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(she/her) Policy Director, Colorado Freedom Fund @FreedomFundCO In the daily struggle to Bring Our Neighbors Home
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@RepBoebert
Ummm, that would be YOU
@laurenboebert
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Remember 1776? Coloradans will not forget. Guarantee you will be voted out next election cycle.
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@nowthisnews
For my kids who have really known no president but Donald Trump, this clip was a bit shocking “He said that nice stuff even though he lost??” “He stopped them from booing?”
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I am old school in that I think facts matter. So I asked Denver through open records for ANY data supporting assertions of a connection between pretrial release and violent crime. Answer from Denver: We don’t have that data. Good public safety policy comes from facts, not fear.
In a public safety speech, Denver Mayor Hancock again takes aim at cash bond reform saying it may have good intentions but repeat offenders get out of jail too easily. "We have a system, regardless of the best intentions ... releases criminals back on the streets."
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There is no scenario in which crime rates or behavior of police lead to anything but an increase in police budgets. Crime up, crime down, good cops, bad cops - doesn’t matter. More money to cops is always the answer. Denver of course is no exception.
After Louisville police killed Breonna Taylor, the city increased the police budget by $750,000 and cut the library budget by $775,000. The police department's own violence was used as an excuse to give it more cash. Watch how the same people try to do the same thing now:
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My family followed YOUR public health guidance and cancelled our Thanksgiving plans
@MayorHancock
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You are the definition of a hypocrite.
When you disregard your own public health orders, guarantee many others will feel emboldened to do the same. That is on YOU.
Mayor Hancock’s public health hypocrisy should be national news. Not sure it will be. But it should be.
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To be clear, we had the votes to pass SB273 on the floor. Reps Matt Gray & Shannon Bird knew it. They chose to use their committee position to block a bill urged by their DA, Black & Brown colleagues & constituents, & supported by their caucus. That’s their flex.
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An overnight culture reset at the Aurora PD? Come on
@APDChiefWilson
. In the last month, the APD has gassed protesters for Elijah and forced an innocent black family to lay on the pavement at gun point, all under your watch. Sounds like business as usual.
"I think the culture’s been reset. I think everyone in this agency wants to move forward and regain the trust of the community.”
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Mr. Williams died in jail, where he was incarcerated only because he couldn’t pay a $400 bond.
I am so angry. Don’t let anyone tell you poverty isn’t a crime in Colorado. Rest in power Mr. Williams.
#EndCashBond
When 32-year-old Sean Williams was booked into the El Paso County Criminal Justice Center on Jan. 26 on low level charges, he probably thought he'd one day walk out a free man.
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Alcohol deaths are surging in Colorado. Does anyone think felonizing (or even criminalizing) the possession of alcohol is the solution?
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I keep seeing all these posts blaiming Republicans for AR-15 attacks. Fair, but let's be clear:
Colorado has a Dem trifecta and near super majority. Yet, Dems voted down an assault weapons ban & instead coalesced around lowest hanging fruit gun control bills.
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Good job CO. Now let’s do more next session:
End no knock warrants
End shooting into vehicles
Demilitarize law enforcement
No QI for state patrol and DOC
Jail depop -Mandatory summons and PR bonds for most offenses
Transparency of police misconduct files
Let’s do this
More than two-thirds of respondents — 69% — said they approve of Senate Bill 217, a sweeping police reform measure passed into law by the Colorado legislature in late spring.
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@DavidDOrtizCO
Disrupting Capitol business to call attention to the ever worsening humanitarian crisis in Palestine while CO legislators condemn any position other than "I stand with Israel," is not performative or petulant. It is brave and uncomfortable and lonely.
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Some folks are asking, so here is some personal news. I’ve been away for a while, and I’ll be away for a while longer. It’s my time to care for a loved one who means everything to me, and who now has
#ALS
. Grateful to the warriors doing the work while I step aside for a bit.
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For anyone who didn't get to watch the data-driven pretrial presentation to Denver Safety Committee today, here are the cliff notes: Mayor Hancock and Chief Pazen lied to y'all when they said pretrial release was causing an uptick in crime. Want to know more?
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It was killed by two committee members who’s DA SUPPORTED the bill, but who decided that they wouldn’t vote for a police reform bill unless the police chief also liked it. Talk about cops over community.
If we wait for cops to reform themselves, we’ll never see the change.
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This is a horrifying thread to read. It underscores that the courts will not save us from police violence, the need to have mental health first responders rather than cops with guns, & the importance of a state use of force law that goes beyond constitutional requirements.
