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Restorative justice was a stupid attempt to reduce black incarceration rates by playing to the in vogue theories about breaking the truama spiral. It presumes blacks didnt have agency and were caught in a spiral of escalation and if you just talk it out you'd avoid further costs. State administrations loved it because it allowed shrinking the bloating prison and school security budgets and the NGOs promised it would help blacks.
Every crime problem is downstream of the inconvenient fact that crime commission rates are disproportionate and blacks especially complain about being arrested more without considering that they commit crimes that fucking much more often. Rehabilitative/restorative justice makes the VICTIM forgive the attacker and thus removes the crime from the official books.
Actually the solution of making good nigerians beneficiaries of policing bad nigerians has precedent in Europe. Algerians in the French security establishment are especially clear eyed about how fucking shitty Africans are and have no qualms recommending extraterritorial action.
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