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Future Prosecution and the Limits of Urban Legal Systems
As urban legal systems confront massive backlogs, declining prosecution resources, and fundamental questions about the purpose of criminal justice, prosecutors face a reckoning about what their role should be. This episode examines how prosecutors are reconsidering their strategies, analyzing emerging movements toward decriminalization, diversion programs, and alternatives to prosecution that challenge traditional assumptions about the prosecutor's mission. We reconstruct conversations among prosecutors about whether pursuing low-level drug offenses serves justice, whether incarceration…
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