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Hi, and welcome back to the Carol Markowitz Show on IHeart Radio. My guest today is Rafael Manguel.

Rafael is a Nick O'Neill Fellow and head of research for the Manhattan Institute's Policing and Public Safety Initiative, a contributing editor of City Journal and the author of the fantastic 2022 book, Criminal Injustice. Hi, Raphael. So nice to

have you on. So great to be with you. Always been a big thing for works. I've always been a big fan

of your work as well. We run into each other at events. But I kind of feel like I don't know

enough about how you got into this world and what made you become a crime fighter.

Yeah, it's, you know, it's a question that I've gotten a few times. And, you know, it was a very

circuitous route, I will say. I'm not your sort of typical think tank scholar. You know,

my father was a was an NYPD detective. I think that had a lot to do with it, you know, growing up in 1980s and 90s, New York City.

Crime was on everybody's minds.

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