Tiffany Cabán introduced herself to voters as a “queer, Latina career public defender,” and vowed to be a “decarceral” prosecutor — reversing large-scale incarceration. She offered a long list of offenses that her office would decline to prosecute, including subway fare evasion, marijuana possession, sex work and resisting arrest when there is no other underlying crime. That should help keep more criminals on the streets and out of the lock-up. Why that makes sense is, … well, it pretty much makes no sense at all but maybe there is something that can be learned from Tiff.
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