00:04I rejected a long time ago that the only purpose of the criminal justice system is to punish.
00:13Voters in Philadelphia have chosen a progressive as their new district attorney.
00:17The most stunning upset.
00:18Descending cortical shockwaves across the country.
00:21I am a career civil rights lawyer.
00:23The only attorney in the history of this city to overturn 800 convictions by corrupt police officers.
00:29Krasner is a hero to some and a bum to others.
00:32He's never been pro-law enforcement.
00:34If things aren't working from the inside, you need to bring someone from the outside.
00:38What do you think he's trying to accomplish?
00:41Anarchy.
00:43At this point, there are more people of color in prison or on parole than in slavery at the end
00:50of the Civil War.
00:53Larry is bringing in criminologists, activists.
00:56Everything we do, steady fire, heavy resistance.
00:59This will be controversial.
01:02Policies that focus on rehabilitation and second chances as opposed to punishment.
01:08We're in Philadelphia and there's murders and robberies.
01:11Community services may be not appropriate.
01:13This DA's office has been too close and too cozy with the fraternal order of police.
01:20How corrupt do you think this city is?
01:21Anybody who's dealt with this office knows there are secrets.
01:24We need to find out where the secrets are.
01:27You've got to be kidding me.
01:29What is it?
01:29It's all about police officers.
01:34There has not been prosecution of police misconduct by this DA's office for 30 years.
01:42Right now, Philly police officers think the scales are suddenly weighed down in favor of criminals.
01:49If you're too corrupt to testify in court, you're too corrupt to patrol the streets.
01:53Who was DA when there were dozens of people shot over the weekend?
01:56I was.
01:57We're tied and we want our neighborhood back!
01:59When you try to make the right decisions, I'll live with the rest.
02:02There's a meaningless, endless cycle.
02:05A cycle of trauma, a cycle of pain.
02:07Some of the effects can be irreversible.
02:09There's no mass incarceration.
02:11That's utterly ridiculous.
02:12Not one cop is going to tell you that he's on our team.
02:15Well, I suggest you don't shoot unarmed people in the back.
02:18The DA's office is not a place a social experiment should be conducted.
02:23You don't have to destroy the system to get the results you want.
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