There is a relatively new movement emerging across the country called progressive prosecution. It is spearheaded by a group of very liberal prosecutors who serve in some jurisdictions where prosecutors are elected. A number of them are former public defenders and they all share an agenda of significant, often radical, change in the criminal justice system. Who are they, what do they want to do, and how has this movement impacted Connecticut?

Eric Gonzalez has changed the face of prosecution in Brooklyn, loosening enforcement of gun offenses and publicly disclosing his office’s list of police officers blacklisted from testifying for the prosecution. In Cook County, Illinois, Kim Foxx campaigned and won election on a platform promising to reduce felony prosecutions for shoplifting and also to reduce mass incarceration. Larry Krasner has created controversy in Philadelphia by pushing back against sharing gun crime prosecutions with the state’s Attorney General, and he is the first prosecutor to withdraw from the Pennsylvania District Attorney’s Association.

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