Israel-Gaza Deal, Progressive Prosecutors, Rosalynn Carter Legacy
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A, A ceasefire between ezela and gaza has started. The first group of hostages held in the enclave is set to be released this morning.

Today, IT was like two thirty at seven A M. IT was officially announced. real.

The deal hold. I mean, Martinez, and this is up first from P. R. News, the top prosecutor and said luis wound to reduce mass incarceration, but some felt he was making the city of safe.

We kept arresting people and SHE kept at them out.

How is similar opposition to progressive prosecutors playing out across the country, plus rollin Carter health trained journalists to report on mental health through a fellowship? One of those Carter fellows was inspired to look at custody or englished.

I was getting contacted by families from all over who had similar stories and feeling like no one was hearing them.

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Have a seven weeks of war. The ceasefire between hamas and israel has begun. The pause in the fighting is to allow the exchange of hostages held by him as and prisoners held by israel.

Now if things go according to plan, the first exchanges should begin later today for more were joined by mp rs. Daniel estrin in television. Daniel, people have been waiting for this day for a while now. What's the mood where you are?

You know, it's finally a morning of hope for israel. So there's been just a little rocket fire on to southern israel just after the AMC fire went to effect. But now, you know, the streets here, which have been very quiet for these past seven weeks, are are kind of bus. And outside the television art museum, where there are crowds of israeli buying yellow bookies of flowers, their donations to the families of hostages, and I spoke to one of those israeli who are, is bringing home flowers to her family for a sense of hope. Here's what he said, Diana montier.

and bringing this powers to my mom is a symbol of hope. And we are helping to see everybody return safely to their families.

Now qatar, which broke her this deal, said thirteen hostages out of the about two hundred and forty being held in gaza. Thirteen only will be released today. We still don't know which ones, israel says IT received the list and notified all of the hostage families, so the families already know if their loved ones are coming home today or not. They've been asked not to say anything publicly. You know, no one wants any last minute snack that can derail this whole thing.

And now the fighting is stopped, right, at least on pause for for a while. What's IT like in gaza? Just as you can tell.

it's actually a very confusing and very chaotic day for people in gaza. I spoke this morning to our producer, anas ba in gaza. Here's what he told me.

If people are a little picture about like what are they're going to do, we didn't witness any like celebrations in the street.

And actually, we're hearing reports that israeli troops have fired on people in gaza who tried to go back to their homes in northern gaza, the area where israeli troops of occupied. Now the israeli army has not yet commented on those reports. We have seen some video footage that we haven't independently verified, but IT seems the army has tried to to warn with fliers dropping fires from the air not to return to northern gaza.

But that just gives you a sense the confusion of what does this ceasefire actually mean for people? What can people do? We spoke to one pharmacist in gaza who said he feels depressed.

People can't really return to their homes. Electricity still hasn't been restored. Israel says fuel and cooking gas have been transferred to the U.

N. In southern gaza to alleviate this canvas graphic. And in situation, there were hundreds of thousands of sheltering.

You mention how when IT comes to the hostage, thirteen are going to be released. Don't know much more than that about who the hostess are, but what more can you tell us about how the exchange is gonna? Because I imagine it's going to be really complicated and delicate and and there's the election, maybe a possibility that IT might .

be delayed yeah I mean, and israel official told M. P. R. That it's going to work this way.

The international committee of the red cross will facilitate the hostages going into israeli hands across some kind of border from gaza, probably through egypt and then to israel. There will be initial medical checks at the border, if possible. Uh, some of these postages released to have their first conversation with their families back home.

Many of them lost relatives in the october seven of the attack. They probably don't even know about that. Then they'll be flown to hospitals and families will meet them at the hospitals and the adults will be questioned by israeli security forces.

That's mp. s. Daniel estrin in television. Daniel, thanks.

You're welcome.

Across the country, many progressive prosecutors have been labeled soft on crime for criminal justice reform, such as eliminating cash bail and not prosecuting shop lifters. Some have been removed from office and instinct Lewis, the resistance is so fierce that one police officer is refusing to do one of the most important parts of his job. Mp r such a fior collaborated with republic to examine how this situation mirrors a nationwide trends. So I should tell us about this man.

This is a saint Lewis homicide detective named Roger Murphy. He is refusing to testify in murder cases in which he was the lead investigator. So far, he's declined to take the stand and at least nine cases, and burpy thinks his absence hurt prosecutors chances of getting convictions. And there's another trial coming up soon, and Murphy won't testify in that one either.

So why not? I won't testify .

because the same Lewis prosecutors office put mercy on the list of cops with credibility problems. Murphy landed on IT, he believes, unfairly because of some facebook posts interpreted as being racist. But even though Murphy was on that list, the prosecutors office still asked him to testify in cases. Murphey says it's hypocritical to question his integrity, yet trust him to take the stand.

