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PROPOSING CHANGE: District Attorney Eric Gonzalez, center, unveiled his Justice 2020 action plan
on March 11. District Attorney’s offi ce
Prison break
DA lays out plan to end trend of
excessive incarceration in boro
BY KEVIN DUGGAN
He wants to raise the bar.
District Attorney Eric Gonzalez on
March 11 unveiled his long-awaited plan
to reform criminal prosecution in Kings
County. The so-called Justice 2020 initiative
aims to divert people away from the
criminal-justice system by pushing prosecutors
to avoid excessive incarceration
— a trend the district attorney admitted to
promoting himself in his two-plus-decade
prosecutorial career.
“I’ve put a lot of people in jail, in prison,
I’m not afraid to do that when it’s necessary.
But I’ve also learned the lesson, in time, that
many of the people I’ve put in jail did not
need to be there,” Gonzalez said while announcing
the plan during a press conference
at his offi ce in America’s Downtown.
The district attorney conceived of the
17-point initiative , whose terms he hopes to
implement before the end of 2020, with help
from a committee of more than 60 members,
who included criminal-justice reform advocates,
union reps, heads of local do-good
groups, academics, cops, and community
leaders.
In order to promote alternatives to incarceration,
Gonzalez said he will direct some
of his offi ce’s resources toward treating the
underlying causes of specifi c incidents, such
as rapes and hate crimes, each of which in
2018 spiked by 22 and fi ve percent in Kings
County, according to police statistics . And
he already began some of that work, including
efforts to vacate dozens of low-level weed
convictions last year , as well as the creation
of a dedicated hate-crimes bureau in his offi
ce, along with another unit dedicated to
keeping law-enforcement accountable.
“Often, less is more, often times prison
does not equal public safety,” the top prosecutor
said. “We’re going to make criminal
convictions and incarcerations a last resort,
and when we do seek it, we’re going to try
to minimize excessive sanctions whenever
possible.”
When asked if relying less on incarceration
would promote criminal activity, Gonzalez
argued that the current mindset of
locking every perpetrator up is not necessarily
a deterrent, and comes at a high cost
to taxpayers.
“We want people to be accountable for
the crimes they commit. It’s just that sending
someone to jail is the most expensive and
least effective way that we now know how to
do this work,” he said.
The Justice 2020 plan also calls for more
community engagement within the criminal
justice system, proposing the formation
of so-called neighborhood-safety councils
and new partnerships with local civic
groups, both of which will survey residents
about how they want justice to be served.
Creating these groups will help the district
attorney’s offi ce sooner identify the
driving factors behind some crimes, and potentially
allow law-enforcement offi cials to
intervene before a bad deed is committed,
according to Gonzalez.
“My wife is a teacher, and I’ve heard from
many of her friends that teachers could tell
you the fi ve percent of students that they deal
with, who they understand are at great risk.
And there’s unfortunately nothing that can
be done in those cases until they act out and
commit crimes,” the top prosecutor said.
A press-conference attendee fi red back
that such community monitoring could
easily devolve into over-surveilled neighborhoods
and predictive policing, but Gonzalez
countered that his team will tow that
fi ne line by heavily communicating with
cops and the local liaisons his offi ce puts in
place.
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