The baby boomers were born from 1946-1964. Gen Xers we’re born from 1965-1980. So boomers born in the late 40’s and early 50’s definitely had a lot of kids born from the mid-to-late 60’s through 1980.

Hi again! I was thinking about this comment on an older thread while writing this. In your case, I wonder if contacting the party itself would have any impact.

God damm, why wasn’t this rectified years ago. The bar for Civil forfeiture should be “beyond a reasonable doubt.” Herion dealers should not be able to keep their cash or cars purchased with drug money but having such a low bar on the books leads to cases like that of motel caswell in Tewksbury

I understand the sentiment but places like Massachusetts often ride high on the smug “we aren’t like those backwards states.” And in some regards, it’s true. But in others, we are no better than the backwoods good ole-boys of the Deep South…especially when it comes to the criminal justice system. Look at incarceration rates by race in this state and you can see a trend. For a state not necessarily known for its racial diversity, it sure does lock up a hell of a lot of black and brown people.

If you’re interested, there’s a great book called “When a Heart Turns Rock Solid” by Timothy Black that profiles the lives of three Puerto-Rican brothers who grew up in Springfield in the ‘80’s and ‘90s. It really pulls the curtain back on “liberal” Massachusetts and it’s garbage-ass policies that have truly decimated entire communities and generations of families.

I think a lot of people are going to realize in the next couple months that the MA legislature is the height of complacency.

Easy to understand. The point is there is no reason to wait. You can solve the problem locally. We do t have to sit back and wait for Washington to do everything for us.

It’s not being solved locally here because democrats equally don’t want to solve it. This isn’t a republican exclusive thing.

They work with copper and pex. CPVC is what's used for potable water but I don't have any experience with that. OD on pex and copper is the same but I believe CPVC is different, so probably doesn't work there.

Most of my house is copper but one section is pex and the transition was done with Sharkbites almost 10 years ago. It's still fine.

Oh right! I forgot that part about the assets being the guilty ones. So insane.

It's a little wonky. The men can be treated as innocent and the evidence be treated as associated with a criminal activity still. Civil asset forfeiture has a separate standard of proof and even a separate trial.

So weirdly, the money can be found guilty. Or more accurately "more probable than not that it was associated with criminal activity." Which I'm told can be represented by a greater than 50% chance. Whereas guilt in the criminal context is closer to 99% (some lawyers put a closer to 85%, it just depends on your definition of reasonable doubt).

I think that’s what happened? For all non violent convictions which were affected by certain years at the two labs with the two corrupt workers

The only fair way to do it is retrials without the tainted evidence. And it looks like the state decided not to retry a lot of the cases. Okay ... Well, those people should be considered "Not Guilty" now.

Absolutely. And the coverup went higher up the food chain. AND people are essentially forced j to plea deals, regardless of guilt, so they system is rigged even without false or possibly contaminated results.

Guilty until proven innocent, but even then you don’t get your money and belongings back

I contacted James Arciero about it almost a year ago. This was his office's response:

>Civil asset forfeiture seems to be an issue whose time has come and gone. We do not see any momentum for its increased use as a tool of law enforcement.

Unfortunately he had no primary challenger last election. Plus I took it to mean that he doesn't really have the pull in the statehouse to get anything done about it.

“Innocent until proven guilty” really doesn’t exist in the US and hasn’t for a long time.

“Guilty unless proven wealthy” is closer

We need both.

If you want to change our civil forfeiture laws, contact your local & state representatives. Find your State legislator It's the only way it will ever change.

Which is why single family zoning needs to be eliminated in greater Boston.

This statement just shows you have no idea what was going on in these situations. Annie had a crush on the DA so she was dry labbing test results to help put away defendants to get him to like her...and Sonja was using lab reagent standards to get high at work.

Narrator: They don't.

Hi, insurance adjuster. You’re 100% at fault for a rear end collision. As everyone else pretty much listed, failing to yield, following too closely etc. your rates will go up because you’re at fault, but it depends on how much in damages were paid out in correlation to how many points you’ll get.

Right?? It was still cool back in the 80s when I moved there but it was down on its luck and people were poor and working class and housing was in really bad shape, but cheap.

Well it's under 1000sq ft dump. That's basically apartment. Someone could buy it to build a bigger home. You can get much better apartment in that size.

The idea that Somerville would ever be used in a sentence like the one above would have been incomprehensible to me when we moved here.

I keep looking at Framingham. I've noticed those dumps. 1379 Concord St just had a 25k drop. Now it's valued at 425. down from 500 in November. I'm guessing it will sell on or around 375. The appetite for housing seems to fall off once you hit $350/sqft or higher in this area.