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Feb 11, 2022Liked by John Roman, PhD

After the revolution, what's the plan?

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My next assignment for you is to develop a list of citizen / justice systems contacts in which the citizens enjoy some agency and count those. Score jury trials as a positive good instead of an expensive nuisance; participation in sentinel event reviews as a contribution, restorative justice and other collaborative and endeavors in which citizens (and residents) exercise some power.....

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Ah. If only the discourse had taken this turn at the beginning. But now, I'd be interested to see you follow through the implications of drug de-criminalization for the contact approach, and with an eye on not just the number, but the particular nature and distribution of the iatrogenic harms that enforcement by criminal justice contacts generates.

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