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Impact of executive policy on incarceration rates
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Council Member Cabán inquires about the influence of executive policy on incarceration rates. The commission affirms that policy can indeed drive incarceration rates up or down.
- The commission emphasizes the importance of urgency, will, and policy support in effecting change.
- They stress the need for focused attention and consistent policy to achieve desired results.
- The discussion highlights the interconnected nature of policy, implementation, and outcomes in the criminal justice system.
Tiffany Cabán
0:52:57
I also obviously have read the different key proposals and there are things that we can do budgetarily and and and legislatively.
0:53:09
But I I wanna ask you some questions.
0:53:11
Do you agree that also policy, particularly executive policy, can can drive incarceration rates up or down.
Jonathan Lippman
0:53:20
Yes.
0:53:21
I think we if you look at our report, we three of the buzzwords that we use are urgency, will, and policy support.
0:53:30
So I absolutely we absolutely believe that that's the case.
Deanna Logan
0:53:35
Yeah.
Jonathan Lippman
0:53:36
Focusing on on it it's all of a piece.
0:53:40
You having no one who focuses on it all the time, so policy is all over the place.
0:53:46
Of being, you know, driven by a sense of urgency, a sense of will, a sense of devising something that's gonna have the desired result.
0:53:55
And