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Law Enforcement Leaders to Reduce Crime and Incarceration
District attorney for New Hanover and Pender Counties in North Carolina and member of Law Enforcement Leaders to Reduce Crime and Incarceration
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Benjamin David
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FROM Benjamin David
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Law Enforcement, Prosecutors Call for Cuts to Incarceration The US now imprisons more people than any other country, but mass incarceration is not making America safer. That's the conclusion of 130 police chiefs, prosecutors and other law enforcement leaders from around the country who gathered yesterday at the White House to advocate a major change in direction for America's War on Crime. Benjamin David is District Attorney for New Hanover and Pender Counties in North Carolina and a member of Law Enforcement Leaders to Reduce Crime and Incarceration .
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