Let’s wait before turning slain 13-year-old Adam Toledo into a martyr
It’s too early to say with confidence just what happened in a Little Village neighborhood alley at 2:38 a.m. March 29, when police shot and killed Adam Toledo.
That said, however, it’s not too early to stop romanticizing and infantilizing 13-year-olds.
Oh, god, I think I found the worst take
They are 13 years old!
Sounds like a return to old-school Jewish values. I doubt he meant it that way.
Shut up, Mr. Burton! You were not brought upon this world to get it!
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The video in this tweet is a tame cut of the video. Description below as well:
Cops pepper sprayed, beat, and handcuffed army LT Nazario while in uniform. And then let him go.
LT Nazario: “I’m honestly afraid to get out of the car.”
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Holy fucking fuckity fuck. A lieutenant Army fucking medic. IN FUCKING UNIFORM.
Maybe this will do something to finally pierce some of that thickheaded stupidity Right-wing voters have wrapped around cops for protection.
Could something like this actually go to the Federal level, seeing as the Army is a Federal force and these cops clearly assaulted this man for no reason?
If anything, I expect cops would hate a black man in the military more than just about anything in the world. It's a person they want to subjugate in the role they constantly pretend to be in.
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Holy fucking fuckity fuck. A lieutenant Army fucking medic. IN FUCKING UNIFORM.
Maybe this will do something to finally pierce some of that thickheaded stupidity Right-wing voters have wrapped around cops for protection.
Could something like this actually go to the Federal level, seeing as the Army is a Federal force and these cops clearly assaulted this man for no reason?
Police have beaten and even killed military in and out of uniform before, the Republicans have already shown which side they're on. They only care about soldiers when they're far away killing brown people, the second they survive long enough to come home most of their promised benefits never materialize and the one that kind of does is a lifelong bureaucratic battle to maintain at minimal standards.
With the Nazario assault, it needs to be restated, this wasn't hidden camera footage.
That they're willing to do this shit WHILE WEARING FUNCTIONING BODYCAMS, means they're absolutely confident that they'll get away with whatever they're doing. That this kind of thing is tolerable behaviour.
Meaning, when they've chosen to NOT wear their bodycams, or their cams are "malfunctioning", they can't be trusted to be doing anything non-heinous, and should get zero benefit of the doubt.
Something I'm wondering about is how.many of these incidents happen in jurisdictions where the police chief is elected vs appointed. That's been a real issue of debate here in Austin
Reading up the details, the entire situation is so fucked up:
1. Police claimed they pulled him over because he had no fear license plate. Lawyers say this isn't true. So they had no reason to covering him as soon as they could walk up and see.
2. They claim the lt was trying to evade them by pulling into a well lit gas station, rather than pulling over right away. Black people have every reason to ensure their actions are well lit.
3. Police officer uses the phrase "fixing to ride the lighting", a phrase used to describe the execution of a black man in "The green mile."
4. One officer demands he get out of the car while the other demands he keep his hands up. It's literally impossible to do both.
2. They claim the lt was trying to evade them by pulling into a well lit gas station, rather than pulling over right away. Black people have every reason to ensure their actions are well lit.
And cops are entirely aware that that's not exactly an unheard-of thing when pulling someone over at night, specifically because of stuff like this. They knew exactly what was going on there.
Of course, given how amped up they were at the well-lit stop in front of cameras and witnesses, I wouldn't be surprised if they were pissed that they couldn't just quietly execute someone out of sight.
Reading up the details, the entire situation is so fucked up:
1. Police claimed they pulled him over because he had no fear license plate. Lawyers say this isn't true. So they had no reason to covering him as soon as they could walk up and see.
2. They claim the lt was trying to evade them by pulling into a well lit gas station, rather than pulling over right away. Black people have every reason to ensure their actions are well lit.
3. Police officer uses the phrase "fixing to ride the lighting", a phrase used to describe the execution of a black man in "The green mile."
4. One officer demands he get out of the car while the other demands he keep his hands up. It's literally impossible to do both.
And as we saw with the Philando Castile shooting, the default should ALWAYS be the latter. Following instructions that could make the police jumpy, rather than angry, is the best way to avoid getting shot. Making any motion that could be percieved to be a threat, like unhooking a seatbelt, turning off the ignition, or reaching for the wallet they literally just demanded you do, gives them "justification" due to "fear for their life".
Though making them angry is likely to see you get beaten due to the "disrespect" of not immediately following their contradictory instruction, so it's not like there's a good option. Just a (hopefully) less lethal one.
How can you possibly manage to both keep your hands up and leave the car? Open the door with your feet?
The closest is placing both hands out of the window and using your left hand to open the door from the outside
But doing anything weird like that is going to look "dangerous" to twitchy cops.
I wonder if brutal cops co-ordinate "impossible requests" so they have an excuse to shoot or beat black people. If I was black I'd have a dashboard cam running all the time.
How can you possibly manage to both keep your hands up and leave the car? Open the door with your feet?
The closest is placing both hands out of the window and using your left hand to open the door from the outside
But doing anything weird like that is going to look "dangerous" to twitchy cops.
I wonder if brutal cops co-ordinate "impossible requests" so they have an excuse to shoot or beat black people. If I was black I'd have a dashboard cam running all the time.
These officers knew they were being filmed while engaging in this behavior. They didn't cover up or turn off their body cameras. Because they felt nothing they were doing was egregious or would see them facing any sort of repercussions.
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1.3% even if you only count adults, too.
