Tahanie Aboushi: Difference between revisions

Aboushi announced her campaign for [[New York County District Attorney]] in January 2020. Aboushi's platform outline her plans not to prosecute offenses that result from poverty, mental illness, substance abuse, or sex work.<ref name=x>{{Cite web|title=Tahanie's Vision for Manhattan District Attorney's Office|url=https://www.tahanieforda.com/vision|access-date=2021-03-29|website=Tahanie for DA|language=en-US}}</ref> She also wants to refuse to prosecute [[gang]] [[conspiracy]] charges, refuse to seek sentences longer than 20 years, refuse the use of databases like the [[DNA]] and Gang database, refuse to prosecute [[driving without a license]], [[disorderly conduct]], any [[drug possession]] or drug use or drug manufacturing or sale, and some theft charges, cut the Manhattan DA budget by 50%, and reduce the incarcerated population by 80% or more.<ref name=x/><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://filtermag.org/manhattan-district-attorney-orlins-aboushi/|title=Which Remaining Manhattan DA Candidates Stand Out on Drugs?|date=February 2, 2021}}</ref> If elected, Aboushi would be the first woman, Muslim, and nonwhite candidate to hold the office (six of the seven other contenders would break at least one such barrier.)<ref>{{Cite news|last=Bromwich|first=Jonah E.|date=2021-03-27|title=8 Candidates Compete for a Job That May Involve Prosecuting Trump|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/25/nyregion/manhattan-district-attorney-election.html|page=A19|access-date=2021-03-29|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>