Criminal (In)justice

David Harris

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Sometimes challenging, often disturbing, occasionally absurd, always timely: Criminal Injustice explores the most complex and urgent issues facing the U.S. criminal justice system in conversation with the field's most knowledgeable experts. Professor David Harris and guests take on everything from racial bias to use of force... from surveillance technology to mass incarceration... and from police abuse and misconduct to the astonishing, frequently hilarious misdeeds of "Lawyers Behaving Badly." It's not a lecture hall, and you don't need a law degree to keep up. But you'll walk away from each episode with a deeper, richer understanding of what's wrong with the criminal justice system – and how to fix it.

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Bonus: Progressive Prosecutors in the Crosshairs

Criminal (In)justice

02/16/21 • 7 min

San Francisco DA Chesa Boudin and Los Angeles DA George Gascon are the newest members of a club we've been following for a while: progressive prosecutors elected on ambitious criminal justice reform platforms. Like their counterparts in Chicago, Philadelphia, St Louis, and other cities where voters have demanded sweeping change, Boudin and Gascon are facing fierce pushback from defenders of the status quo.

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02/16/21 • 7 min

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#112 Understanding Rising Suicide Rates Among Police

Criminal (In)justice

01/21/20 • 56 min

Police suicides are on the rise. Just how bad is the problem? Why is it happening, and what can be done to stop it?

Sandy Jo MacArthur is a former Assistant Chief for the Los Angeles Police Department who now coordinates mental health training for all Los Angeles County law enforcement.

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01/21/20 • 56 min

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#148 Criminalizing Black Youth

Criminal (In)justice

11/30/21 • 49 min

The criminal legal system has left us with too little justice, and too much mass incarceration, racial disparities, and lifelong burdens on those it touches. But few groups suffer as much under the system’s burdens as young black people.

How America criminalizes black youth – we discuss it with Professor Kristin Henning, author of “The Rage of Innocence: How American Criminalizes Black Youth.”

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11/30/21 • 49 min

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Bonus: Cue the Grand Jury

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03/04/22 • 11 min

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Grand juries are a handy tool for prosecutors, providing a ready pretext for any potentially controversial decision to bring charges or, as is often the case with police accused of crimes, not bring charges. Do grand jury proceedings serve any purpose, or are they just theater? Dave explains on 90.5 WESA's The Confluence.

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03/04/22 • 11 min

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Bonus: Bad to Worse

Criminal (In)justice

05/10/20 • 28 min

COVID-19 has exposed systemic injustice and institutional failures at every level of society, and nowhere more than in the criminal justice system. Incarcerated people are already being hit hard by the pandemic, but the situation is rapidly deteriorating -- and the effects will be felt beyond the walls of prisons and jails.

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05/10/20 • 28 min

Bonus: COVID-19 and Funding Public Defense

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05/05/20 • 6 min

Louisiana's public defender system is funded by fines from traffic violations. But with far fewer cars on the road due to COVID-19, an already badly underfunded system is at the breaking point.

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05/05/20 • 6 min

Bonus: The Death of George Floyd

Criminal (In)justice

05/29/20 • 29 min

Another horrific episode of police violence, captured on video in Minneapolis, graphically recalls the 2014 killing of Eric Garner by NYPD officers who were never criminally charged in his death. This time the officers may face charges, but prosecuting police is still notoriously difficult. Is there hope for justice?

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05/29/20 • 29 min

Bonus: The Confluence, April 16

Criminal (In)justice

04/19/20 • 8 min

President Trump claims “total authority” to override governors and end their stay-at-home orders, yet again raising the question: can he do that? No, as Dave explains on 90.5 WESA’s The Confluence, he cannot.

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04/19/20 • 8 min

Read This: Let the People Go

Criminal (In)justice

05/14/20 • 5 min

Recommended reading on how COVID-19 is impacting incarcerated populations and what must be done to avoid catastrophe: "Let the People Go" by Joseph Margulies in the Boston Review.

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05/14/20 • 5 min