Leaving the Am Soc of #Criminology (#ASC2022) mtg and feeling struck by the popularity of a false dichotomy.

In a neg health impacts of #police contact panel, an attendee seemed to undermine the importance of the work by arguing that reducing #policecontact has an inevitable neg health impact on society through an increase in crime.

Suggesting that addressing victimization by the police and others are opposing goals is not a pragmatic recognition of a fundamental problem, it *IS* the problem.

I like how different #conference social media posts can be.

#ASC2022 posts I've seen are heavy on social parts & topics of individual talks. Yet #ABCT2022 seems to have drawn broader posts: people sharing themes they've observed across the conference at large.