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We’ve talked a lot about criminal justice reform, but this week, we’re discovering how it’s actually put into practice. Adam is joined by Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascón to talk about the DA’s path to becoming a reformer, the nationwide backlash against criminal justice reform, and how to balance the needs of the people most affected by over-policing with the demands of those fearful of crime.
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Voters across the country are rejecting your soft on crime policies! They cost lives!
i think life without possibility of parole is just as stupid as the death penalty
youre just trying to make yourself feel better at that point while producing worse outcomes
if you think theyll never be better then put that to the test
people act as if parole is some guaranteed thing but no its highly scrutinized
and denying them that chance means youve already determined their life is forfeit you just dont want to feel icky with blood on your hands
like really youll never reconsider the decision no matter how much change there is?
Very interesting! However listening to this only I very clearly heard Kermit The Frog.
Followed you over here from Mastodon.
Yes! Thank you for this video.
I really enjoy this video format (over podcast). There's something about seeing the nonverbal cues from you and the interviewee.
Adam refers to a small uptick in (violent) crime during the pandemic. Murders in Los Angeles were up 94% between 2019 and 2021. The % increase between 2019 and 2020 was the largest ever recorded. Similar in most major metro areas. You don't have to be dishonest to have this conversation, but he chooses to.
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Realize something important about writing. It will change the way you read editorials. These people are trained writers. When they write something like "Is Gascone going to far?" as a question and make that the headline or attention hook, what that really means is NO. He's not going too far, but I as the writer want to make you think he's going too far. If I actually thought he is going too far and could back that up with proof, I'd make the tagline "Gascone has gone too far".
Once you understand that simple rhetorical trickery, you'll suddenly become aware of not just the dishonesty of it, but also of how ridiculously often that trick gets used in political writing. It generally means you are listening to or reading DISHONEST propaganda very much intended to make you believe something the writer or speaker KNOWS FOR A FACT isn't actually true.
If you want to experience a TON of this in a very short period of time, watch ANY single episode of Tucker Carlson. He poses nearly all of the BS that even he knows is garbage in the form of questions.
I feel like they’re not getting to the root of the issue. If you have no money and you have no future you’re more likely to have no money and turn to crime. Or not have the ability to provide financial security and well being for your children.
The problem is that it’s too easy to be trapped below the poverty line.
If your life absolutely sucks and you have mental health issues you don’t have the money to treat for real … yeah, you’re more likely to turn to drugs.
The billionaires aren’t paying into taxes like they should. The IRS can’t or won’t do anything about it. It’s considered fine that the CEO of a company make tens of millions of dollars per year while paying workers minimum wage and forcing them to pee into a bottle while working because they cannot take the time to walk to a restroom.
There are criminals in every walk of life. But MOST are directly tied to a really poor quality of life.
I pay 40% of my annual earnings in taxes. Why do Warren Buffet and the rest get to pay less than 1%? If Jeff Bezos can spend almost a billion dollars on a toy boat, Jeff can pay his workers, who are making Jeff’s companies so profitable for him, more money. If Elon can get high one night and accidentally spend 45 billion dollars on a social media company that has no real revenue stream … don’t you think Elon could be paying each and every person who works for him … 50% more money? Maybe 100% more money? How wildly rich is the family that runs Walmart? Why is Walmart not the highest paying job in that genre of store?
Amazing how you seem to completely gloss over who is actually paying for all these recall efforts. Millions of dollars spent PER attempt PER D.A…. where could all that money be coming from? Could it possibly be coming from the large corporations that run all the for-profit prisons that are losing millions when we reform criminal justice?
Some things should NEVER involve a profit motive, and every single part of the criminal justice system is very much at the top of that list.
I could listen to this DA all day. Not only is he making amazing points and change, his voice is awesome.
12:00 I’ve lived in Oakland and I live near it now. Kids start stealing cars and robbing people at gunpoint at 13. If a kid is arrested over and over and over and clearly the punishment isn’t a deterrent (which it’s supposed to be) then what is the escalation?
The kid stealing from best buy isn’t being tried as an adult.
What do you do about the 15 year old knowingly, and intentionally forcing sex on other kids and recording the little girl being kicked until she’s unconscious then raped with the video posted online?
What if it isn’t the first time he’s done something that if he were a couple years older he’s be removed from society?
It’s great to have rules. Those rules exist to protect people just as much as they exist to punish.
