What Really Lowers Crime
It turns out income, housing, and access to care stand a much better chance of creating public safety than other strategies---all while ensuring communities are safer, healthier, and more able to thrive.
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Across the US, cities, counties, and some states are re-evaluating the use of cash bail.
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It is critical that Americans also acknowledge that powerful institutions inflict violence on people presumed innocent under the law every day. As it stands, the system is directly at odds with the idea that Americans are “innocent until proven guilty”, inflicting severe and traumatizing punishment long before a person sees a jury of their peers.
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In its current form, the American carceral system robs people of opportunity, tears families apart, and destabilizes entire communities. Unlike police, prisons, and prosecutors, public defenders are uniquely situated to empower those facing the criminal legal system, shrink the system itself by reducing incarceration, and transform our approach to public safety.
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