I have not gone into this one case in detail, but I'm a bit skeptical of Charile's claim that dangerous offenders / flight risks are being released all over the place by the Milwaukee prosecutor. In general, the push to stop using excessive bail to punish poor people who have not even had their day in court is the right one. Knowing toda…
I have not gone into this one case in detail, but I'm a bit skeptical of Charile's claim that dangerous offenders / flight risks are being released all over the place by the Milwaukee prosecutor. In general, the push to stop using excessive bail to punish poor people who have not even had their day in court is the right one. Knowing today's GOP, this is indeed just another attempt to drum up fear in their white constituents and to take an isolated, high-profile case and use it as a cudgel to beat Democrats with.
I have not gone into this one case in detail, but I'm a bit skeptical of Charile's claim that dangerous offenders / flight risks are being released all over the place by the Milwaukee prosecutor. In general, the push to stop using excessive bail to punish poor people who have not even had their day in court is the right one. Knowing today's GOP, this is indeed just another attempt to drum up fear in their white constituents and to take an isolated, high-profile case and use it as a cudgel to beat Democrats with.
Democrats – on this issue and everywhere – need to stop just playing defense and start framing issues in a way that does them credit and hangs the Republicans with their awfulness. Otherwise, hat tip to the insightful George Lakoff, they're just saying "Don't think of an elephant." https://www.berkeleyside.org/2017/05/02/berkeley-author-george-lakoff-says-dont-underestimate-trump