Bradford Colbert

Director of Legal Assistance to Minnesota Prisoners at Mitchell Hamline School of Law. Appellate Public Defender.

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@dbrauer This seems a little crazy, doesn’t it? I liked the proposal until this; it’s not clear, at least to me, how the process works. And it doesn’t seem like a particularly smart thing to approve a process that no one is really sure how it works.

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@dbrauer Hey David -- I'm a little confused about the process of selecting the Commissioner. The ballot refers to a mayoral nomination and council appointment, but would this more like a council confirmation than appointment?

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@JohnFPfaff Minnesota Supreme Court decision that explicitly says the limit is almost always 2x — and then actually, and surprisingly, followed through.
And in Minnesota, a person does 2/3 in prison and 1/3 on supervised release.

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@JohnFPfaff A slight correction — if the court departs from the presumptive sentence, they are generally limited to double the presumptive sentence, not the statutory maximum. It’s possible to give more, but it rarely — really rarely — happens.

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@kath_krueger @MollyJongFast When dealing with people who are fuckers, it's one thing to think they're fuckers, or tell your friends they're fuckers, but it seems, well, counterproductive, to call them fuckers during an interview when the point of the interview is that you're going to try to work with them.

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@LemanieGrace @MisterTyler I completely agree. It seems like for the first time a majority of people recognize that there is a big problem with policing. We should take advantage of that to fix the problem, and we shouldn’t worry about what we call the solution. And then we should fix mass incarceration.

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@BullyCreative That is really important data and I am so with you.

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For what it's worth, the data on this is all over the map. It seems like the presence of police does reduce crime, but that is only part of the story because this account for the social cost of policing. Here is a short article discussing the issue. https://t.co/QIsJHe6uRm

[D.A. Bullock @BullyCreative]

I just asked this question to @MayorFrey and Chief Arradondo on a zoom forum and they both filibustered and avoided the question so I will ask again - We talk about the uptick as the crisis, which assumes the former level was acceptable or competent public safety,

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*doesn't account not does account

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For what it's worth, the data on this is all over the map. It seems like the presence of police does reduce crime, but that is only part of the story because this account for the social cost of policing. Here is a short article discussing the issue. https://t.co/QIsJHe6uRm

[Kristy Wesson @kdwesson18]

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@shawnee1228 @DanaSchwartzzz @KevinMKruse Trying to. But it’s hard when you’re city is, literally, on fire.

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@DanaSchwartzzz @KevinMKruse A couple of problems with this. First, target wasn’t the only store damaged - there were scores of small businesses that were destroyed, and an apartment building that had affordable housing.

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@loripetty @dwaynebetts Stop biking!

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@RebeccaShlafer @j_b_saunders @sarakettering @DrLaurelDavis @lizshaver15 @CiannaHolthaus @kari_mentzer I want one!

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This is going to be a great event!

[Hamline Center for Justice and Law @hamlinecjl]

Join us for a partnership with Mitchell Hamline School of Law for “Barriers to Reentry” on Friday, Feb. 28th 8:30am-5pm at Mitchell Hamline School of Law in St. Paul.

Tickets available at https://t.co/da1NfZAKZM

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@isamuel Yeah, I know the feeling.

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@isamuel Interesting. Your take seems a little, well, elitist. The vast, vast, majority of the students at my law school, and even fewer of the students in my clinic for incarcerated persons, will ever go to big law.

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@isamuel Appreciate the acknowledgment. From what I know about the clinics at highly ranked schools, I think you might have a point (although I wouldn’t use the word drones). It certainly has been a topic of much discussion among clinicians at those schools.

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@jasonisbell -- This New Yorker article: The Time of Your Life, by James Wood. https://t.co/KdMHtWdNA4, is exactly the theme of If We Were Vampires: "If what makes our lives meaningful is that time ends, then what defines us is what Marx called “an economy of time.”