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The Breakdown with Shaun King

Ep. 62 - Local Media Supports Mass Incarceration

The Breakdown with Shaun King

The North Star

News, Society & Culture

4.812.6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2019

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Voters in America’s largest cities are voting for radical criminal justice reform. City by city, we are electing progressive district attorneys and ousting conservative candidates who perpetuate the systems behind mass incarceration. But we are now seeing something new as state governments systematically strip away the powers of DAs. In today’s episode, Shaun breaks down who exactly is helping conservative politicians limit the power of progressive DAs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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All over the country, voters in America's largest cities are deciding that they want to reform the justice system from the inside out.

0:32.0

And they're doing that in great part. form the justice system from the inside out.

0:33.2

And they're doing that in great part

0:35.7

by ousting horrible district attorneys

0:38.6

and replacing them with brilliant new ones.

0:41.6

It's happened in Philly, it happened in St. Louis and Boston and

0:44.7

San Antonio and Dallas, but suddenly in each of those places the state

0:50.1

governments after allowing district attorneys to run the local justice system. State governments are suddenly trying to

0:53.0

to run the local justice systems for over 100 years.

0:57.0

State governments are suddenly trying to steal control back

1:01.0

and limit the power of the district attorney.

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And you're never going to guess who's helping them.

1:07.0

Listen, if we didn't live in the age of Trump,

1:10.0

this story would be a national scandal.

1:12.0

Gonna unpack it, explain it. This story would be a national scandal.

1:13.0

Gonna unpack it and explain it and then tell us what we can do about it.

1:17.0

Let's dig in.

1:18.0

This is Sean King and you are listening to

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The breakdown.

1:23.4

The breakdown.

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