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This article highlights the hypocrisy and malfeasance of the CDAA who invoke the mantra of victims rights to shield themselves from scrutiny. This piece should also start an important conversation about the social construct of crime and allocation of prosecutorial resources. https://twitter.com/chatfieldkate/status/1349567306385350658
Prosecutors use their vast powers to punish private interpersonal violence at great personal and financial costs. However, local DAs fail to use these immense powers to punish, deter, and protect poor marginalized communities from environmental violence.
Think about it. If you assault someone you face up to six years in state prison, but in California if you pollute and endanger a community causing disease and birth defects - the local DA throws up their hands and says they lack the expertise or resources to prosecute.
This fantastic investigative piece shows that California’s traditional law & order prosecutors abandoned victims and instead misappropriated funds for environmental crime. https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Audit-finds-state-district-attorney-group-15868701.php
