A Trip to Crown Heights
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The other highlight of my day was a phone call with Louise Casey, a cabinet level official in the Brown administration in the UK. She filled me in on a sweeping criminal justice reform agenda that she is spearheading, including a number of reforms -- an emphasis on community restitution as a response to minor offending, efforts to involve local residents in the process of doing justice -- that are very similar to things we are working on in NYC.