[1]Real Justice

John,

Let me tell you what the news is not reporting⁣

If you were to look in almost any news publication in the past year,
they’d have you believing that murder rates are rising across the country
and that to fix that, we need to invest MORE money in police and in
prisons.

They would have you believe that policies aimed at harm reduction by
getting rid of sentencing on low-level crimes are what’s causing this
‘lawlessness’.

That’s not true,
John.⁣

First of all, murder rates were down, WAY down, in many large cities
across the country in 2021. In Boston, they were down 26%. In St. Louis,
they were down 25%. In Miami, they were down 15%. In Seattle, they were
down 22%.

Second of all, a perceived increase in crime is EXACTLY what our opponents
use to fuel a frenzy of fear to invest more money in a system that
endangers the lives of poor, working class people — especially Black and
brown people.

Instead of addressing the root causes of injustice and harm, their
solutions are to increase funding for police officers, invest in opening
new jails and prisons, and fuel the ongoing crisis that is mass
incarceration.

Police won’t be able to solve the crimes we need to be solved — like
murders. In fact, the rate of them solving these crimes are HORRIBLE.

John, it’s
heartbreaking. We see this pattern over, and over, and over. As I’ve said
before — it causes more arrests, more incarceration, more poverty, more
despair, which leads to more drug use, which leads to a vicious cycle of
mass incarceration that is inescapable.

We at Real Justice have to put a stop to this. And the good news is, the
work we have done to combat this horrific harm has been working.

In the places where we have already elected good DA’s, we are succeeding
in enormous ways. It’s not always perfect. But it’s progress.

Those DA’s are prosecuting violent cops who never would’ve faced
accountability of any kind without those DA’s in office.

They are freeing the innocent, mostly Black men who have been wrongfully
imprisoned.

They are overhauling what true public safety actually means in their
cities.

And they are working hard to undo policies that contribute to mass
incarceration.

We have big plans for this work in 2022,
John. We are helping lay the
groundwork for future wins, but we are also defending the progress we’ve
made. District by district. City by city. All across the country.

[ [link removed] ]We can’t do it without you. Please, I’m asking if you’ll make your best
gift to Real Justice, to make sure we can hold our opponents accountable
and elect justice champions who understand the root causes of crime and
are doing everything they can to transform what justice looks like in this
country.

Love and appreciate you,

Shaun



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