San Fran City Govt’s Response to Rising Crime Rate: Change ‘Convicted Felon’ to ‘Justice-Involved Pe

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San Fran City Govt’s Response to Rising Crime Rate: Change ‘Convicted Felon’ to ‘Justice-Involved Person’

Crime industry welcomes "person first" terminology

Andrew Stiles - August 21, 2019 3:35 PM

San Francisco is a city in decline. The cartoonish wealth of Silicon Valley surrounds an urban landscape beset by rampant homelessness and the highest property-crime rate in the country. Also, poop.

Local officials are doing everything in their power to confront the city's challenges, for example, by targeting a "racist" mural of George Washington at a high school bearing the founding father's name. They are intent on doing something about all the crime as well, just not in the traditional way that most cities confront crime.

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors proposed new language guidelines to re-shape the way people talk about those in the crime industry. Words such as "felon," "offender," and "convict" would be replaced by "person first" terminology. Under the proposal, a convicted criminal would be referred to as a "formerly incarcerated person," or "justice-involved individual," or even a "returning resident."

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https://freebeacon.com/blog/san-francisco-crime/

[PeteS in CA]

San Francisco has never been considered part of Silicon Valley (in which I've lived for >40 years). And this phrase displays the writer's gross ignorance of Silicon Valley: "The cartoonish wealth of Silicon Valley ...". That phrase is so vacuous that I wonder if he's ever been within 400 miles (the approximate distance from LAX to south San Jose) of Silicon Valley.

[PeteS in CA]

Anyway, Andrew Stiles' ignorance of California aside ...

Euphemism had a one-night hook up with Prolixity and this silliness is their bastard child. Bureaucrats are likely to be too lazy to use a paragraph worth of gobbledygoo to say, "A recently released felon on probation got arraigned for stealing a car and is in jail because (s)he couldn't post bail."