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I find your priorities peculiar. This guys so called "waste of valuable city resources" was very well spent. He unconvered how enormous resources are being spen
by jernfrost 13y ago
I find your priorities peculiar. This guys so called "waste of valuable city resources" was very well spent. He unconvered how enormous resources are being spent prosecuting and pestering people who are not really criminals and the cruelty of the system. You really think exposing this and getting attention brought to this problem is not worth the resources of processing one guy for spraying grafitti?
- dannypgh 13y agoSomething has to be obscured for it to be "uncovered" -- the unfairness and disparities in the justice system is common knowledge to anyone who has had to live it (and that's a lot of us), to anyone who has bothered to ask someone who has lived it about it, or to anyone who has looked into any sort of comprehensive scholarly analysis of it. I have "been through the system" and it wasn't by choice, nor did it result in any charges being filed. Some people view that as luck, but given how common that outcome is, the real injustice is that I was ever arrested to begin with. I'm not complaining about the author's use of public resources - the public resources were wasted by the police, not the author. But I don't think we should pretend that the author discovered anything new. I do think his decisions were a little reckless - people can learn about the justice system without exposing themselves to it first-hand, and exposing yourself to it can be quite dangerous. Sure it's less dangerous if you're white, but police kill white people under suspicious circumstances too.