Horrifying new 5th Circuit decision: Police officers tased Gabriel Eduardo Olivas while he was suicidal and soaked in gasoline. This set him on fire, burning him to death and burning down his house.
The court held the officers' actions were lawful. /1
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@GovofCO
says caged ppl get vaccine last? That makes no scientific sense and is straight up cruel. Huge outbreaks in CO prisons/jails where no social distancing possible. Even if you don't care about incarcerated ppl (clearly you don't), what about staff & surrounding community?
Polis is asked a question in Spanish about the order of who will get vaccinated.
"Personas libres deben recibirlo antes de personas en carceles," Polis says — free people should get it before incarcerated people.
Jails/prisons have had some of Colorado's biggest outbreaks.
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Hmm... early reports show that white women voted for Trump in higher numbers this year than 2016, and possibly in excess of 50% went for Trump. So I guess that means Biden has women of color to thank.
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I am disgusted.
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HB1326
#FailsOnFentanyl
. How the hell did we get here? A leftist insider’s🧵of outrage and gratitude. (1/15)
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In Epps v. Denver trial: Denver Police rep says that shooting pepper spray into the car of a man and his pregnant girlfriend was shocking and bad optics, but still within DPD policy.
Folks, we have a problem.
Q: Were you aware of any use of force outside of policy? A: No. Some things he disagreed with. Q: Does that include the shooting of a man in a car with his pregnant girlfriend? A: I did see that video. Q: Consistent w/ DPD policy & training? A: Shocked me; didn't like...
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Sign the petition to urge Mayor Hancock to stop the sweeps during COVID.
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And let's not forget that most folks in jail are unconvicted and in jail only because they can't afford their money bail to get released. The cruelty of condemning these folks because of their poverty to the COVID death trap that is our jails is immeasurable.
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Pay attention Denverites. Denver law enforcement leaders have been shifting their language on STAR, our city's nationally renowned alternate response program with proven results. Now we have a good idea why - LE want MORE police engagement on poverty offenses. Wrong direction.
Experiencing homelessness is not a crime. So, why does Director Saldate want to treat it as such?
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What keeps us safe? Wide access to affordable housing, mental health care, childcare & substance use treatment/safe use; living wages; community based violence interruption & re-entry programs. How about we try investing in people before returning to failed carceral polices?
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This is my lowest bar litmus test for the Denver Mayoral race. If you won’t clearly state you want the sweeps and the camping ban to end, zero chance I’ll vote for you.
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I am beyond thrilled to join
@FreedomFundCO
and their daily work to Bring Our Neighbors Home. It’s been a beautiful 11 years at the ACLU. Time for a new chapter working even closer with community, and especially people directly impacted by the pretrial system.
☀️Big news! Please join us in celebrating Rebecca Wallace—new Senior Policy Counsel at Colorado Freedom Fund.
Rebecca will lead CFF’s policy efforts to end wealth based detention and Bring Our Neighbors Home in Colorado.
Welcome
@RWallaceEsq
!
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Starting this morning and until the grocery workers strike is won, I will not cross the picket line. I will support workers seeking a living wage. We can’t call them “essential” and then treat them as expendable.
Tomorrow at 5am thousands of
@UFCW_7
King Soopers workers go on strike to stand up for their rights & fight back against corporate greed.
Here's what you can do to support workers who have been there for all of us throughout the pandemic.
#Solidarity
#1u
#copolitics
#coleg
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I, like many other Jews, desperately want a ceasefire in Palestine and an end to Israeli occupation. To call for an end to the extreme death and destruction in Palestine is not an antisemitic or pro-terrorist position. It is a pro-peace and pro-human dignity position.
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Report shows CO is one of 7 states that has seen a substantial INCREASE in the rate of police shootings since COVID hit. We are headed the wrong direction.
@EliseSchmelzer
@HerrickJohnny
@allisonsherry
@leslieherod
@SerenaForCO
@SenRhondaFields
@Leroy_Garcia
@MariForJustice
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I listened to 11+ hours of testimony last night & every single public health expert who testified opposed felonizing fentanyl possession, saying it will increase overdoses & decrease access to care. Most were Denver Drs. I guess they’re not in the category of people who matter?
Do Representative Valdez's statements reflect Denver values?
He says:
-"Everyone who matters" in Denver wants to felonize possession of ANY AMOUNT of fentanyl;
- Felonizing possession protects Black & Brown people;
-Denver has enough treatment beds for folks who need it.
