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...and it will also stop a lot of the JAILING, which in turn destroys economic opportunity with permanent prison records.

This is huge and much more so that most realize, irrespective of ethnicity.

My oldest son(32 now), trying to do the right thing, was convicted of felony DUI for sleeping in the back of a non-running car. After serving his 90 day jail sentence, he has not been able to work above day labor, minimum wage despite having some, in theory, marketable skills.