Is This Progressive Answer to Crime Working?
What A Day
What A Day
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🗓️ 22 June 2024
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Is there a way to send fewer people to prison while lowering crime rates? This week’s How We Got Here unpacks the progressive prosecutor movement—the left’s antidote to tough on crime policies. How have progressive prosecutors fared since the movement began a few years back? How are red states responding? How does the whole debate over progressive prosecutors misunderstand the fundamentals of crime? Max and Josie hold court to figure it all out.
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| 0:00.0 | So Max, if you had to guess, how many cases would you say are filed in state courts every year in America? |
| 0:07.0 | We talk in civil, criminal, both? |
| 0:10.0 | Both. |
| 0:11.0 | Anything and everything. |
| 0:12.0 | Okay, let me see. |
| 0:12.8 | Let's say 10 cases a day in each state, |
| 0:16.0 | so 260 work days a year, that's like 12,000 cases |
| 0:20.0 | over the course of a year. |
| 0:21.2 | The answer max is 100 million. |
| 0:23.6 | A hundred million? |
| 0:25.1 | There are a hundred million cases filed every year. |
| 0:27.9 | That is wild. |
| 0:29.0 | That's everything. |
| 0:29.6 | That's like traffic court and it's everything, okay? |
| 0:32.9 | But it's an enormous number of cases, right? |
| 0:36.2 | There's a lot that happens in state court. |
| 0:37.6 | And of those cases that are in criminal court, |
| 0:39.7 | the vast, vast, vast, vast, vast majority of them |
| 0:41.4 | are handled by prosecutors. |
| 0:43.4 | So over the past few years we've seen a new kind of prosecutor emerge. |
| 0:46.8 | They're called progressive prosecutors. |
| 0:49.2 | And they're basically an antidote to the tough on crime prosecutors that have been |
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