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âIf the people are capable of understanding, seeing and feeling the differences between true and false, right and wrong, virtue and vice, to what better principle can the friends of mankind apply than to the sense of this difference?â âJohn Adams (1775)
âAfter viewing the video of Mr. Floydâs death, I didnât need to see any additional body-camera recordings to determine his death was negligent. He was handcuffed, there were three other officers present, and additional officers were on the way. Though Floyd was taken down after resisting arrest and becoming belligerent, once on the ground he appeared compliant, posed little further threat to the officers or bystanders, and indicated he was distressed and having trouble breathing.â
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VALDOSTA, Ga. â District Attorney Brad Shealy and the Office of the District Attorney of the Southern Judicial Circuit reminded the community and circuit that the week of April 18-24, 2021, is National Crime Victimsâ Right Week (NCVRW).Â
Due to COVID, no public events to raise awareness about crime victimsâ issues and rights will be held, according to a press release from Shealyâs office.Â
âThe community still needs to be aware that despite COVID and the closing of our judicial system, crime still occurs and more of our fellow citizens become victims,â the press release said.
âThe faces of crime victims are those of our family, friends, neighbors, and community members,â it said. âAccording to the most recent National Crime Victimization Survey from the Bureau of Justice Statistics, 1.2 million people were victims of violent crime excluding simple assault in 2019, a significant decrease from the year befo
We Don’t Need Prisons to Make Us Safer
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To the statement that prisons provide safety, we should ask, “Safety for whom? And from what?”
The United States now has 2.3 million people behind bars of some form or another. These are not 2.3 million isolated individuals their imprisonment sends reverberations into their families and communities. On any given day, 2.7 million children have a parent in prison. Incarcerating that parent removes a source of financial and emotional support for both children and adult family members. For families who are already in economically precarious situations, removing a parent can plunge them into poverty, reduce their safety, and make them more vulnerable to arrest and incarceration.