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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.

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    By Warren Olney • Oct 23, 2015 • 9m Listen

    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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      Warren Olney

      former KCRW broadcaster

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      Benjamin David

      Law Enforcement Leaders to Reduce Crime and Incarceration

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    The American Cancer Society's New Mammogram Guidelines
    1. 1:39Historic Hurricane Bearing Down on Mexico
    2. 8:40New Guidelines Create Confusion about Mammograms
    3. 42:30Law Enforcement, Prosecutors Call for Cuts to IncarcerationYou’re reading this
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