Colorado District Attorney George Brauchler, one of the more disgusting prosecutors of our time, interrupted his busy tweeting-during-court schedule on Friday to tell the world that mass incarceration doesn’t exist. No, really.
Here’s the Tweet:
When I responded in disbelief, Brauchler blocked me. He did the same to other journalists, as well. (Always great when our elected officials block members of the press!) He still hasn’t deleted his original comment.
It’s unfathomable that Brauchler, head prosecutor of Colorado’s 18th Judicial District, would proclaim publicly that mass incarceration is a myth. Truly, truly unfathomable. Never mind the fact that America has the highest incarceration rate on the planet; never mind the fact that our nation holds only 5 percent of the world’s population but almost 25 percent of the world’s prison population; never mind that the number of people incarcerated has increased 500 percent—yes, 500 percent!—in just 40 years; never mind that we still cycle 11 million people in and out of jail per year.
None of that matters to Brauchler. Because all of those are individuals, you see. And therefore there just can’t be any wide-scale dynamics at play. This man—an attorney, a law professor, and an elected official in charge of people’s lives day after day—would literally have you believe that small-scale incidents can’t possibly have large-scale impact.
It is unbelievable what people will tell themselves to justify their own misconceptions and misdeeds.
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