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everyone. We're gonna talk about Chapter two, and I labeled

it messy politics because it's kind of what your author

described Everything as when we look at the federal government,

everything's pretty laid out pretty neatly.

Um, it's very clear for the most part, you know,

we have the Constitution.

We know our rights.

He has all these different things.

They're labeled for us.

But as we talk about, um, different issues, and especially

when it comes to the criminal justice system and policies

and procedures, Ah, lot of that actually comes down to

your state, county and local city levels.

And so it gets very confusing.

There's not a standard unnecessarily for a lot of different

things. There's maybe a general standard that the federal government

puts out there, but then everybody could kind of pull

it into their own thought process.

So let's look briefly here at Chapter two.

So let's see, What are the missions for the criminal

justice system?

Well, um, your author list for different reasons why we

have the Colonel Justice system what it is that the

community wants.

Okay, Um right.

We have the right to be happy.

And we're right, um, to pursue American dreams, right?

Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness without have another

people, um, telling us No, we can't do that.

And so you know, we have these different goals in

the criminal justice system, but there's a catch to that.

How we accomplish those goals is we have to actually

use the community.

And that's obviously what we're seeing.

A major breakdown right now is there is no way

the community wants anything to do with the criminal justice

system. Um, we have a lot of people are saying,

You know what?

That's it.

We're done.

Let's get rid of the police, you know, abolish the

police. Let's figure out a different way to start over.

Um, and the community is trying to figure out how

to form different groups to potentially add into or replace

other parts of the criminal justice system.

Yeah, but then we get into something that is more

what we call private privatization.

And in this instance, um, you know, Chapter one talked

about mass incarceration, and this is a response to kind

of just some of what your first author said, and

they so we kind of look at something.

Um in the sense of taking it out of the

government's hands and putting it into private people and putting

it into the communities hands.

Well, that's the problem here is that we've taken corrections,

uh, meaning jails and prisons on.

We're putting this into the end of different companies and

giving it over and making it private.

Um, we're technically, it is the community that's running these

things. And in doing these things, that is the problem.

No. Are we selling people?

Are we helping people?

And in many cases, if you look at the video

that I posted here, you're going to see that there's

some major problems with how we try to deal with

a couple different things in the kernel.

Just system.

People are complaining that we're paying too much money.

Um, and the conditions are bad on.

We're treating people inhumanely.

And so how do we save money?

Well, let's try doing a private government or privatized company

to let them run the prison and hold people, and

we can cut our costs because they don't have to

hire um, a ZX trained many trained professionals.

They don't have to hire people who are even qualified

necessarily to normally work any facility.

And so after you watch this video, it kind of

gives you a better understanding of how this is actually

more serious problem thing we realize.

So what is their solution to some of this?

Um, this man here, Dan, he works at the Department

of Corrections.

Um, in believe it's Minnesota, but he has a very

interesting perspective on possible solutions for what we should be

doing in the prisons.

Um, since we're talking pretty much right now about mass

incarceration, yes, the issues that he brings up in the

ideas that he brings up that they have already implemented

where he works is amazing.

And it would be really great if we could start

looking at instead of abolishing everything.

Um, there's groups that every now they're called abolitionist, and

that's their goal is to get rid of all prisons

and to get rid of all law enforcement on dhe.

They believe that there's a totally different aspect of how

to control, uh, potential issues, right?

Uh, in our society so everybody doesn't get along.

And there's people who do have addiction issues, medical issues,

mental health issues and, yes, the criminal system has been

forced to deal with a lot of that.

Which is why we have seen the results of a

lot of what we got right now.

Um, not not looking at some, obviously the bigger pictures

of bias and racism and prejudice nous but just looking

at the perspective of how to deal with crime.

Uh, because if we got rid of or if we

abolish some of these things, the idea is is there

such a thing as crime now?

So people would never be punished.

So do you get to do what you want or

are we looking at a way to reframe it?

Reword it?

Uh, it's an interesting thought process.

Okay, so there's a lot of different people out there,

and there's there's kind of a group right now that

is literally working on, um, what they call being an

abolitionist in getting rid of some of, um, er the

parts of the common justice system that seemed to be

where people suffer the most.

Okay, but Dan solutions there, I think are amazing.

So check that video out.

And of course, you know, here's the problem, right?

We're looking at being cost effective in this response.

This author is saying, um, you know that the first

author didn't take everything into consideration.

Um, and the first author, Mr Burke.

Oh, you know what?

You know, we start, um, maybe reallocating the funding and

doing it the right way.

Um, it will help solve some of our problems, But

you've already seen a video.

You've already looked at the privatization of prisons and realize

that just because it costs us doesn't mean it fix

everything, so money doesn't fix everything.

And that's kind of where we're at right now.

Like people you know, the government and our politicians, they

wanna argue just about money.

They don't really argue about the conditions or being humane.

They literally were just looking at a bottom dollar.

I'm many of their campaigns, and many of their gonna

tell you all I'm going to save us money because

I'm gonna start a different program.

