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Publications Dec 1, 1993
From Beyond Shelter To Behind Bars
A study of San Francisco’s practice of policing homelessness. Our Officers and Deputies are highly trained individuals, but they can not be expected to protect us from poverty.
Examination of corrections in CA concludes, “we starve programs which could have an impact on crime in order to pour money into a bloated imprisonment program which cannot work.”
This report compares the incarceration rates of African American males in San Francisco to those of African American males in the United States overall and black males in South Africa.
San Francisco’s fiscal decisions in the 1990’s made trade offs between needed social services and jail construction.
The study examines California’s system of parole and makes recommendations for improvement.