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Hannah Meyers: Thank you everyone for joining us tonight. I’m so glad you could all be here. I’m Hannah Meyers, director of Policing and Public Safety for the Manhattan Institute. New York City and other cities across America are hurting. We have been damaged by years of insufficiently examined criminal justice policies, and we continue to be hurt by forces who insist on particular narratives about the criminal justice system, about race, about human behavior, rather than look hard at the impact of policies and risk coming to other, more complex, conclusions. But it is for us to approach crime, public safety, and justice with an open mind, with dogged investigation, so that we can discover patterns and understand causes in ways that will allow us to return to safer, more stable streets, as well as better outcomes for all who touch the criminal justice system. That has been our focus here at the Manhattan Institute.
Our guest tonight is Department of Corrections commissioner, Louis A. Molina. Commissioner Molina has prioritized using data, analysis, and proactive examination to understand New York City’s jails and guide his policies and decisions. We are honored to have him here tonight in conversation with scholar Charles Fain Lehman, whom I will now introduce. Charles is a fellow here at the Manhattan Institute, working primarily on policing and public safety, including producing data-driven reports on the limitations of New York City’s borough-based jails that are planned, and on the impact of New York State’s 2021 parole reform legislation. He’s a contributing editor of City Journal, and he co-hosts the podcast Institutionalized. Charles has testified on issues including rising extremism, anti-Asian hate crime. He was previously a staff writer with the Washington Free Beacon, and his work has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, National Review, Tablet, and many other publications. And he’s a…
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