Groups that supported decriminalization, which also included the American Civil Liberties Union, cited "Broken Windows" which relied on the argument that enforcement of minor offenses could reduce instances of major crime, instead resulted in a disproportionately criminalized population and failed to increase overall safety.
At the same time, the federal government was in denial of the rapid spread of the HIV epidemic and was deeply entrenched in the war on drugs, which further criminalized nonviolent marginalized populations across the country.
Unlike in persons with EVD, historically criminalized and marginalized populations carry a disproportionately higher risk for HIV infection.
But as we criminalize our population and fill jails at an unsettling rate, we move down the path to institutionalized intolerance.
But once you criminalize a population, few people ask questions.
Yet over the past eight years, U.S. policies have sought to criminalize this population, raid their homes and workplaces, suspend their civil liberties, put them in chains, and ultimately deport them.
Vowing to root out all signs of lawlessness at all levels of society, Castro in effect criminalized the entire population.
While Steeves has tried to explain away his wife's racist comments, his own policy proposals for a "safer downtown" Winnipeg seem to be drawn from the same misinformed well, focusing on "reducing crime" and further criminalizing already marginalized populations by "ban[ning] boulevard begging".
In this blog, I have shared with you before some of the concerns around the changes to the way the Fund will distribute grants through the New Funding Model given what a critical role Global Fund grants have played in the region in achieving significant breakthroughs in prevention and treatment for a population that is criminalized and marginalized.
"The Free Gay India campaign is aimed at the law which is criminalizing the homosexual population in India," he explains.
