Welcome back to the Ten Blocks podcast. This is Teddy Kupfer, an associate editor of City Journal.

I'm introducing this week's special episode, which is a panel discussion featuring Tom Hogan,

a CJ contributor and the former District Attorney of Pennsylvania's Chester County,

Jim Quinn, a longtime official in the former number two of the Queens District Attorney's Office,

and Rafael Mangual,

a contributing editor of CJ, senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, and the head of research

for MI's policing and public safety initiative. These three recently spoke in a panel discussion

breaking down the meaning of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's new approach to his office.

Bragg released a memo calling on prosecutors to refrain from prosecuting those who resist arrest,

trespass, or engage in prostitution, reducing charges for whole categories of crimes,

and cutting sentences for major violent crimes in most circumstances.

Please enjoy the episode and thank you for listening to the 10 Blocks podcast.

Good afternoon and welcome to another Manhattan Institute eventcast brought to you by our

new policing and public safety initiative.

Before we get going, I want to just quickly remind everyone watching that during today's event,

you should feel free to send us your questions as they come to you through the comment function of whatever platform

you're watching us on. I will do my very best to work in as many questions as I can during

the discussion. The Manhattan Institute's Policing and Public Safety Initiative, for those

of you who don't know, was launched to have a meaningful impact on criminal justice policy debates, not just in New York,

but throughout the country and not just through intelligence scholarship and commentary, but also

by engaging with and learning from top flight practitioners whose expertise has been derived

from their experience. And today's panel is going to be another really good example of that.

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