Four years ago our city took a risk on endorsing a radical public defender for a District Attorney race in our home—the most incarcerated city in the country. In that race, the city made Larry Krasner’s win a clear acknowledgment that the change we need in our city won’t happen by locking more people up—it will happen when the criminal legal system is transformed to undo the harm it has done to Black communities and communities of color.

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