Suffolk County District Attorney Rachael Rollins gained attention during the election for her ‘do not prosecute' plan, a list of 15 criminal charges that she said her office would decline to pursue. While the plan gained pushback from the National Police Association, a new report released from the Massachusetts branch of the ACLU found that Boston prosecutors dropped nearly 60 percent of such charges brought in 2013 and 2014. The study also showed widespread racial disparities, including that black residents were more likely to get convicted, get probation, or spend time behind bars. Rollins said that getting rid of cash bail is "100 percent" on the horizon in Suffolk County.
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Jim Braude was joined by District Attorney Rachael Rollins and one of the authors of the report, Rahsaan Hall of the ACLU of Massachusetts.