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I appreciate the accuracy of this data-driven article, but it's pretty damned late & damage has been done. This data is not new & any reporter worth their salt could have uncovered it before publishing demonstrably false reports by law enforcement & right wing "think" tanks.
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I'm FIRED UP to get
@elisabethepps
elected. She's taught me to fight for the world we want & not be boxed in by the world we have. She's the hardest working person I know. She's whip smart, strategic, endlessly curious, & her heart is abundant. She's exactly who I want in CO leg.
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It took 3 years, but we fought and we won. This is an essential step toward the long-term goal of ending cash bail in Colorado.
A significant reform bill signed into law just now: Coloradans will be guaranteed bond hearings within 48 hours of arrest. Many jurisdictions do this already but in some places people languish in jail for days, or a week or more, before even seeing a judge.
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This notion that leftists don’t care about public safety is nonsensical. I live here to. I want to be safe, and I want my children to be safe, and my unhoused neighbors too. But the data tells me that broken windows policing & cash bond has not kept us safe.
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Colorado, are you paying attention? Reducing arrests for low level offenses makes us ALL safer.
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I’ve heard the HD6 race is toxic. I agree. But make no mistake: the toxicity goes only one way, and is directed at a Black woman, civil rights leader who has sacrificed and shown up for her community year after year. I’m beyond disgusted.
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Mad respect for GOP Rep
@shane_sandridge
at the well arguing against a GOP amendment to HB1326 to felonize all possession of fentanyl. He says he loves police, is biased toward them, but they are "not experts in the behavior of social sciences of addiction." (1/2)
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To be clear about what just happened, this amendment that just went on HB1326 will essentially felonize all street drugs above 1 gram, since the vast majority of these drugs now have fentanyl. This should work about as well as the War on Drugs.
Democratic Sens. Chris Hansen and Joann Ginal joined the GOP caucus to pass the amendment. One other Dem joined but it wasn’t a recorded vote so we don’t know who it was.
#copolitics
#coleg
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@elisabeth
So frustrating that
@DenverSheriff
continues to allow folks accused of the lowest level crimes be booked into COVID-ridden jails, while other CO sheriffs have adopted robust, strict jail admission standards that reserve jail beds only for ppl who pose a risk to the safety others.
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I am so sorry to unhoused people living in Denver that DPS's newest plan for "helping you" is to ticket & jail you if you can't be successfully connected to services. If we could ticket & arrest our way out of homelessness we would have. New leadership; same old failed policies.
Armando Saldate, really distinguishing himself here: "I don’t want to equate homelessness with crime, but...they need to understand it’s a violation of the law and the mechanism for that violation is a citation for this offense." Of being unhoused. 🗑️
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Read this.
@DrAprylA
calls out
@GovofCO
to give more than lip service to protecting Black lives. He has the power to safely decrease the prison population, but refuses to act, even as other govs step up. Polis needs to show us that
#BlackLivesMatter
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Honest question: Does it matter that the Chief of Police and Mayor of Denver have been ginning up fear of pretrial release and urging increased use of money bond when the data from Denver provides ZERO support for their positions?
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A spokesman for Former Director Murphy Robinson responded in writing that his statements to the press that pretrial release was contributing to an increase in violent crime was not meant to be taken “literally” and that he had no data or documents to support the statement.
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@PrestleyRobert
@jeffcosheriffco
Interesting to note that crime in Jeffco is flat from 2019-2020, even as jail populations went down 50%. Data talks. No correlation between jail populations and crime.
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@DenverPolice
Devastating. My kiddo & I bike this designated bike route to school. We wait well past when the light turns green b/c cars blow thru the red on Fed all the time. And then we must hurry for our super short light. Why promote bikes in Denver when there’s no support to keep us safe?
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⏲️It's about time CO Democrats are forced to vote on one of the top priorities they campaign on - banning assualt weapons. Deep gratitude to
@RepEpps
and
@_timhernandez
for calling the question. 🙏
The bill is likely to get out of this committee. It's then likely to get out of the full House (though it would need to clear House Appropriations first). That'd put it on something of a collision course with the Senate (even before getting to question of Gov. Polis).
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📢Remember
@MayorHancock
and others telling us folks released on PR bond were driving an uptick in crime? Well, the data is in:
✅No relationship between crime & PR bonds.
✅Over 6 yrs, rearrest for folks released on PR have remained low and flat.
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Friends, SB62 is dead for all practical purposes. It's painful that lies won the day, despite huge activism and community support.
