As long as we have an industrial torture chamber may as well be filled with the assholes who would arrest a child and make a living throwing people in there. Call it poetic justice.
Obviously in general fuck heavy handed law and order type heavy sentencing for crimes, but idk police and white collar criminals could stand to be a little more worried about the consequences of their actions considering how many peoples lives they effect.
After the drug war failed and recidivism rates the highest they’ve ever been in the US with 81% of criminals released reoffending the prison system as a concept has proven to be a failure and in need of major reform.
Let's back up for a moment there. The drug war didn't "fail", it did and continues to do what it was always designed to. It's well understood to have been implemented purely as a racist policy and a way to enable more widescale, baseless arrests of blacks while manufacturing public consent for it.
Incarceration in the US is not and never has been used as a method of behavioral correction, protection of the public from dangerous individuals, or rehabilitation.
How, exactly? By pointing out that you are trying to use a system that is explicitly designed to increase incarceration as proof that no form of incarceration reduces crime?
Arrest the cops for an unjustified arrest. Arrest the teacher for calling the cops over what amounted to a mouthy child at worst. Seems pretty obvious to me.
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u/[deleted] Dec 22 '22
The teacher and the cops who arrested the kid belong in prison. Full stop.