Repairing Justice: The Prosecutor

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🗓️ 26 July 2019

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Part one of a series. In this episode, how a movement of progressive prosecutors seeks to transform our justice system.

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0:00.0	On this week's on the media, the changing face of the all-powerful prosecutor.
0:06.0	The DA is even more powerful than judges, criminal defense attorneys, probation, the governor,
0:11.5	the mayor, anyone.
0:12.5	Prosecutors were the good guys, the knights in shining armor.
0:16.1	And then you also see yourself as being in the force of righteousness.
0:20.1	Are you going to start to cut corners?
0:21.9	The notion that any particular police commissioner, mayor, or DA is going to beat their
0:26.3	chest for a minute, and all of a sudden, crime is going to stop.
0:29.5	It's just a fiction.
0:30.5	It's a bunch of nonsense.
0:32.0	I think in a rash dash to wet the appetite of those who are clamoring for criminal justice
0:37.1	reform, they've gone too far.
0:39.2	And I think society's going to suffer.
0:41.4	How can we believe that the system is fair if I'm going to investigate myself if I do something wrong?
0:48.8	And I'm operating essentially in a cloak of darkness.
0:52.0	Once it was about lock them up, now it's about ending mass incarceration.
0:56.9	It's all coming up.
1:00.1	From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.
1:03.6	Bob Garfield is out just one more week.
1:06.2	I'm Brooke Gladstone,
1:07.4	and this clearly has been the week of the prosecutor.
1:12.0	You made a decision not to prosecute, correct?
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