{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","altText":"Comment attachment by Anonymous","alternateName":"9pm-M5KGXwkr9JT3.mp4","caption":"","contentUrl":"https://lucycraig.blog/media/642/raw","datePublished":"2026-10-25T23:37:17+00:00","description":"","encodingFormat":"video/mp4","identifier":"642","isAccessibleForFree":true,"machineReadable":{"json":"https://lucycraig.blog/media/642/index.json","markdown":"https://lucycraig.blog/media/642/index.md"},"name":"Comment attachment by Anonymous","ocrStatus":"not_applicable","ocrText":"","text":"[00:00] Hi. My name is Davy McCray. I studied human services and sociology with a minor in women,\n[00:13] gender and sexuality in college. But beyond what I've learned in school, I know a lot more\n[00:21] people I've known personally. I've known many survivors over the years and\n[00:31] they have to, most of them have two main things in common. One is that they have\n[00:41] ongoing mental health issues that I can tell just from interacting\n[00:50] with them. A lot of them have ongoing depression and self-esteem problems, even if it's years\n[00:59] after it happened. And the other thing most of them have in common is that they got very\n[01:07] little if any justice. One of my closest friends, Ow, Ow was told by a district attorney that\n[01:23] no one would believe her because she wasn't the perfect victim. I've also known people\n[01:32] who got a restraining order but no justice beyond that, and I was actively trying to help keep\n[01:42] people safe from an abuser who had hurt many people in Cortland, gotten away with it and had\n[01:51] come to Ithaca and started doing the same thing here. I always learned that the whole\n[02:00] point of the criminal justice system was that the punishment was supposed to fit the crime,\n[02:07] and when the crime affected its victim for years, sometimes decades after it was committed,\n[02:19] it completely doesn't fit the crime if the punishment is a restraining or\n[02:27] Erder with nothing else or or only a few months in jail or or having to write an essay\n[02:39] We need to do better and that's why I'm expressing support for the resolution to\n[02:46] and for an independent investigation into the practices of this DA's office","thumbnailUrl":"https://lucycraig.blog/media/642/thumb.webp","transcriptSegments":[{"end":13.44,"start":0.0,"text":"Hi. My name is Davy McCray. I studied human services and sociology with a minor in women,"},{"end":21.88,"start":13.44,"text":"gender and sexuality in college. But beyond what I've learned in school, I know a lot more"},{"end":31.32,"start":21.88,"text":"people I've known personally. 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But beyond what I've learned in school, I know a lot more\n[00:21] people I've known personally. I've known many survivors over the years and\n[00:31] they have to, most of them have two main things in common. One is that they have\n[00:41] ongoing mental health issues that I can tell just from interacting\n[00:50] with them. A lot of them have ongoing depression and self-esteem problems, even if it's years\n[00:59] after it happened. And the other thing most of them have in common is that they got very\n[01:07] little if any justice. One of my closest friends, Ow, Ow was told by a district attorney that\n[01:23] no one would believe her because she wasn't the perfect victim. I've also known people\n[01:32] who got a restraining order but no justice beyond that, and I was actively trying to help keep\n[01:42] people safe from an abuser who had hurt many people in Cortland, gotten away with it and had\n[01:51] come to Ithaca and started doing the same thing here. I always learned that the whole\n[02:00] point of the criminal justice system was that the punishment was supposed to fit the crime,\n[02:07] and when the crime affected its victim for years, sometimes decades after it was committed,\n[02:19] it completely doesn't fit the crime if the punishment is a restraining or\n[02:27] Erder with nothing else or or only a few months in jail or or having to write an essay\n[02:39] We need to do better and that's why I'm expressing support for the resolution to\n[02:46] and for an independent investigation into the practices of this DA's office","url":"https://lucycraig.blog/media/642"}