In the South, Confederate monuments have come tumbling down.

Meanwhile it got less attention, but in the middle of the night, miles north of the Mason

Dixon Line in the city of Philadelphia, another monument got haught away.

It's a bronze statue of a legendary Philadelphia figure named Frank Rizzo.

Rizzo was a beat cop in the 1940s, became police commissioner in 1967, and served two terms

as mayor in the 70s.

Rizzo was a notorious law and order man.

He and his police department became known nationwide for brutality and racism.

Here he is in 1967 from an NBC News report.

You act properly, we act properly.

You get tough, we get tougher.

And that's the answer, I know of no other way to do it.

He once said, if the prisons are crowded, if we need more prisons, let's build them.

Frank Rizzo's legacy still cast a long shadow over the city of Philadelphia, which, by the

way, is my adopted home.

With these days, the city is known for a very different approach to criminal justice.

We really are a danger to the status quo's mad love of mass incarceration.

We really are, we should be.

I'm Tremaine Lee, and this is Into America.

Today I talk with Philadelphia district attorney Larry Cravner, the city's top prosecutor.

He's one of several DA's elected across the country recently who want to reform the system

from the inside.

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