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Previously on "Philly DA..."

- For 30 years, the policy
was "lock 'em up.

Lock more of 'em up.
Lock 'em up for longer."

- From the very beginning,
District Attorney Larry Krasner

developed policies that
focused on second chances

as opposed to punishment.

- This is the seventh year
anniversary of my son's death.

For me to work
on victim services

in my son's memory
is awesome for me.

- Our family is angry.

This DA is not for the victims.

- Do you favor criminals, is
the question.

- This is a call from...

- Pennsylvania State
Correctional Institution.

- This call is subject
to recording and monitoring.

- And, um...

[buzzer buzzing]

[dramatic music]

♪

- Welcome to Radio Times.

Let's talk about
juvenile lifers.

Philadelphia apparently
sentenced more teenagers

to life
than any other jurisdiction.

- Pennsylvania had more
juvenile lifers at the time

the Supreme Court said

that juvenile life
was unconstitutional,

than any other state

and than any other country
in the world.

- So since the Supreme Court
made that decision,

what has your office done
on this issue?

- We are charged with
conducting the resentencings.

In general, our recommendations

are lower than
the prior administration.

- Because... what, we change?
- Yeah, people can change.

♪

[phone ringing]

[indistinct chatter]

♪

- I'm gonna give you Bob's copy.

All right, we are considering
new sentencing

of defendant Joseph Chamberlain.

This case is
from April 20th, 1992.

It's a first degree murder case.

The victim in this case
was a 15 year old

by the name of Sultan Ahmad.

Ahmad and the defendant,
Mr. Chamberlain,

had an ongoing fight.

On this date, Sultan Ahmad

went over to the home
of a co-defendant in this case,

whose name was Kasam Hennix.

Hennix called
and let Chamberlain know

that Ahmad was at his home.

At that point,
Joseph Chamberlain

grabbed a shotgun
from his closet.

The gun was hidden
and the three of them

walked to the park.
Once they were in the park,

Chamberlain pulled the gun out
and handed it to Hennix,

who said he accidentally shot
Sultan Ahmad in both legs.

The gun jammed.

He handed the gun back
to Chamberlain who fixed it

and then shot the victim
in the stomach and the head.

The bottom line is that
this was an assassination.

The victim in this case,
Sultan Ahmad... you actually know

the family before
this happened, right?

And after...
- That's correct.

The father was...
Worked in the mayor's office.

- This case was originally
a death penalty case.

The jury came back
with a first degree conviction.

And Joseph Chamberlain
was sentenced to life,

plus two and
a half years consecutive.

Mr. Chamberlain
had 20 misconducts.

The last one had been in 2013,

and that was
for tattooing himself.

He'd also gotten his GED.

- I mean, this adjustment
ranks how in general?

- I would say
this is a very average

and non-concerning adjustment.

There was nothing
about this adjustment

that caused me pause.

- No criminal prosecutions...
- No.

- And two or three assaultive
incidents in 24 years.

- There are some people,

who in my view
should never leave jail,

but not many.

There is a much, much larger
number of people

who, without the slightest
hope of freedom...

You know, became
really useful people,

decent people in jail.

None of it made up for
the crime they had committed,

but all of it defined
who they had become

at a certain point later
in their life.

This ideology that people
never change,

that the world is only made
up of monsters

and saints just isn't true.

Everything that I've experienced

in 30 years in criminal justice

tells me that even people
who have done

monstrous things
early in life...

seldom are monsters
when they are much older.

What we're doing
is an existential threat

to fundamental views
about human beings.

[somber music]

♪

- Joseph Chamberlain left
the courtroom knowing

he'd never see freedom again.

He and co-defendant Kasam Hennix

were convicted of killing
15-year-old Sultan Ahmad

with a sawed-off shotgun
in Hunting Park 2 years ago.

Hennix got
a third-degree verdict.

Chamberlain was convicted
of first degree murder.

♪

- Ahmad's father,
a city official

known for his active stance
against youth violence.

He has established a
scholarship in his son's name

as one step in his continued
battle against violence.

- We're working to put a message

of anti-violence out there.

Trying to help young people
to create a situation

of mediating
through non-violence

and trying to deal
with conflict resolution.

♪

These are Sultan.

That's Sultan right there.

That's my man.

Sultan Jihad Ahmad.

And this is one of the portrait
pictures that we had of him.

