And I think what it traces back to is Robert McCullough's apparent failure to indict Darren Wilson who shot and killed Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri in 2014.
There's been this really rapid shift among big city prosecutors really in the last few years. Urban prosecutors, now are talking like defense attorneys. So what are urban prosecutors doing now that could unwind these successes? But that was also coupled with, you know, really sort of much harsher incarceration practices then what are considered, popular, or you know, palatable today.īrian Anderson: Okay.
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Most notably probably the adoption of a broken windows approach within the New York City Police Department. I mean, it was just absolute mayhem and you know, within just a decade, things completely turned around, and I think this was largely due to a combination of things. Subways were covered in graffiti, murders were up in the 2000s per year, there were more than a 100,000 robberies in the city.
I mean, you couldn't go anywhere without being confronted with just rampant crime and disorder. I mean, you know, I think people forget just how bad things were, in the early 1990s in New York. Rafael Mangual: Well, the crime-fighting revolution is what New York City saw happen throughout the 90s into the early 2000s. Seth Barron: So what was the crime-fighting revolution? His latest piece for City Journal is called "'Justice' for whom: left-leaning urban prosecutors are working to undo the success of the crime-fighting revolution." Thanks for joining us, Rafael. Rafael Mangual is Deputy Director of Legal Policy at the Manhattan Institute and a fellow. This is your host for today Seth Barron, associate editor at City Journal. Welcome back to 10 Blocks, the official podcast of City Journal. The conversation with Seth and Rafael begins after this. But regardless of that particular case, the consequences our nation's cities of this shift among prosecutors could mean a lot of trouble ahead. After the announcement, Mayor Rahm Emanuel stood with police Superintendent Eddie Johnson and denounced the decision. If you want a recent example of the widening rift between big city police departments and local prosecutors- earlier this week, Chicago's newly elected state's attorney announced her office would drop all charges against Jussie Smollett, the actor accused of staging his own hate crime assault, which led to a weeks-long investigation by police in addition to a media frenzy. Prosecutors that are dedicated to reducing punishment for crime, increasing oversight on police, and dismantling mass incarceration, among other policy goals generally ranged under the social justice cause. Over the last five years or so, cities from New York to Philadelphia to Chicago have elected a new generation of prosecutors. Coming up on the show today, City Journal's Seth Barron joins Manhattan Institute Fellow Rafael Mangual to talk about the disturbing leftward shift among urban prosecutors across the country. This is Brian Anderson, the editor of City Journal. Brian Anderson: Welcome back to the 10 Blocks podcast.
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