So let me guess, a progressive prosecutor is at the center of the story.

Yes, a woman named kim garden, erm, SHE was the top prosecutor in stint Lewis for nearly seven years. SHE vow to reduce mass incarceration, hold police accountable, but SHE clashed with police. They say SHE failed to prosecute legitimate cases, and detective worthy strongly opposes her policies. I don't .

believe in the progression system. The public has seen is the enemy and is seeing our profession as the enemy. But we didn't break the system. We keep arresting people, and SHE kept let them out.

Kim gardener resigned the spring after huge push back and a lot of dis function in her office, and morphy is now retired, but he's still refusing to testify an ongoing cases.

Now imagine earlier, many progressive prosecutors across the country have also faced opposition .

in recent years, right philadephia, multiple san Francisco, boston. They all have or had progressive prosecutors who were hit with huge resistance, and some were forced out or resigned in chicago. The top prosecutor is kim fox, and he says some people were rooting for her to fail from the gets go.

Before I put my hand on the bible to take this job, there was a police blog naming the crime A C R I M E S H A A play on the word crime and what I believe to be a racist insinuation about me being black, with the name issue putting out my address in saying, perhaps if people came to my house and assaulted my daughters, in my view on crime would be different.

So SHE thinks police weren't going to accept her no matter how much he tried to work with them.

What do we know about crime rates in places that have progressive?

Some studies have found there's no connection between increased crime rates and progressive prosecutors, but criminal gist will be debating for years how much crime rates were affected by covet versus the economy versus progressive policies. Now some police believe criminals are involved by progressive prosecutors because they think there will be no consequences for illegal behavior.

The counter argument is that desperate or harden to people aren't thinking in advance about whether the local prosecutor is tough on crime or progressive. Here's the president of the saint Lewis N. W. A C. P.

Adolphus proved you have people who not afraid to go to jail is a simple that a point in their lives were hill my life and work crap anyway, some feel. And then you try to tell me that jail is worse and let them know, feel that way.

So both prosecutors and police have that to contend with. Two.

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For first lady roslin, Carter championed many causes during her lifetime, but he held a special placing her heart for mental health. And one of the way he did that was to help train journalists as Carter fellows reporting on mental health. Try now by one of those journalists.

Christine harm joins us from member station W I L L in urban elano. I. Christine, so what made mrs. Court so interested in training and supporting journalists?

Well, I think mr. Carter understood the power that the media has in shaping public perception. I mean, at the time when he was starting her mental health advocate work in the seventies, mental illness was something that people were really ashamed to talk about.

They were really harmful depictions of people with mental illness in the movies. And that really contributed to the stigma and discrimination that people with mental illnesses face. So one of the purposes of the rosen Carter into health journalism fellowship program is teach reporters things like how to report accurate on mental health as a medical condition, not as a fAiling or as a lack of moral character.

And you were one of those Carter fellow. Tell us about your time there.

yes. So this was twenty eighteen. And I was changing careers for my PHD in chemistry to being a full time public radio reporter. And I wanted to report on mental health, but I had no experience.

So this group of people from around the country, and even internationally, we came together at the Carter center in atlantic for several days of training, and I got to basically hang out with mrs. Carter. He attended a lot of these meetings that we had with experts and advocates and people who had lived experience.

And SHE joined us for a lunch. And what really stood out to me was just how approach able SHE was, how kind and I was, of course, pretty star struck around her, you know. But he made us all feel so welcomed. And being around someone who is champion these issues for so long, knowing I had her support that helped me immensely, especially when I face some chAllenges with my reporting project as well.

Tell us about that reporting project.

yeah. So I was writing about people who have to give up custody of their children with serious mental illnesses in order to force the state to basically pay for the treatment that they needed. So this was a really heavy topic, and really IT took a toll on my own mental health.

Like once I started putting stories out, I was getting contacted by families from all over who had similar stories and feeling like no one was hearing them. And I was also a new mother at the time myself. So just a thought of giving up my child because is the only way I could help them or even save their life. IT became too much at times.

wow. So that's a lot to take on for you at once. How did your involvement with the quarter center help you?

I would just say learning about mr. Carter's life gave me some perspective. I read her book within our reach. Its all about how IT is possible to create a Better mental health system.

I mean, she's been working on these issues longer than i've been alive, right? And forty, fifty years or so. And he was hopeful when he started this work, and he was still holding on to hope till the variant.

So IT really inspired me to stick with my project and to stick with this topic. In fact, earlier this year, I put out a story about new jersey, which has actually solved the problem of custody reengagement. So IT is possible. And that hope that these problems can be solved is really, I think, the legacy of roslin Carter.

Christine hermine is a twenty eighteen roslin Carter mental health journalism fellow. Thanks for showing your memories question.

Thank you a ve as a pleasure.

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