Um, but they really don't They just kind of move

money around, but they really don't fix any issues because

they actually think money can fix it.

And if we really look at some of the major

issues that we have today in our system, money is

definitely not the solution here.

Now, with that in understanding that, you know, just because,

um right, we move money around, you know?

Well, it fix things.

Well, I'm going to show you here something called Realignment.

And in California, they came out with some different things.

Like I said, we had local level politics here where

you can look at what they called realignment and what

they did.

And this is kind of what is going on right

now. And from my understanding on we're gonna get into

this more, especially with some of our guest speakers that

are gonna be on this semester.

Um, looking at the differences between the abolitionists and the

people that want to defund, Um, I have the defund

the police because that seems to be the one area

that everybody is kind of on right now.

But I have a feeling that at some point it

will be a little bit different.

And, uh, you know, it's it's more about defunding this

system, but not necessarily just defunding it, saving everybody tax

dollars. It's about doing something similar to what California did

not what?

California hasn't really worked out very well for them.

Um, and it was how they realigned where they gave

the money back to the counties and told them to

house prisoners, um, or do something differently with prisoners versus

sending everybody the state prisons because they were so overcrowded,

state was telling them, Look, you're gonna have to let

10,000 prisoners out.

And the concern was is that not?

They didn't have 10,000 nonviolent prisoners, necessarily the let out.

And so now we have to look at how is

this gonna affect the communities in society?

Are these people are gonna commit crimes again?

You know, if they do, then everybody gets mad and

it Zaveri difficulty line.

Um, when it comes to law enforcement, it comes Thio

criminal justice and, uh, corrections.

Excuse me.

There's a lot of difficult lines that, um, nothing's black

and white.

There's so much great area.

There's so many different paths that people can take.

And so, um, but if you really look at what

we call de funding, this is kind of what the

idea here is that we're talking about or, in other

words, has been re allocating the funds.

In other words, cut it from places like corrections and

law enforcement and move it into actual resource is for

the communities.

So mental health addiction treatment in different issues like that.

Because when you look at addiction treatment or mental health,

there's very few places for people to go, especially in

our state.

So if we wanna look at our state Many years

ago, when I was younger pride in junior high school,

that's when all the state hospitals mental health hospital serving

shut down.

I'm not saying Let's build a bunch of hospitals to

put people back in because basically, that was just jails

for people with mental health.

Um, but we need to look at actual treatments, proper

medications. Um, you know, people that cannot live on their

own. How do we set that up?

There are group homes, but me being in the nonprofit

world, I've worked with some people that have run different

group homes, and it's actually very sad because the state

will pay you, and that's all they care about.

And that's the sad part.

Is that a lot of these group homes, um, there's

a lot of people good people out there and that

there's a lot of people out there that are saying,

Oh, you can have, you know, 15, 20 people in

this house and make all this money off of them

And then, you know, it's It's just all about getting

the state aid to take care of somebody like that.

And so it's a sad situation.

There's a lot of different places it's still to this

day need to be.

You know, those are the kind of things.

In a sense, it not necessarily defund those programs.

But let's look at where the money goes, how it

actually goes.

Does it take care of the person?

Is it just taking care of the caretaker?

Is the person getting what they need?

There's, um so there's a lot of different things like

that. So when we talk about defunding, it's not necessarily

because we want less taxes or less money going into

the government.

It's more about providing proper resource is for the community,

which I think where we're at today and all the

issues that we talked about today.

Um, this is something that can actually potentially happen, and

I think realignment is a good idea.

We just gotta learn how to implement it properly And

so, um, how much?

You just kind of look at this, Get an idea

of it.

We could talk about it, Um, on Monday when we

have class.

Um, And so, obviously, um, here's a podcast.

Kind of an idea of some issues and some things

from the perspective of defunding the police.

Um, And what's that like now in America?

The podcast is also on your syllabus that I put

in there for this week.

So, um, just trying to provide an extra space for

some links for you guys to, um, you know, be

ableto listen to some of the extra things that I

put in there.

But, you know, if we were to abolish police and

privatize it, would that help us?

I mean, we looked at how privatizing prisons could go.

Um, you know, how do you guys think privatizing police

would potentially go, or should we defund?

But then we have to look at how that looks.

And do we realign the mission for what police are

for? And then how do we build the actual resource

is that we're looking at for, um, the reallocation of

those funds.

Another issue that we have is that the health insurance

companies get involved in almost all of this is far

as treatments and things go and most treatment centers, addiction

centers, rehabs, those kind of things.

Um, and any mental health facility there is they will

not take a person unless they actually have to things

and I'd and health insurance.

And in most cases, those people do not have either

one or they only have maybe an I D at

best. And that, in turn, either keeps him from going

in or if they do have health insurance.

Most health insurance companies don't pay more than 90 days

for rehabilitation, which is barely enough time for that person

to even have the drugs or alcohol different things out

of their system to, um, function.

And then I say, drugs.

It's not necessarily street drugs.

It could be pharmaceuticals as well.

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