And 4% among black Oklahomans
https://okpolicy.org/accepting-our-highest-in-the-world-incarceration-rate-means-believing-that-oklahomans-are-the-worst-people/
Just, wow.
But it seems like it's a tight race between Oklahoma, Louisiana, and Mississippi who can put the most people behind bars.
We’ve always been the most brutal capitalists
These states got real good at realizing you could cook up bullshit charges against a black man and get free prison labor to replace the slave labor they had just lost
Nice set of incentives there
There are people in St. Louis who have been in prison for over a year now despite only having been charged with a crime, because the courts in Missouri have ground to an almost complete stop, and cash bail is a cruel practice that is only an added punishment to those already marginalized by the system.
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It's still slave labor. The 13th is very specific about saying that slavery is still legal as punishment for a crime. It's not even a loophole it's just there in the text.
Never meant to imply it was anything but
I didn't mean that, no. It's just worth saying specifically because what the fuck, America.
America is actually much better at manufacturing new prisoners than it is wars. Lack of proxy wars to sell arms to has been a huge bugaboo for the military industrial complex since '91, but year over year declining crime rates since the 80's hasn't stopped the prison industry.
If only we could get them to fight each other....
No, no, no,
See, they pay them $0.10/hour so it's not actually slavery!
And they make their real profit on the families putting money on their commissary accounts. Essentially if I’m putting money on a family members books. To put 25 bucks on their books jailatm charges me a 3 dollar processing fee. That 25 bucks can buy a 15 minute phone call for 4 dollars, or send an email for 50 cents. Or pay 100% markup for food or entertainment items.
Genocidal White Supremacist Settler Nation!
They are 13 years old!
Like... that's the underlying problem, isn't it? People are willing to shrug and excuse extrajudicial killings by police officers if someone has ever committed a crime in their life! No! Suspected and even convicted criminals are still goddamn human beings, ostensibly with civil rights that should not be violated!
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It reads like satire. It has to be fake, this man cannot actually exist.
In other words, corrupt and racist as fuck.
"Eric Zorn is an op-ed columnist for the Chicago Tribune with a liberal/progressive bent who specializes in local news and politics. He’s married with three adult children, lives on the Northwest Side of Chicago and is a regular panelist on "The Mincing Rascals," an award-winning news-talk podcast. He's also a pretty good square-dance fiddler."
I mean I'm still not sure, if it wasn't for the links he included it could well have been a 'modest proposal' - but if he is real, what better example of the Overton window is there?
That said, I can definitely believe he is into square dancing.
Sounds like a return to old-school Jewish values. I doubt he meant it that way.
Tweet source is a Queens professor, video source is police body cam.
Start contacting your Congressmen and Senators, ESPECIALLY if they are Republican. Pressure them into picking which uniform they respect more because it cannot be both in this situation. Contact information can be found in the links below.
https://www.house.gov/representatives
https://www.senate.gov/senators/senators-contact.htm
Maybe this will do something to finally pierce some of that thickheaded stupidity Right-wing voters have wrapped around cops for protection.
Could something like this actually go to the Federal level, seeing as the Army is a Federal force and these cops clearly assaulted this man for no reason?
I’ll believe it when I see it.
That they're willing to do this shit WHILE WEARING FUNCTIONING BODYCAMS, means they're absolutely confident that they'll get away with whatever they're doing. That this kind of thing is tolerable behaviour.
Meaning, when they've chosen to NOT wear their bodycams, or their cams are "malfunctioning", they can't be trusted to be doing anything non-heinous, and should get zero benefit of the doubt.
Just last week, it was decided to not charge 3 white officers with anything for beating a black police officer who was undercover at a BLM rally.
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The Capitol Riot springs to mind.
And if police turn whistleblower against corrupt or brutal cops, they suddenly find out that miraculously it is possible to fire police (them.)
1. Police claimed they pulled him over because he had no fear license plate. Lawyers say this isn't true. So they had no reason to covering him as soon as they could walk up and see.
2. They claim the lt was trying to evade them by pulling into a well lit gas station, rather than pulling over right away. Black people have every reason to ensure their actions are well lit.
3. Police officer uses the phrase "fixing to ride the lighting", a phrase used to describe the execution of a black man in "The green mile."
4. One officer demands he get out of the car while the other demands he keep his hands up. It's literally impossible to do both.
And cops are entirely aware that that's not exactly an unheard-of thing when pulling someone over at night, specifically because of stuff like this. They knew exactly what was going on there.
Of course, given how amped up they were at the well-lit stop in front of cameras and witnesses, I wouldn't be surprised if they were pissed that they couldn't just quietly execute someone out of sight.
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And as we saw with the Philando Castile shooting, the default should ALWAYS be the latter. Following instructions that could make the police jumpy, rather than angry, is the best way to avoid getting shot. Making any motion that could be percieved to be a threat, like unhooking a seatbelt, turning off the ignition, or reaching for the wallet they literally just demanded you do, gives them "justification" due to "fear for their life".
Though making them angry is likely to see you get beaten due to the "disrespect" of not immediately following their contradictory instruction, so it's not like there's a good option. Just a (hopefully) less lethal one.
The closest is placing both hands out of the window and using your left hand to open the door from the outside
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But doing anything weird like that is going to look "dangerous" to twitchy cops.
I wonder if brutal cops co-ordinate "impossible requests" so they have an excuse to shoot or beat black people. If I was black I'd have a dashboard cam running all the time.
Which won't work if it's locked. Which it was.
These officers knew they were being filmed while engaging in this behavior. They didn't cover up or turn off their body cameras. Because they felt nothing they were doing was egregious or would see them facing any sort of repercussions.
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