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As of November 9, 2020, the United States has had over 10 million confirmed cases of COVID-19 and at least 240,000 deaths.
The COVID-19 pandemic has pushed the boundaries of our criminal legal system, testing the entrenchment of patterns in incarceration, policing, and surveillance.
From the earliest days of the pandemic, it was clear that the novel coronavirus posed an outsized danger to the more than two million people locked inside America’s prisons and jails.
The people have judged the cops to be a greater risk to health than covid and frankly that’s on cops.
The most dangerous place to be in America is prison or jail.
Criminal courtrooms are among many workplaces to shut down and adopt virtual operations in response to the coronavirus pandemic.
Although there were those who foretold the risks of a pandemic, it is fair to say most of the world was caught unprepared. All of the sudden there was a scramble—for protective clothing, for tests, for antivirals and a vaccine.
We are not very good at admitting past mistakes, especially on issues of race, and that has consequences.
On October 27, 1996, as the cameras rolled, San Francisco Mayor and former California State Assembly Speaker Willie L. Brown, Jr. took the stage in a drab auditorium on the campus of San Francisco State University.
This November, the citizens of California will vote on a proposition to remove the following words from their state constitution: “The state shall not discriminate against, or grant preferential treatment to, any individual or group on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin in the operation of public employment, public education, or public contracting.”