• givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Eh, that was kind of overblown.

    She had more prosecutions than the prior DA, but most weren’t jail time, it was just get caught pay a fine.

    And it makes sense when that became a thing, people were riskier with it and got caught more.

    She’s been pro legalization for almost a decade.

    They’re not doing enough right now, but it’s not like she was some hardcore soldier in the drug war.

    Biden on the other hand…

    https://www.congress.gov/bill/101st-congress/senate-bill/3266

    https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/may/30/joe-biden/joe-biden-1994-crime-bill-mass-incarceration/

    He was behind a lot of the early 90s police bullshit that we’re still dealing with today.

    What’s fucked up is it coincided with the same drop in violent crime from banning leaded gas that every country saw. So some people still think that backwards ass shit works Plus, they were usually alive for decades before the ban and exposed to all that lead for decades…

    Shit fucks with your brain, especially as you age