It’s the *only* medical facility for women within the Bureau of Prisons.

What for what? I made a broad statement that empirically, number of police officers is not negatively correlated with crime rate, and that it’s ludicrous to assert the issue in the two cities with most police in the country is simply a lack of police officers. They objectively suck at solving crime.

This really informed my thinking about it why we’re so fucked up: reason.com/volokh/2018/...

Chicago PD has 50 full-time staffers, earning their keep, putting out fodder to ensure the myth maintains the dominating force behind American policing.

It’s called “regular presentation” or “mandatory presentation” but it’s just signing into a clip board at the place and leaving.

Otherwise, from everything I’ve seen in Portugal, anyone claiming mandatory forced treatment exists is arguing in bad faith or has never been there.

Under the auspices of the that due to fleeting motivation, perhaps one of their check ins will be while they’re otherwise inspired to quit/or to get a job.

They focus on the person’s whole behavior, not the substance use in a vacuum.

Eu falo português se você tem mais perguntas.

And the location of that check in depends on the persons needs but is most often either a job centre, a methadone program, or a treatment center.

All they HAVE to do is sign a paper saying they arrived.

That’s the most coercive thing that happens in Portugal.

- the only thing that is ever forced on people is “check-ins,” where they can be made to check-in weekly at whatever the commission finds best suited to them

Such as: someone in very chaotic use has refused every offer of treatment, which they’re allowed to do.

So once a week they have to check in

Hi there! I speak Portuguese. I wrote this piece a few years ago, and have since returned to Portugal to study their system twice.

www.vitalcitynyc.org/articles/lea...

Oh cool a different one than the one I actually paused to fact check before confirming yup, that really did happen

Oh, of course! But until it becomes illegal, which is so highly unlikely, they literally cannot be prosecuted for that conduct. The number of things that seem like crimes — that would be crimes if committed by anyone else — is wild. They can steal your money (asset forfeiture), impersonate cops, etc

The point here is this tactic is legal, so, don’t hold your breath

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I can tell you’re not American by the way you spell defense, but problems of that nature are bound to happen. typically people shoot at police when police breach their door without announcing themselves, not when cops knock + announce. You wouldn’t be insulated from prosecution for shooting them.