Jun 24
Source
Slavery…
Nov 22, 2025
I’m gonna list some stupid ass drug possession cases I’ve done just to let you guys know where your tax dollars are going.
- Guy in a van that’s not his. Van has a locked safe in the back and the guy doesn’t have the key. Officer breaks the safe open and finds drugs. Officer neglects to note whose car it was when he ran it or write down anything the guy says about whose car it is. Prosecutor persisted in the felony charge all the way to higher court. Got a “not guilty” on that one.
- Girl in a car that’s not hers. Car is pulled over, she rummages around to find registration. In the process, she moves a bag. Officer decides this is her bag, searches it, finds a baggie corner with drug residue. At trial, officer cannot remember what type of bag it was (men’s? Women’s? Backpack? Purse?) or what else was in it. Again, no offer from the prosecutor to reduce it. Not guilty.
- Guy who got pulled over for speeding. Police found pill bottle in the car with the label gone. Guy belatedly remembers that time that he got his wisdom teeth out and spilled water on the pill bottle. Ironically, he only took like two of the painkillers because he didn’t really need them and they proceeded to end up in his car somehow and rot. Dismissed at preliminary hearing.
- Vicodin found in woman’s car. “That’s my mom’s Vicodin,” she says to police. Her mom is not there. Because she knew it was there and had dominion and control over it, she is legally guilty of possession. Guilty plea; 100 hours community service and completely unnecessary drug treatment class that is mandatory.
- Alleged sale of Adderall. Police do a “controlled buy.” They fail to photograph the money or record the amount. They fail to search their buyer before the transaction. They record the license plate of the selling vehicle as being from two different states. They do not photograph the pills. They do not even count the pills, apparently, or they just steal drugs: lab certificate says “30 pills sent to lab” and the next line reads “28 pills received by lab.” And then the alleged audio of this was lost in a “computer error.” Prosecutor dropped the case from sheer humiliation.
- Too many cases to count where drugs are just out in plain sight and everyone is charged with constructive possession.
- Too many cases to count where police meticulously search a trash filled car to come up with an empty fragment of a straw or corner of a baggie with residue because in our state that counts as real possession.
Everyone go congratulate police officers on being local heroes and keeping us safe from the deadly specter of drugs!!
Mar 23
"I would have hidden Anne Frank from the Nazis!" "I would have supported the Civil Rights Movement!" an uncomfortably high number of you would have cheered on a lynching if you thought that the victim was guilty of a bad enough crime be so fucking for real
Jul 15
"Why were such glaring research flaws ignored for so long by experts? For example, Washington Post columnist Krauthammer, who raised the journalistic hue and cry, is a graduate of Harvard Medical School, and I wonder that he did not consider these dramatic scientific shortcomings before suggesting that the children in question should not have been born.
In 1989, the British medical journal The Lancet showed how papers reporting that cocaine harmed babies' behavior were more likely to be accepted for publication than those showing no harm, even when the latter described better-designed studies. In 1992, a Journal of the American Medical Association editorial condemned the "rush to judgment" about cocaine's long-term effects on children, calling the evidence "far too slim".
But the harm has been done. The imaginary crack baby epidemic remains real in the minds of most Americans, providing yet another exemplar of African-American "bad mothering." In 1989, the Los Angeles Times wrote of how "Parents Who Can't Say 'No' Are Creating a Generation of Misery"; The Washington Post told us "For Pregnant Addict, Crack Comes First"; and a New York Times headline showcased an awkward amalgam of sympathy and cost consciousness: "Crack's Tiniest, Costliest Victims."
The myth of the crack baby also helped to fuel criminal prosecutions against pregnant drug abusers, three-fourths of which have been filed against women of color."
Chapter 8- Medical Apartheid, Harriet A. Washington
Apr 15
May 23, 2025
Based on the evidence currently available to you, do you feel confident BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT as to whether Luigi Mangione killed Brian Thompson (UHC CEO)?
I am confident that he did it– NO DOUBT AT ALL
I am confident that he did NOT do it– NO DOUBT AT ALL
I think he did it but I am NOT 100% CONFIDENT– some doubt/uncertainty
I DON'T think he did it but I am NOT 100% CONFIDENT– some doubt/uncertainty
I do not have an opinion/don't know enough about this
Voting ended onMay 30, 2025
In the US, defendants are presumed innocent until they are proven, beyond a reasonable doubt, to be guilty. If a juror isn't completely, 100% convinced that the defendant committed the alleged crime, the juror is supposed to vote "not guilty."
I'm hesitant to post this one because I generally avoid topics speculating on individuals' lives and touchy current events, but it is a good reminder of how the US criminal justice system works. Please be polite in the comments/reblogs.
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Aug 12, 2024
We talk about prison "abolition" and not prison "reform" not because we believe it's possible to create a system where no incarceration is necessary. We say "abolition" because we want to create systems that allow the establishment of a new reparative justice structure, which uses incarceration as little as possible, and which is not a reform of the current incarceration structure, which does not repair or do justice. We do not believe the current structure can be reformed.
Reforming our current incarceration system into a justice system would be like reforming a dog fighting structure into a dog training structure. (And before anyone accuses me of comparing people in prison to dogs - no, I'm not, but I am saying that people who run prisons treat people like dogs.) Dog fighting structures were never designed to train dogs. The people that run them aren't qualified to train dogs for anything but violence (and are incentivized to continue training violence). The incarceration system creates violence and antisocial behavior. It is incentivized to continue doing so. It was never meant to repair social harm.
Prison abolition means, piece by piece, cutting off the supply of bodies to the incarceration structure.
When drug users get medical care instead of being criminalized, prisons are no longer needed to house drug users. When the mentally ill are given medical care instead of being criminalized, prisons are no longer needed to house the mentally ill. When homeless people are given housing instead of being criminalized, prisons are no longer needed to house the homeless. When impoverished people are given welfare and food benefits instead of being criminalized, prisons are no longer needed to house the poor. When youth are given opportunities outside of gangs, prisons have fewer gang members to house. We shrink the system, and we keep shrinking it. Next we create systems to reduce the population of domestic abusers. Next we tackle sexual assault. Every time it shrinks, we look at the remaining population and figure out what population we can tackle next.
That's how prison abolition works.
Feb 1
blizzard study session
there was a blizzard a little bit ago and i took advantage of being stuck inside to study and get some work done.
things i got done:
• juvenile justice notes
• juvenile drugs case study
• intro parole research paper
speaking of studying, do you guys drink energy drinks to study? i don’t always, only when i really need to. typically during finals week like 2 or so. but sometimes they’re just so yummy T-T