SB273 is not a replacement bill, but it sure will do a lot of harm reduction by mandating tickets instead of arrest for low level offenses.
📢CJ REFORM BILL INTRODUCED📢
Today,
@PeteLeeColorado
&
@domoreno
intro'd SB21-273, which works to dismantle long-entrenched policing & jailing practices that lead to racial discrimination, unjust detainment & destabilization of vulnerable communities.
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💞This Jewish ode to my dearest friend and mentor
@elisabethepps
makes my heart sing. Elisabeth is the kind of friend that is family to me. As a Jew, I am welcome in her space and loved as my authentic self. Stop spreading lies about her.
The hit piece accused
@elisabethepps
of being an anti-Semite (and used Islamophobic dog whistles to double down on the claim). I'd like to discuss how Elisabeth's campaign is one of the more "Jewish" things I've witnessed in
#copolitics
.🧵
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Activist
@jsimms1119
, who happens to be a Broncos safety :), has it right:
@GovofCO
has the power to release “some of our prisoners that are at risk, not a threat to society, and have a stable home to return to. It just seems like a no-brainer” to release these folks.
Ever since the George Floyd protests, a handful of Broncos players have been especially active in Colorado politics. I spoke with
@jsimms1119
about this advocacy and his desire to see the state safely decarcerate prisons.
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Bail funds promote public safety. They free people from the violence of jail & allow them to fight their cases and keep their families, homes and jobs. They build collective power by living out the ways the state should be supporting ppl in need rather than imprisoning them.
Opinion | The Power of Community Bail Funds - The New York Times
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Felonizing addiction to fentanyl has passed out of a single house committee. We are not done fighting for our neighbors who use drugs and who are as deserving of humanity as any us.
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We watched officers snickering at the video of the takedown and waiting eargerly for the sounde of the "pop" of Ms. Garner's shoulder dislocating. This is not a training problem.
Colorado police agencies are asking the Alzheimer's Association to help with training.
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If Wilson is going to change anything, she will need to stop acting surprised when her officers engage in violent, discriminatory conduct and start acknowledging that she has a culture problem on her hands that requires more than firing a few bad apples.
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It’s dead.
I am so G-D tired of spending my time killing harmful, carceral bills that take us backward. But here we go.
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@elisabeth
calls out
@GovofCO
for his outrage at property destroyers who he described as “criminal terrorists” while ignoring the destruction of human lives behind prison walls. Gov can and should release medically vulnerable prisoners now.
#decarcerationday
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HB1326 was crafted without input of public health experts & passed over their vociferous, unanimous objection. In the midst of a public health crisis, CO legislators turned the reigns over to law enforcement who are woefully ill-equipped to solve an overdose crisis. 3/15
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Last night, DOC announced 2 more COVID deaths.
@GovofCO
, pub health guidance is clear: all folks living in congregate settings should be prioritized for vaccination, including incarcerated folks.
Follow the sciene, not the politics.
via
@denverpost
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Last night, Colorado’s Dem-controlled legislature passed HB1326, a bill felonizing possession of 1+ gram of any drug containing fentanyl. We know from history & public health experts, this bill will increase death and decrease access to treatment. 2/15
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Another death. 1000 active cases in DOC. Where is
@GovofCO
? So many incarcerated ppl could be safely released, and along the way we could lessen the community and racial harms of mass incarceration. Why does the Guv refuse to act?
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For the past 4 years, re-arrest rates for folks on pretrial release in Denver have remained basically flat and hit their lowest point in 2021. 90% of people released to pretrial services in Denver had no new arrest in 2021.
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With the passage of HB1280, 48 hour bond hearings are coming to Colorado.
@elisabeth
&
@ACLUofColorado
have been fighting, alongside community, for 3 years to pass this critical policy, which is foundational to ending wealth-based detention in CO & bringing our neighbors home.
Colorado legislature has sent the gov a bill to require bond hearings within 48 hours. A big deal because some (pretrial, unconvicted) folks sit in jail a week or more before even seeing a judge. The policy has come a long way — unpassable not long ago, today a 30-5 Senate vote.
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My friends, I promise you we worked day and night on the policy, the politics, and helping keep the community informed and engaged. We were grateful for a handful of champions under the Dome who fought for our proposed amendments: mens rea, repeal, MAT in jail. 9/15
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Come on Colorado! How about we follow Vermont’s lead and save some lives?
Overdose prevention centers now.
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SB21-273, the Michael Marshall Justice Act and the Marvin Booker Justice Act, so named in an amendment by
@SenRhondaFields
, just passed the Senate and is coming to you
@COHouseDem
.
