D.A. Rollins Puts People, Wellness, and Treatment over Incarceration

Trickle-Down Socialism

Pat talks to District Attorney Rachel Rollins, who was elected to the Suffolk County (Boston, MA) top law enforcement position on a platform of declination and diversion instead of prosecuting low-level crimes, especially crimes associated with poverty, mental illness, and drug use. In the interview, D.A. Rollins explains her progressive values and her philosophy for reforming the criminal justice system and holding police accountable for uses of force and misconduct. District Attorney Rollins takes bold stances, like her willingness to forgive all convictions that drew on evidence that was processed at the embattled drug lab in Massachusetts. Rollins even took a new bold stance on the TDS Podcast, publicly supporting the idea of beginning the process of creating supervised use facilities in Massachusetts, arguing that the open-air drug market on Mass Ave and Melnea Cass has all the negative consequences of a supervised use facility without any of the public health benefits. Rollins also discusses how some police hide behind the "Blue Wall" of silence when they should come out and condemn actions like the actions Chauvin took that killed George Floyd.

C-Money Burns, Pat, and Dan discuss the Chauvin trial in the open.

George Floyd, Black Lives Matter, Police Accountability, Derek Chauvin trial, Supervised Use Facilities, Police Reform, Criminal Justice Reform, District Attorney Rachael Rollins, Treatment, Decriminalize Mental Health, Decriminalize Drug Addiction, Decriminalize Homelessness, Defund the Police, Abolish Prisons,

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