#1300 Progressive prosecutors are repairing our injustice system from the ground up
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 28 August 2019
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Air Date: 8/27/2019
Today we take a look at the movement to elect progressives to the position of chief prosecutors in cities across the country in an effort to curb mass incarceration and bring a real understanding of justice back to our justice system
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SHOW NOTES
Ch. 1: Principles to Change Prosecution Part 1 - Criminal Injustice with David Harris - Air Date 3-5-19
Taking a look at some of the "Law and Order" prosecutors who have been replaced recently by more progressive-minded administrators
Ch. 2: The New American Prosecutor with Rashad Robinson - Justice in America - Air Date 9-5-18
Josei and Clint discuss progressive prosecutors with Rashad Robinson.
Ch. 3: Philly's New Progressive DA Is Not Playing Around - The Young Turks - Air Date 3-20-19
Cenk discusses DA Larry Krasner and his work to remove power from the police state in Philadelphia.
Miriam Krinsky discusses the role of mass incarceration in US society and the work to make communities safer without prison.
Ch. 5: The Progressive Prosecutor Wave is Rising - On The Media - Air Date 7-26-19
Brooke discusses the powerful role the prosecutor has in the justice system and what can be done to change mass incarceration.
Shannon Silva discusses what restorative justice can look like as an alternative to mass incarceration
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to this episode of the award winning Best of a Left by Cast in which we shall |
| 0:06.8 | learn about the movement to elect progresses to the position of chief prosecutors in cities |
| 0:12.0 | across the country in an effort to curb mass incarceration and bring a real understanding |
| 0:17.2 | of justice back to our justice system. |
| 0:20.0 | Before we get started, I have just a couple of thoughts I want you to take with you into |
| 0:23.3 | today's topic. |
| 0:25.2 | This is one of those topics that make people freak out because our current status quo |
| 0:31.6 | system of police and prosecutors and jails and prisons and all of that has been so entrenched |
| 0:40.2 | for so long that people have a really, really difficult time imagining another way of doing |
| 0:46.8 | things. |
| 0:47.8 | And it often comes from a simple status quo by us. |
| 0:53.1 | This is how we do things. |
| 0:54.6 | Therefore there's probably a good reason for it. |
| 0:57.3 | Therefore what could we possibly do better? |
| 1:00.7 | And hey, maybe there are some problems, but maybe that's just a few bad apples and so |
| 1:04.8 | forth. |
| 1:05.8 | And so sort of revolutionary thinking, trying to completely reframe and rework our justice |
| 1:14.0 | system, scares people because unlike most other political issues, it's dealing with |
| 1:22.7 | people who are sometimes certainly not always, but sometimes genuinely dangerous. |
| 1:29.2 | And it is scary for people to think that if we were to rework the way our system currently |
| 1:35.7 | functions, would that mean that I personally or my family would be in more real danger? |
| 1:45.0 | So I get that people have concerns. |
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