The bill is safe, just, and will save lives. We are counting on you to pass it.
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Why can't I stop talking about Gaza when there is war and oppresion in so many other places?
1. Because I am an American, and America is funding the war in Gaza.
2. Because I am a Jew, and this war is allegedly being waged on my behalf.
Don't stop talking about Gaza.
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I’m devastated for our neighbors who use drugs & the people who love them. I’m outraged that our Democratic-controlled legislature is the architect of this provision & that this bill does not contain a single $ for long-term recovery. I’m also grateful for a few things… 13/15
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Public health experts consistently tell us forced treatment rarely works. Why does the Boulder Police Chief think she has any basis to recommend policies to successfully treat behavioral health issues? Herold’s policies have made things worse in Boulder for folks with BH issues.
Herold: "I think we need to take a hard look at some of the reforms that came after George Floyd .... (like) ways our municipal court system could hold people until" they determine what's best for that person
"Right now, I'd like to see mandated treatment."
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Really nice to see an opinion piece on SB62 by an elected representative that is based on fact rather than fiction, humanity rather than fear.
"Poverty is the common denominator for who is in jail on any given day. Not dangerousness. Not severity of crime. Simple poverty." - BoCo Commissioner Claire Levy on pretrial reforms.
@PassSB21_062
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I’m grateful for the diverse coalition that came together to make a cruel bill less harmful & the community that rose up. I’m grateful our collective advocacy meant we didn’t felonize at 0 grams, we have mandated MAT in jails, & we kept some protection for unknowing use. 14/15
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🙏
@baconforco
"I am personally not inclined to repeat what we did 30 years ago. We spent 30 years trying to undo the tangle that was crack and cocaine. We spent 30 years [] spending way too much incarcerating people and not educating kids.”
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30 minutes before conference committee, the Coalition was first informed repeal was being negotiated away with the AG, 3 Democratic Senators, and a few progressive DAs. We were played -- made to think we were at the table when clearly we were never actually invited. 12/15
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📢Denver Post: Park Hill golf course development is a sweetheart deal that lacks financial accountability via
@denverpost
Is it finally time for those Yes on 20 folks who spout vitriol whenever progressives question the measure to stop gaslighting?
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WE ARE NOT DONE. Join and help us continue the work. It’s a multi-year effort, but we will prevail.
Colorado, we're building a statewide coalition to fight mass incarceration, the criminalization of poverty, overpolicing, racialized policing, and cash bail in our state.
We hope you will join us. ➡️
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For nearly a year, media has reported lies by Mayor Hancock and Chief Pazen about pretrial and crime, mostly without any serious counter-analysis or fact checking. Will the many journalists who reported these statements now exert equal energy to set the record straight?
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Remember how we've been saying that opposition for SB273 is spreading demonstrably false information?
Please spread the word of the commercial bail bond industry's predatory attempts to preserve a system that profits from human captivity.
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“Hard working, knows the Capitol, gets bills passed.” Yep. That’s
@elisabethepps
.
Colorado Medical mental healthcare providers endorse Elisabeth Epps for House District 6.
Hard working, knows the Capitol, gets bills passed.
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These draconian sentences are in CO as well. Here's just one:
Mr. Johnson is a 62-year-old grandpa who turned his life around in prison while serving 90+ yrs for non-violent crimes related to drug use.
@GovofCO
, let Mr. Johnson come home.
@elisabeth
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🎉Whew! I ❤️ CO's defenders! Not a single bid in response to Aurora City Council's sham RFP that dramatically understated caseloads in the hopes of getting a low bid contract to privatize Aurora Public Defenders Office. Community wins this round!
No takers after Aurora council asks for bids to replace public defender office with private lawyers
‘I will take this as a sign of progress toward getting back to doing the real work that we do’
#COpolitics
#AuroraCO
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"Football is temporary. Being a Black man in America is permanent."
@jsimms1119
Big respect for activists & Broncos players
@Alexander_CB45
,
@_BigBaus
standing up for the most vulnerable among us.
@GovofCO
, it's time to do your part by safely releasing folks from prison.
I wrote about the Denver Broncos who are pushing for social change and putting public pressure on the governor. “Football is temporary. Being a Black man in America is permanent,” says
@jsimms1119
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Come to our Northside fundraiser for Elisabeth Epps this Monday 2/28.
@elisabethepps
is radically optimistic, the hardest worker I know, and she will move this state forward on all of the progressive fronts we care about.
