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To quote investigative journalist Christian Parenti’s remarks on criminal justice reform in his book Lockdown America, what we really need most of all is “less.”Īlso known as reparative or transformative justice, these models represent an alternative to courts and jails. That means that wide-scale decriminalization will need to come with economic programs and community projects. Violent offenses count for a fraction of the 11 to 14 million arrests every year, and yet there is no real conversation about what constitutes a crime and what permits society to put a person in chains and a cage. Decriminalization doesn’t work on its own: The cannabis trade that used to employ poor Blacks, Latinos, indigenous and poor whites in its distribution is now starting to be monopolized by already-rich landowners.

What is considered criminal is something too often debated only in critical criminology seminars, and too rarely in the mainstream.

The decriminalization of almost every nonviolent crime.

While police forces have benefited from military-grade weapons and equipment, some of the most violent neighborhoods have found success through peace rather than war. There are also feminist models that specifically organize patrols of local women, who reduce everything from cat-calling and partner violence to gang murders in places like Brooklyn. Stop believing that police are heroes because they are the only ones willing to get in the way of knives or guns - so are the members of groups like Cure Violence, who were the subject of the 2012 documentary The Interrupters.

This is real and it exists in cities from Detroit to Los Angeles. Unarmed but trained people, often formerly violent offenders themselves, patrolling their neighborhoods to curb violence right where it starts. Unarmed mediation and intervention teams.

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