- Is that the one
that they painted?

- Yeah, they painted
a portrait of this picture.

Those were his favorite colors:
blue, mauve, and teal.

Sultan was a young,
energetic young man.

He was quite active in...

in a lot of
community activities.

His grandfather gave him
the name called Eatmore.

They gave him that name
because every time

he went
to his grandfather's house,

he would eat up everything
that was over there.

- Yeah.

- So those were good memories.

[children playing outside]

In '92, the police
came to meet with me

and told me that
there was some tragic news.

You know, I didn't see... think
of it in any way personal

because we work
with the police department,

so I just thought
something had happened

or I thought my son got
involved with something.

And then they told us that he
was murdered in Hunting Park.

And, you know, my whole world
kind of collapsed right then.

- I thought something
had happened to him.

And when I got in there,
he was just a wreck.

And I'm, like...

You know, it was horrible.

It was really horrible.

A parent's worst nightmare.

I was for the death penalty.

You know, I really was.

I was hurt.
You know, you took my child,

so you need to die too,
as far as I was concerned.

[soft music]

♪

- You're welcome.

I remember when your son
was shot.

I remember that.

- People have good intentions
and they say,

"I knew how you feel,"
but they really don't.

But you know how we feel.
- You do.

- Because you're a mother
who's lost one too.

- So... the conversation
on Monday

is going to be about Chamberlain

and the conditions
of his release.

You can say
you don't want him released.

So, all the time
you need to take...

- They make a ruling right then
and there?

- No.
- No.

- No, they take everything
under consideration

and they make that later,

and then they'll notify you
of their ruling.

- So the question is,
how do we know that for a fact?

Like, what if he still had
malice in his heart beat,

you know, against our family?

You know what I mean?
- You don't know.

- There's nothing that
you can determine about that.

Right now it's time for us to

not begin to, I think,
turn ourselves backwards

so we're, you know,
trying to relive that past.

Because I don't think
we're capturing any...

- It's not a point about trying
to relive the past.

I mean, you're going to live it
as long as you're alive.

So it's not reliving the past.

We can't determine
what Joseph is gonna do

once he's released.
- Right.

- Whatever he does,
he's going to do it.

Be good, bad, or indifferent.

- Right.

- He wants to meet
with Chamberlain personally,

face-to-face.
- Absolutely.

That's important.
Yes.

- You don't agree, Harriet?

- That's all on him.

- I would want
to sit down with him.

I would want to really talk
with him.

One-on-one, man-to-man.

And see what that brings about.

- But can we know what's really
in somebody's heart?

I don't think so.

What we can do is
we can look at their actions.

The young man
that took my son's life,

it's nothing that he can do

that'll take
that pain away, right?

But if he can help
another person from offending

or from killing somebody else...

For me, giving him a chance
is worth it...

because what we really want
at the end of the day...

and I know that's what your
family works for every day...

is for this to stop.
Like, for this to just stop.

♪♪

- I am not an attorney
as you can tell by my attire.

I do not have to dress up nicely

like everybody else here,
which is a perk I think.

I am a criminologist, which
means that I have a PHD

in criminology,
law, and justice.

I joined the office to help be

a part of this exciting reform.

- Have you,
in your legal analysis

or policy analysis,

found any kind of confirmation

that refocusing our energies
away from low-level violations

will be better
preventing violent crimes?

- I can't think of research
that suggests

that enforcing low-level crimes
reduces serious crimes.

Broken windows in New York
might be spoken about,

but now they've stopped
enforcing

those low-level crimes
and crime hasn't gone back up.

Generally, we think
that policy is data driven.

Criminal justice,
that's probably the exception

instead of the rule.

[indistinct chatter]

Historically in this office,
it has been

the use of gut feelings

and that is how we got
into this mess, largely,

because you're making decisions,

you're changing policies,

you're not knowing
how it's going.

There's a plan for data
transparency and releasing...

The DA values data and science.

That's a major part
of the culture change.

We're not doing policy based
on what a few people think.

We're doing policy based on
things that we can describe,

that are concrete,
that we can stand up on

and say this is why we did it.

And to be able
to talk about that,

it just does even
more power to it.

[applause]

- Somebody one day is going
to do something,

maybe kill a cop, kill a kid.

And you're going to be
faced with it.

And somebody says
they could have been in jail.

