Why is the criminal justice system being replaced by the social justice system? In this episode of Human Events Daily, we cover a special two-part series on the Open Prison Network, a network of local DAs and prosecutors across the U.S. that has systematically overturned hundreds of convictions and sentences across the country.
00:00:34.060Ladies and gentlemen, welcome aboard today's edition of Human Events Daily.
00:00:38.160First up and second up today, we've got a special two-parter, a human events investigation into the social justice now replacing criminal justice across America, the Open Prison Network.
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00:01:05.620Why is the criminal justice system been replaced by the social justice system?
00:01:22.180There's billions of dollars behind it.
00:01:25.040Specifically, millions of dollars that's gone around the country, not just to support groups like the Innocence Project or the Innocence Fraud, as I call them, which works with Kim Kardashian to get convicted murderers off of their sentences.
00:01:40.520Now, we've also got a situation now where a network of local DAs and prosecutors across the country in almost every single American's major city as well as places like Loudoun County, right, Northern Virginia, have systematically gone in and been overturned because this network has gone through and placed millions of dollars throughout the country propping up these essentially pro-criminal prosecutors.
00:02:09.600Now, of course, all of this is done through the auspices of an organization called the Justice and Safety Pact.
00:02:23.440And, of course, they receive a majority of their funding from the Open Society Foundation, which, of course, is donated to majorly by George Soros, everyone's favorite Hungarian billionaire.
00:03:17.380Go and watch, then, some of the videos that have come out talking about bail reform, which led to the bail reform massacre of Waukesha.
00:03:25.560Now, in your opinion, why do you believe that the governor made this move to eliminate cash bail now?
00:03:30.860You know, the governor made a commitment last year that he was going to look at eliminating cash bail.
00:03:37.940There was a groundswell of support for this by activists and advocates for years.
00:03:43.800The End Money Bond Coalition has been pushing for this.
00:03:47.200My office, the state's attorney's office, have been pushing for this.
00:03:49.860And in the wake of what happened with George Floyd and the fact that, you know, we have people like Kyle Rittenhouse, who is an exemplification of what's wrong with the cash bail system.
00:04:01.020Here is a boy who crosses the border with a long arm, shoots and kills two people, and is walking the streets today because someone was able to pay his bail, while at the same time there are people in jails across the country, across this state, who were charged with nonviolent offenses and can't post something as little as $500 to get out.
00:04:21.980And so I think the governor, recognizing those forces at play and really having a true commitment to justice, said, if not now, then when?
00:04:31.480And the Legislative Black Caucus should be applauded for saying that now is the time.
00:04:35.960Let's remember that more than 80 percent of the people in jail have not been convicted of a crime.
00:04:43.000Let's remember that less than 15 percent of the people police take to jail on a felony booking will ever actually be convicted of that felony.
00:04:53.640Let's remember that more than 65 percent of the people who get booked into county jail will be there less than a week.
00:05:02.220So we are not talking about people who are so dangerous that they need to be separated from society for long periods of time.
00:05:08.160The people driving the numbers in the county jail, 65 percent of them, are ordered released in less than a week, right?
00:05:15.800So why do we have the jail population that we have?
00:05:18.500Now I want to give you a couple other statistics.
00:05:20.000About 20 percent of the people in jail are ordered released by a judge with one condition, a monetary payment that they can't afford.
00:05:29.040That's why I've been fighting against money bail.
00:05:31.080That's why when I'm district attorney, I will not allow any of my assistants to put a price tag on freedom.
00:05:36.840People who are too dangerous to be released won't be.
00:05:40.000People who can safely be released will be and will bring the jail population down quickly.
00:05:44.300Now there's also about 10 percent of people in the jail who are waiting to be housed in a drug treatment or mental health treatment facility.
00:05:51.020The new jail that we would build has a price tag of over $200 million.
00:05:54.780Let's invest that money in more humane, more effective alternatives that are in the community,
00:05:59.340working with folks like Taxpayers for Public Safety, Critical Resistance, the community groups that have been leading the fight this whole way.
00:06:05.020I've worked with them before. I'm going to keep doing it as your district attorney. Thank you.
00:06:08.580The bail reform massacre of Waukesha happened because these ridiculous ideas were actually pushed and advanced by this network,
00:06:18.780as well as in the city of Milwaukee, John Chisholm, throughout our country.
00:06:28.560And this violence that's being perpetuated by career criminals, violent criminals inside our major cities is spilling out into the suburbs.
00:07:44.280And go listen to what they say when they get put into office.
00:07:49.300And then go look, actually look at the consequences of their actions.
00:07:54.560Philadelphia's top lawyer, Larry Krasner, announced a major policy change today.
00:07:59.260Starting today, the district attorney's office will no longer seek cash bail for a number of lower-level offenses.
00:08:06.160Krasner claims the new policy will protect the city's poor communities.
00:08:09.160Do not imprison the poor in the United States for the so-called crime of poverty.
00:08:17.180This new cash bail policy will not only save the taxpayers' money in the poorest of the 10 largest cities in the United States
00:08:24.280by allowing low-level defendants to maintain their freedom, but it will begin to level the economic and racial playing field that exists in our courts and in our court system.
00:08:36.420A total of 25 charges will no longer require cash bail under the new policy.
00:08:41.600Well, as the city reels from a wave of shootings and assaults that have terrified New Yorkers,
00:08:47.680the NYPD's top cop blaming bail reform laws for the surge in violent crime.
00:08:53.660Police Commissioner Dermot Shea compares the system to a revolving door.
00:08:57.560He says far too often people who should stay in jail are instead turned loose.
00:09:03.000Kayla Mamalack is at one police plaza with more.
00:09:06.760But, you know, wait, the only way this changes, Kayla, is if Albany is listening, and I don't know if they are.