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Brooklyn DA's Manifesto: Over-Correcting for Past?

By RICHARD STEIER
Posted 3/25/19

When Roy Richter was asked March 20 about Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez’s “Justice 2020” plan for transforming how his office handles criminal justice, the Captains Endowment Association President’s summation was, “Oh, let’s not prosecute anybody?”

It may have sounded like an oversimplification of the DA’s vision of the kind of prosecutors who would “break from the failed policies of the past, and look for different—and smarter—ways to carry out their responsibilities.”

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