Event address upon RSVP:
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Who thinks Chief Pazen failed community & cops during the protests?
-Office of the Independent Monitor
-Reimagine Policing Task Force
-A unanimous federal jury
Yet Pazen denies any failures. How can Denver trust him to lead in this critical moment?
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@SenatorHick
Ummm, you just voted to deny undocumented folks (and their children) COVID relief $$ in the middle of a global pandemic. You can't have it both ways. We didn't vote you in to have you turn your back on us.
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There's been a lot of unhinged rhetoric that one can't be pro-affordable housing and against 20.
I so appreciate thoughtful debate and analysis on the subject.
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June's son, Jerid, died by suicide this year in the Alamosa County Jail after the prosecutor asked the judge to release Jerid, who posed no safety risk. The judge refused, and Jerid didn't have the money to post a $5,000 bond.
Cash bond costs lives.
@PassSB21_062
“We need a better system, where jail cells are reserved for people who pose a real safety risk and where people like my son are not driven to desperation because they can’t pay for their freedom.”
#SB62
Read June Thistle’s letter:
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How about we listen to the public health experts when solving for the public health crisis we are in with fentanyl.
This bill will 1) flood the jails, 2) increase overdose deaths, 3) worsen disparities, and 4) force the market to adapt to MORE POTENT synthetic opioids. HB22-1326 is WRONG for
#Colorado
.
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It's official,
@GovofCO
has used his political position to force
@CDPHE
to change their vaccine guidance to ensure that most incarceated ppl go to the back of the line.
This kind of political control over what is supposed to be a science-driven public health decision is scary
Colorado's revised vaccine distribution plan, released today:
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@DeniseMaesEsq
@elisabethepps
@javier_mabrey
@jshoward85
Thanks for being my canvassing buddy
@DeniseMaesEsq
! It was fun to get to talk to folks about
@elisabethepps
and feel the excitement in HD6 for her.
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When it comes to people living on the streets or behind bars,
@GovofCO
has been consistent: anti-science and regressive.
Public health experts, not pandering politicians, should be making decisions about who gets priority vaccination.
Denver wants to prioritize vaccinating the homeless and jail inmates, but Polis won’t allow it.
@Conrad_Swanson
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👇👇Thoughtful, data-driven analysis by
@EliseSchmelzer
. Turns out crime is not partisan & it's not driven by police budgets. So, how are we going to save lives in this dual epidemic of guns and COVID? Roll up our sleeves & address root causes of crime.
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Even among the people deemed "most risky" by our state's racist, classist pretrial risk assessment tool, almost 90% appeared for all court dates and had no new arrest during the pretrial period.
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Balloon boy gets a pardon while Ron Johnson, an asthmatic grandpa who has turned his life around in prison after being sentenced to 90+ yrs for non-violent crimes related to substance abuse, will remain stuck in our COVID infested prisons.
Priorities,
@GovofCO
Gov. Jared Polis did a very Polis thing: Pardons for Balloon Boy's parents, other clemency for 20 others via
@denverpost
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To secure these amendments, we had to overcome active lobbying by the CO Attorney General, law enforcement, including “progressive” District Attorneys, and the Democratic caucus which, as a body, saw felonization of addiction as a legitimate pathway to treatment. 10/15
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While pretrial court appearance rates have ticked down slightly in the past 4 years, there is no meaningful difference in rates for folks released on money bond versus PR bond. In 2021, folks released on PR were more likely to appear for court than those who paid $ to be free.
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This cop needs his badge stripped, not just 40 hours of lost pay and reassignment within the CSPD. He is an undercover racist who used an assumed identity to spew hate and violence. Yet, he'll continue to wear a
@CSPDPIO
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Another possible reason some people might have wanted to defeat this policy is because every single public health expert who testified on the bill said it would lead to more people dying of fentanyl overdoses.
House Speaker Alec Garnett, the main architect of the Colorado fentanyl law, today said of those people (and there were many) who sought to defeat this policy: "They would prefer either for political purposes or for their own finger-pointing to have nothing done."
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Turns out NOT prosecuting people for low-level offenses makes us SAFER. How about here in CO we start with just keeping folks accused of low-level offenses out of jail while they resolve their cases. A modest but important step for safety, equality & race justice.
@PassSB21_062
The first analysis of its kind in the country finds not prosecuting lower-level misdemeanors cut by 58% the subsequent arrests of those individuals, powerful support for policies of Boston
@DARollins
and other reform-minded prosecutors.
@MarshallProj
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