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Monday's two major shifts in how American criminal justice is meted out can be summarized in two charts. The first is from a study that shows how mandatory minimum sentences have resulted in much ...

Podcaster Tim Pool's chart significantly overstated the difference in crime rates between Democrat-led and Republican-led cities.