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We Don’t Have a ‘Mass Incarceration Problem’ in America (and Other Myths About Police and Crime)

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4.81.4K Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2022

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

The tumultuous summer of 2020 prompted Americans to question our country’s criminal justice system. Fueled by death of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, political leaders and the media used these examples and others to attack police, prosecutors, and the rule of law. Today, we know they peddled a false narrative. Unfortunately, we’re seeing the consequences of their policies. It’s thanks to the work of scholars like Rafael Mangual at the Manhattan Institute that we know the truth about criminal justice in the United States. He’s the author of a new book, “Criminal (In)Justice: What the Push for Decarceration and Depolicing Gets Wrong and Who It Hurts Most.” Mangual is the Nick Ohnell fellow and head of research for the Policing and Public Safety Initiative at the Manhattan Institute and a contributing editor of City Journal. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is the Daily Signal Podcast for Monday, August 29th.

0:09.8

I'm Virginia Allen.

0:11.1

And I'm Rob Blueey.

0:12.1

On today's show, I speak with Rafael Mangual of the Manhattan Institute about his new

0:16.1

book Criminal Injustice, What the Push for Decarceration and Deep Policing, gets wrong

0:21.6

and who it hurts most.

0:22.9

We also read your letters to the editor and share a good news story about how a pro-police

0:28.7

organization is serving wounded officers.

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1:21.5

But to mulch you a summer of 2020 prompted Americans to question our country's criminal

1:25.7

justice system, fueled by the deaths of George Floyd and Brianna Taylor, political leaders

1:30.5

and the media use these examples and others to attack police, prosecutors and the rule of

1:35.2

law.

1:36.2

Today we know they peddled a false narrative, unfortunately we are seeing the consequences

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