Happy Birthday, Community Justice Center!

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The controversial Community Justice Center, a special court that addresses low-level crimes and can directly refer defendants to social services, recently completed its first year of operations. How was this milestone celebrated?

• Special promotion: Commit six quality-of-life crimes, the seventh one is free

• Gavin Newsom gloated twice as much as usual for a Tuesday

• People peed on the sidewalk just a little less

• All the people whose lives the court has turned around got together to talk about how much less fun they're having now

• Court sentenced someone to death, just to do it

• Meaningless press conference

• A former homeless alcoholic was given a dehumanizing job with a company that regards him as a walking tax credit

• Court was held outside on the playground

• Convicts now get community service credit for stalking Chris Daly

• Urine samples tainted at crime lab. Case dismissed!

• The center's funding was cut