Bernie Kerik: Don't weaponize the criminal justice system
John Solomon Reports
John Solomon
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🗓️ 3 March 2020
⏱️ 39 minutes
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The ex-NYPD commissioner says his time in prison has taught him a lot about incarceration, recidivism, and where to go next.
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| 0:00.0 | All right, folks, happy Super Tuesday and welcome to a new edition of John Solomon Reports, |
| 0:10.0 | the podcast from Just the News. |
| 0:11.9 | Yes, we're a week old at JustTheNews.com and check us out. |
| 0:16.2 | We're breaking all sorts of stories on Ukraine and Russia, inside the Trump White House, |
| 0:21.9 | big interviews, breaking news. |
| 0:24.5 | It's a site that gives you facts without any of the opinion or point of view that too much |
| 0:28.7 | of my colleagues in the news media are inflicting upon the American public these days. |
| 0:34.0 | And we're going to inflict a great interview on you today. |
| 0:37.3 | That's right. |
| 0:38.3 | We've got Bernie Kerak, the former commissioner of the NYPD, the former head of prisons |
| 0:43.0 | for New York City, and a man who then went to prison himself and came out and became |
| 0:48.0 | a champion of criminal justice reform. |
| 0:50.6 | He was a driving voice in the criminal justice reform, prison reform package that President |
| 0:56.7 | Trump managed to get through Congress. |
| 0:59.1 | And he's here today to talk to us about some extraordinary new ideas on where the criminal |
| 1:03.6 | justice reform movement goes next. |
| 1:06.3 | And what impact it's having around America, particularly in minority communities who are |
| 1:10.6 | now finding a connection to President Trump as a result of seeing their relatives freed |
| 1:16.0 | from prison, getting rehabilitated, turning into productive citizens, again, inside their |
| 1:20.9 | communities. |
| 1:22.4 | This is going to be a great interview. |
| 1:24.0 | There's a lot of personal experience that Bernie Kerak brings to this issue, having |
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