Zohran Mamdani: “The city relies too heavily on incarceration.”

“All right, I've got time for one more. Katie, let's make it quick, please. I wanted to ask you, I have two questions. The first is about jails. You argue that The city relies too heavily on incarceration. So what are your specific policies that you would push at the state level? To reduce the jail population enough to actually make closing Rikers possible, which I know is the law, but right now the population makes it difficult.” (32:00–32:03)

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