Note from Rachel 11/5: Tough on Crime Politics is Alive and Well

The Counsel

Some Spider, Inc.

Politics, News

4.6 • 848 Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2024

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Rachel Barkow is the Charles Seligson Professor of Law at NYU School of Law and the Faculty Director of the Zimroth Center on the Administration of Criminal Law at NYU. From 2013 to 2019, she served as a Member of the United States Sentencing Commission. From 2010 to 2020, she was a member of the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office Conviction Integrity Policy Advisory Panel and co-chaired Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s transition committee on police accountability in 2021. She is also amongst the most cited legal scholars of all time. For a transcript of Rachel’s note and the full archive of contributor notes, head to CAFE.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:29.9	Hey folks, Rachel here.
0:33.9	Here's a recording of my latest cafe note,
0:36.2	Tough on Crime Politics is alive and well.
0:38.9	As always, please write to us with your thoughts and questions at letters at cafe.com.
0:48.0	Dear listener, in the summer of 2020, at the height of the George Floyd protests,
0:53.3	it looked like America might be turning a page
0:55.4	on its approach to crime and punishment. Calls to defund the police rang out from across the country,
1:01.0	including from elected officials and those running for office. Many jurisdictions passed
1:05.8	policing reforms and other progressive legislation related to criminal law. It was a sharp departure from the five previous decades,
1:13.8	in which tough-on-crime politics reigns supreme.
1:17.0	Even at the time, some on the political left were cautioning
1:20.7	against using defund the police as a slogan
1:23.1	or going too far with a message that seemed weak on crime.
1:27.1	By the time of President Biden's
1:28.9	first state of the union address, it was clear the tide had turned. Biden declared to bipartisan
1:34.8	applause that we should fund the police. If one needed further proof that tough on crime
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