A Day in the Life of a Crime Reporter (with the New York Post's Joe Marino)
City Journal Audio
Manhattan Institute
4.7 • 657 Ratings
🗓️ 27 May 2026
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Award-winning crime journalist Joe Marino joins the podcast for a candid, in-depth conversation on crime, policing, and public safety in New York City. Marino examines the complex issues shaping today's justice system, from criminal-justice reform and evolving policing strategies to recidivism, media narratives, and the human behavior behind the headlines. Drawing on years of frontline reporting, he offers sharp insights into how policy, politics, data, and public perception collide—and what it all means for crime and accountability in America's largest city.
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| 0:00.0 | Soft on crime and tough on crime. They are two sides of the same coin. |
| 0:16.3 | You accomplish nothing without at least identifying what the underlying condition is. |
| 0:24.3 | See, I disagree. |
| 0:25.8 | Yeah. |
| 0:26.5 | I disagree. |
| 0:27.3 | All right. |
| 0:27.5 | So here's where I disagree, which is when you say accomplish, I think you have something |
| 0:33.5 | specific in your head. |
| 0:35.8 | When I think of what the criminal justice system exists to accomplish, |
| 0:40.1 | the primary aim, the thing that it's best at, the thing that it can reliably do, is physically |
| 0:46.5 | incapacitate people. By putting them in a cell, you stop them from injuring the community. |
| 0:54.2 | They may commit crimes within the facility, but they can no longer injuring the community. They may commit crimes within the facility, |
| 0:56.1 | but they can no longer injure the community when they are inside. |
| 0:59.8 | Taking people out of operation. |
| 1:01.5 | Right. |
| 1:01.8 | And so the question is, is what's the payoff? |
| 1:04.3 | And the way that you figure that out is you have to have a sense of the degree |
| 1:08.1 | to which these individuals are offending or would be offending if they were |
| 1:12.5 | free. Now, we have lots of studies on this that have sort of estimated the propensity of the median |
| 1:18.4 | prisoner to offend. And right now, the prevailing estimate in the criminological literature is about |
| 1:23.8 | eight index felonies a year for the median person in state prison. |
| 1:32.3 | You know, some of the older estimates that I think were probably better because they were using better survey data. |
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