And you'll say, but let's look
at the preponderance

of the evidence.
The evidence bears out

what I wanted to do,

but you know
how emotional things are.

And if it is a cop
or is a child,

it'll be a hell storm.
Are you prepared for that?

And I wonder,
do you wake up every day,

wondering, "Is today the day
it comes around

and I gotta deal with this?"

- So every day, you do live
to some extent

on pins and needles that
something terrible can happen

and you have to deal with it.

But, you know, we gotta
get real about this stuff.

It is risk management
and it's based on science.

The way this type
of progressive prosecution

survives is by somehow
teaching the media

and somehow teaching the public

that there is
a thing called science.

And that
we do not simply rely on

a single terrible incident

to decide whether
this is good risk management

or bad risk management.

We have to actually look
at the bigger picture.

- With all due respect,
everything you said,

just made sense,
but you know, as well as I do,

a lot of your office is
public perception and reaction.

- Right.
- And when people are upset,

they don't pause
for the metrics.

- Breaking news right now.

A two-year-old girl

shot and killed
in North Philadelphia.

- A weekend of
deadly gun violence...

16 shootings since Friday.

- Violence has surged
in the city

with shooting after shooting.

- Five people injured,
including four teenagers.

One adult dead
during a graduation party,

near a playground last night.

- Do you consider keeping
Philadelphia residents safe

to be the number one priority
of this office?

- Yes.
And there's a way...

- Do you think that's clear
to people?

- These violent weekends.
What can be done to end those?

- But how do you stop
the kind of carnage

that happened this weekend
and stop it immediately?

- I know this isn't politics,

but the real solutions
are structural.

It has to do with
proper public education,

keeping young men in high school

and then getting them
onto jobs and so on.

- Do you agree that there is

a public safety crisis
in Philadelphia?

- Yesterday the police
commissioner seemed to imply

that people who carry guns

don't feel concern
about being prosecuted.

Do you think
he's talking to you?

- Our rate of rejecting gun
cases is under 2%.

Violent crime in Philadelphia

is actually down
since we took office.

- What has your office done to
lower shootings and homicides?

- This problem is beyond
just the police;

it's beyond just the DA.

- People aren't afraid
of being arrested.

- You're arguing that
it's a structural issue.

- I think we all...

- A 24-year-old got killed,
shot in the back.

- Do you think you're too light
on sentences?

- Seth Williams did not
stop this from happening.

Lynne Abraham did not stop this
from happening.

They were talking
the same game the whole time.

"We're gonna deter crime
by being tough,"

and it got us here.

It's been established
not really to work.

- But if they're not on
the street,

they can't shoot anybody.

Who was DA when

there were dozens of people
shot over the weekend?

- I was.

- Is that not
your responsibility then?

[tense music]

♪

- As much violence as we see
in this profession

and in this area,

a lot of us are worried.

The last two months,
we had a ten-year-old killed,

an 11-month-old shot.

And he's still fighting
for his life.

Shortly after that,
there was another shooting.

The lieutenant calls me
and he says,

"You're not gonna
believe this."

He says, "We have
another child shot."

And he says it's a two-year-old.

And he's telling me,
it doesn't look good.

The baby's...
The baby's gonna die.

[sirens chirping]

[helicopter blades whirring]

You know, you get to the point
where it's, like...

it's not unbelievable.
You know?

It's just a matter of,
all right,

when's the next child
gonna be killed?

I'm at a loss.

I think we all are.

We need a DA who really wants
to see these guys put away.

Let's stop worrying
about prisoners

or people who choose
the life that they are living

and let's start worrying about

the actual people who live here.

- Come here.
Come here, come here.

I have a couple questions.

Why are you not in full uniform?

[children chattering]

[laughs]

[upbeat ringtone playing]

Yes.

- This is a call from...
- Pennsylvania State

Correctional Institution.
- Miss Nadira,

I'm going in here, okay?

Good morning.
Hey, baby.

- Hey, what's up?

- Nothing much.
What's up with you?

I mean, just the normal crazy
around here.

A very crazy day.

I got your cards.

- Yes, they were
really, really nice.

- And I showed
the kids your artwork.

So they want you
to teach them some art.

- [laughing]

- Yeah?

- Did they put you on the list
to see the parole man?

- How are you feeling overall?

[phone chirping]
- You have one minute left.

- Yeah.

[both smooching]

- Thank you for using Securis.
- I know, all right.

