Ep. 79 - About YOUR Mayor and Justice Reform
The Breakdown with Shaun King
The North Star
4.8 • 12.6K Ratings
🗓️ 16 August 2019
⏱️ 17 minutes
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| 0:49.2 | Let's talk for a minute about your mayor and my mayor too for that matter because |
| 0:56.0 | listen the American legal system is amazingly complex it took hundreds of years and millions of laws to build this |
| 1:06.6 | system. It's fundamentally racist. It criminalizes poverty and mental illness and over 10 million people per year |
| 1:16.4 | are caught up in this system. That's more than any country in the history of the world. |
| 1:24.0 | And those of us who are committed to dismantling this system, |
| 1:27.8 | we found that the local district attorney has a huge hand |
| 1:32.4 | in changing the system. |
| 1:34.0 | And so we've helped elect district attorneys all over the country to do great work. |
| 1:38.0 | But today I want to talk with you about your mayor and just how much power and how much sway your local |
| 1:47.4 | mayor often has over the local legal system. Remember, we're not really calling it a justice system because it |
| 1:55.1 | doesn't produce a whole lot of justice. We damn sure aren't calling it the |
| 1:59.3 | criminal justice system because that already criminalizes people long before they've even been |
| 2:04.4 | found guilty of a crime. It's a legal system. So today we're going to dig in to how much influence |
| 2:12.2 | local mayors really have on this system and how we can start |
| 2:17.5 | leveraging them to do so much more. Let's dig in. This is Sean King and you were listening to |
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