Proponents of defund and other radical criminal justice reforms are painted as divorced from reality. They want to take violent criminals, the thinking goes, and I don’t know, make them pinky swear not to commit more violent crimes or something. Meanwhile, moderates like Eric Adams and Joe Biden are presented as reasonable, moderate, attuned to realities on the street, etc. They’re the “adults in the room” and they are
Moderates are the lunatics
Moderates are the lunatics
Moderates are the lunatics
Proponents of defund and other radical criminal justice reforms are painted as divorced from reality. They want to take violent criminals, the thinking goes, and I don’t know, make them pinky swear not to commit more violent crimes or something. Meanwhile, moderates like Eric Adams and Joe Biden are presented as reasonable, moderate, attuned to realities on the street, etc. They’re the “adults in the room” and they are