It's when you abuse it and use it as a quota system. And now let's talk about Rikers island, because you just mentioned Rikers Island. So I want to talk about that. 7,400 people in Rikers island are not there for just stealing an apple or jumping the turnstile. which we fought against. They're there because extremely serious crimes that are inflicted for the most part on black and brown communities, on the most part, 70, 400 of those … (1:15:43–1:15:50)
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