Jason Flom
speaker
522 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 17 Feb
Jason Flom’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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You got to try.
I mean, my story is a series of these type of miracles.
I didn't know what the f*** I was doing, but I got Stephen Lennon out and he's never gone back to prison.
And he's had a great life, raised a family, paid a lot of taxes, built a business, you know, like he didn't need to be in prison.
We need to take a different approach.
We incarcerate people in America at a rate that is five times the rate of Western Europe or the rest of the Western world.
14 times the rate of Japan.
What we do know is that what works locally is that if you devote a tiny fraction of the resources that we spend on these awful practices...
over-surveilling people, brutalizing them.
If you take a tiny fraction of that money and build a community center, or much less than that, you just pick the garbage up off the streets in the area where the violence is most concentrated.
Every city has an area of probably two or three blocks where it's most concentrated, square blocks.
If you fix the streetlights, if you put a taco stand, a little green space...
It's amazing.
Crime falls.
We've known this for a long, long time.
And my whole theory on it, Pablo, is it's very freaking simple.
What causes crime is desperation.
Prove me wrong.
Okay, desperation.
And people say, oh, what about mental illness?
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