49:00 Lying to the public and hiding under the umbrella of "News" should be a criminal offense.
Even an out of control addict can only affect a a handful of people a community at most… but Fox News and their ilk is affecting our entire society
Our DA Offices typically are contacted by people wanting more punishment. Not less. Be a hero and write your DA and ask for change
"Today on, Adam is a fucking idiot."
Please invite Philly DA Larry Krasner and ex-SF DA Chesa Boudin next. Krasner is the target of a coup attempt for trying to reform Philly's criminal justice system.
Last couple of times I was in court I called my DA Judas.
It's amazing we make any progress in our country having to deal with systemic racism, religious bigotry and corporate corruption. It's like people enjoy living in this hellscape!
Philadelphia's DA has been impeached by the State Legislature in Pennsylvania, they blamed him and his progressive policies for increased crime rates (the crime rates are about the same since 2015 though). In reality its just the republican party trying to find a new way to hold on to power and the whole thing is a test run for whether the state courts will allow them to essentially impeach people for being the political opposition. Republicans have slowly been losing control of the state government since 2010 after almost 30 years of unchallenged hegemony. The attempt hasn't failed though Adam; the impeachment passed in the house and the senate will have a trial in January.
I only do YouTube no podcast
Adam, I love you. You are so underrated.
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fk yeah Adz, i wanna watch ya pretty face spoil shit
"The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself." –Mark Caine
A regretful retiree ain't worth SHIT
can we get some proper subtitles for this because George is WAY too quiet
We have crime because of the environment we have created for our society. People are going without having their basic human needs met. We created a society based on competition. Being human isn’t enough to be valued; we must prove that we deserve to live, and if we can’t, then we are failures that deserve to die. Crime will disappear once we develop a system of resources to replace the monetary system of value that is killing people. One day, being human will be enough, until then, people will fight, kill, and take whatever they can to survive. We have to replace fear with love, and we have to start seeing each other as One.
It gives me a measure of hope for the future that such a rational evidence-based pragmatist can get elected DA of the cultural capital of the United States. I wish him great success.
better to set the guilty free than to lock up the innocent.
Every innocent person wrongfully convicted of a crime means that the actual perpetrator who committed that crime was allowed to run free. The DA who fights overturning a wrongful conviction should be charged with aiding and abetting the original criminal. All authority, DAs, judges, police – those who operate under color of authority, should be held to the highest standards, and hold the most accountability. Mistakes happen, but the gross negligence and outright hostile, criminal conspiracy to "maintain" a wrongful conviction in the face of such mistakes should be punished to the greatest extent in our legal system.
This is the kind of leader we need in ALL positions of power.
"You can do anything, but not everything." –Anonymous
I remember watching you on trutv with my mom when i was a kid! good to see you getting a massive rise to relevance again
What a great conversation, great work
While I agree with a lot of this, the problem is how do you know who will reoffend? How many times have we heard on the news after a major tragedy occurs that the offender was a career criminal, domestic abuser, or had just been released from jail. No one talks about the process of how a criminal is evaluated before release. Some people should flat out not be in society. I hate this 16-year-olds brains aren't developed argument. A 16 year old understands that shooting someone will hurt or kill them just as well as a 19 or 38 year old.
I like how Adam, when doing an ad-read says – in this instance – 'Kachava says' because he likely has no idea whether or not it's actually true, unlike way too many people on Youtube when doing ad-reads.
What a superb use of your platform. I'm keen to see more videos like this.
36:00 Dutch person here. maybe start by calling it footbal first you hand-egg-bal fanatics
I just want to say how much I appreciate that Adam doesn't stop being himself even in ad reads. A lot podcasts and YT videos are doing these kind of supplement ads and none of the others include phrases like "[the manufacturer] states" and "[the manufacturer] claims". He will take these people's money (as well he should), but he won't recount their marketing as fact. 👏
Hello Adam! Love your content and I've been watching you since your CollegHumor days through your Adam Ruins Everything Series to TruTV and I'm so happy you're back to creating content and it's one of the few podcasts I can keep on without zoning out or needing to switch(I have ADHD so that's saying something!). Sometimes I am processing words without the discussion topic in mind, do you think in the future you could integrate segmentation/chapters of the video by the question you ponder to your guests?
This guy is a useless D.A.
Nephew is serving 12 years after taking a plea deal.