{"id":598274,"date":"2021-07-20T16:20:53","date_gmt":"2021-07-20T20:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=598274"},"modified":"2021-07-20T16:21:02","modified_gmt":"2021-07-20T20:21:02","slug":"watch-criminal-justice-reform-doesnt-necessarily-mean-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-criminal-justice-reform-doesnt-necessarily-mean-better\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: Criminal Justice \u2018Reform\u2019 Doesn\u2019t Necessarily Mean \u2018Better\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwatch-criminal-justice-reform-doesnt-necessarily-mean-better%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=598274&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Screen-Shot-2021-07-20-at-3.04.24-PM.png?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>In the latest five-minute video for PragerU, Manhattan Institute fellow Rafael Mangual talks about \u201cprogressive prosecutors\u201d and their failure to deter crime in America\u2019s largest cities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Mangual explains that \u201cthe role of the prosecutor is to pursue justice\u201d \u2014 namely, by enforcing the laws passed by the representatives of the people. Enforcing the law discourages future crimes, while also providing some degree of solace to its victims.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThis is the basis of civil society,\u201d says Mangual. \u201cBut over the last several years, a growing number of American cities have elected prosecutors who are deemphasizing enforcement.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In the interest of \u201creform,\u201d many prosecutors selectively uphold the law. \u201cTheir motive, seemingly well-intentioned, is that criminals do better when they\u2019re not incarcerated \u2014 that many people who are in jail shouldn\u2019t be there because they don\u2019t present a danger to society.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In Boston, Suffolk County District Attorney Rachel Rollins stopped prosecuting crimes like trespassing, stealing less than $250, destruction of property, and drug possession with the intent to distribute. Over in Los Angeles, George Gasc\u00f3n actively bars prosecutors pursuing sentencing enhancements for gang-related offenses and \u201cthird strike\u201d cases.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The same pattern plays out in St. Louis, Baltimore, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Orlando, Portland, San Antonio, and other major cities, says Mangual.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cIn fact,\u201d explains Mangual, \u201cmore than 40 million Americans now live in cities with so-called \u2018progressive\u2019 prosecutors. That\u2019s a lot of \u2018reform\u2019 happening outside the institutions designed to make the law: state, county, and city legislatures.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>For several reasons, this is cause for major concern. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>First of all, \u201ca single official shouldn\u2019t be able to sidestep the political process and decide what laws to enforce or not.\u201d But also, \u201cthese changes aren\u2019t making our cities safer.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>George Gasc\u00f3n\u2019s ban on third-strike sentencing may have led to serious missed benefits for deterring crime. In 2007, economists studied the effects of California\u2019s three-strikes law and revealed a 17% to 20% reduction in the felony arrest rate among those who already had two strikes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Meanwhile, for curtailing pretrial detention, the data from New York and Chicago indicate that increasing the number of defendants out on the street pre-trial will lead to more crimes from that population.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201c\u2018Reform\u2019 doesn\u2019t necessarily mean \u2018better,\u2019\u201d says Mangual. \u201cIt can often mean worse. In the case of progressive prosecutors, perhaps much worse.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>WATCH:<\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Fewer Penalties, More Crime | 5 Minute Video\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BeluhNNyCwk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span>member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the latest five-minute video for PragerU, Manhattan Institute fellow Rafael Mangual talks about \u201cprogressive prosecutors\u201d and their failure to deter crime in America\u2019s largest cities.Mangual explains that \u201cthe role &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-598274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=598274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}