Let me tell you what the news is not reporting

 

Let me tell you what the news is not reporting⁣

If you were to look in almost any news publication in the past year, they’d have you believing that murder rates are rising across the country and that to fix that, we need to invest MORE money in police and in prisons.

They would have you believe that policies aimed at harm reduction by getting rid of sentencing on low-level crimes are what’s causing this ‘lawlessness’.

That’s not true.⁣

First of all, murder rates were down, WAY down, in many large cities across the country in 2021. In Boston, they were down 26%. In St. Louis, they were down 25%. In Miami, they were down 15%. In Seattle, they were down 22%.

Second of all, a perceived increase in crime is EXACTLY what our opponents use to fuel a frenzy of fear to invest more money in a system that endangers the lives of poor, working class people — especially Black and brown people.

Instead of addressing the root causes of injustice and harm, their solutions are to increase funding for police officers, invest in opening new jails and prisons, and fuel the ongoing crisis that is mass incarceration.

Police won’t be able to solve the crimes we need to be solved — like murders. In fact, the rate of them solving these crimes are HORRIBLE.

It’s heartbreaking. We see this pattern over, and over, and over. As I’ve said before — it causes more arrests, more incarceration, more poverty, more despair, which leads to more drug use, which leads to a vicious cycle of mass incarceration that is inescapable.

We at Real Justice have to put a stop to this. And the good news is, the work we have done to combat this horrific harm has been working.

In the places where we have already elected good DA’s, we are succeeding in enormous ways. It’s not always perfect. But it’s progress.

Those DA’s are prosecuting violent cops who never would’ve faced accountability of any kind without those DA’s in office.

They are freeing the innocent, mostly Black men who have been wrongfully imprisoned.

They are overhauling what true public safety actually means in their cities.

And they are working hard to undo policies that contribute to mass incarceration.

We have big plans for this work in 2022. We are helping lay the groundwork for future wins, but we are also defending the progress we’ve made. District by district. City by city. All across the country.

We can’t do it without you. Please, I’m asking if you’ll make your best gift to Real Justice, to make sure we can hold our opponents accountable and elect justice champions who understand the root causes of crime and are doing everything they can to transform what justice looks like in this country.

Love and appreciate you,

Shaun

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