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“Embattled” is a word that multiple news stories have used to describe St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner, who announced her resignation Thursday, after she was accused of mismanaging her office by the state attorney general and contempt of court by a frustrated judge.
Miriam Aroni Krinsky worked as a prosecutor in Los Angeles County in the 1980s and 1990s as the war on drugs was waged. Mandatory minimum sentences and tough-on-crime laws sent prison populations soaring and ripped apart families and communities. Krinsky thought that change was needed—and that it could come from prosecutors.
Progressive prosecutors are facing republicans who blame them for crime, but what do the facts say? How can reform district attorneys push back on false media narratives that progressive policies make communities less safe?
During interrogation police have used shackling, lies, threats and coercion to get false confessions.
District attorneys in five of Texas' largest counties criticized Gov. Abbott's order to treat gender-affirming care as "child abuse."