I am a Doctor now

[fat lesbian]

if you know the name of that sociologist id love to read it, me and other local leftists have been trying to deal with predators in our community and how/whether it’s worth it to deal with it ourselves or turn him into the state. not all of them know or think very much about why people behave the way they do tho, so while some of us are trying to isolate him others are trying to rehabilitate. i don’t think it’s gonna work.

and yeah prisons have an enormous recidivism rate in the US because they don’t really even do anything to address the problem. it’s like if a little kid screams and you smack it. how is smacking it gonna help? you just pissed it off and now it’s gonna end up worse than before

and ohhh ok ya that makes more sense i don’t think I’d ever seen the term before. people are generally in jail before trail here too, and certain crimes have very high or no bail, but it’s also arbitrary and can be set by a judge so obviously a bigoted judge setting your bail can end up pretty badly even for a minor non violent crime. same with sentencing. the whole process here is really entirely up to very few people which leads to people having life sentences for possessing the crack that the Reagan administration introduced into their neighborhoods ! it’s all a fuckin scam

the “cold rationality” people make me rethink being in stem tbh because they’re everywhere... ppl don’t understand that you can MAKE numbers fit your narrative. people here say “oh well there’s more black people in prison so they must commit more crime” but it doesn’t fucking work like that lol. it’s shit that’s so entrenched that fighting it and arguing against it w normies is overwhelming.

here school funding is determined by the property tax of the area because America is seriously fucking dystopian and kids with poor parents end up in shitty schools in areas the police deem as “bad” (you can get arrested just for being in them! it happened to me driving five minutes from my house in a “bad area” and I was arrested and charged with loitering). a lot of the time in places like that you have to turn to crime for any type of support system or even just to survive bc you were denied the kind of education that actually gives you any mobility, and for most people from these areas college is out of reach because the interest rate on loans will end up having you owe like hundreds of thousands of dollars by the time you’re done. sucks here