- Goodbye.

- Okay!

You guys ready to go upstairs?

- Yeah.
- Yeah?

- I was 14.
He was 16 when we first met.

He was cute.
He was definitely cute.

He wasn't my boyfriend.
It was more of a crush,

prior to him
getting into this trouble.

But he's always stayed in touch.

So I send him pictures
and he draws it.

He does it all freehand.

Very nice, right?

They're amazing.

And then he'll stare
at a picture hours at a time

for one detail.

[somber music]

♪

[indistinct chatter]
- Hey, Jen!

- Hi, Avila.
- Hi!

- Gorgeous.
[indistinct chatter]

- What's up, Jen?

- Me and my wife sat down.

We were not going
to have a pity party.

And we just decided
we gonna do something.

- I came up with the idea

to have the mothers'
prayer breakfast

for the women

that have lost a child
or loved ones to violence.

So we've been doing it,
I think, 17 or 18 years.

Just come and...
[sighs]

Relieve yourself,
hug somebody, you know.

Just talk to somebody.

That's all.

- I just wanna say a few words.

I'm not
a long-distance speaker for...

- Ooh.
- You know, I don't speak

too well,
and I don't speak too long.

[applause]
This year would be 27 years

since the death of Sultan.

I know, when I was first told
that Sultan was murdered,

my family was there.

My wife was there to pull me up.

So it really shows that it is
faith, family, and community

that makes a difference.

And we decided, at that point,

that we were not gonna just cry.

We were going to make
a difference

and an effort to help look
at this issue of youth violence

and try to find
some solution to it.

- Well, Brother Sultan,
I think you done said it all,

for somebody
that wasn't gonna talk long.

[laughter]

- My son was killed

in August of 1976.

You never forget that night.

[murmurs of agreement]

- It hurts.
It hurts every day.

I go past the cemetery,
and I speak to my boys.

I love you.
I love you, I love you.

- I thank God
for Sultan and Harriet.

They encouraged us.

We got a lot of lost young men
out in these streets, y'all.

They need encouragement.

We gotta tell them
that we love them.

We gotta take our schools back,
take our streets back.

Only love can do it.

Only love.
[applause]

[nearby traffic]

- [sighs]

- So this is everything
from my son's case.

I had a wonderful
district attorney

who included me
every step of the way,

including when I had to request
all the records

from the morgue,

from the hospital the night
he was shot.

I read every single page.

I know how many ounces of blood
they put in my son.

It's my son.

It's really ironic
that I'm here.

And then it's...

painful...

because my son was so much
more than two boxes of paper.

[somber music]

And these are people's lives,

in boxes all over this building.

♪

- I want to start by asking
how many people here...

Just raise your hand

if you have been
affected by a homicide.

Keep your hand up

if that person was
under 21 years of age.

Our young people are in crisis.

86% of the homicide victims?

African-American males.
That says it all.

- I am a co-victim of homicide.

My 18-year-old son,
Charles Andre Johnson,

was shot right down the street
at Washington Lane.

As a direct result of that,
I had the intimate job

of engaging these young people
who were those identified

as likely to shoot or be shot.

And they wanted out.

They want out.

They don't know how to get out.

Our children are
in a hopeless state.

[applause]

♪♪

- I did 14 1/2 years in prison.

I don't know nothing.
- Did they help with housing?

- They didn't help me
with nothing.

- These kids don't got
no skills,

nobody to look up to,
no mentors,

no nothing in this hood.

So it's gonna be that
every day all day.

I don't care how many...

You could have the whole
police force down here.

That's not gonna change
what's going in the hood.

- These young men,
what do you think

they need the most right now?

- I was getting ready
to say that.

Young men really
have a mindset to change,

but they gotta have a chance.

- These kids out here really
don't wanna do the shooting.

They don't have no homes
to go to.

They're not...
They don't... they can't eat.

How many times, Raoul,
have you fed somebody?

How many times have you helped
somebody for sleeping,

for bedding?
- Yeah.

- I have 6 kids and I don't want

none of my kids to be killed.

That's my biggest fear
before I leave this earth.

- Why are we killing
each other in Philly?

- Here's the reality.

This city spends $3/4 billion

on law enforcement,
including my office.

They spend 15 million
on violence prevention.

Unless you invest
in the prevention,

then the police
and the prosecution are,

frankly, cleaning up the mess.

- It's great
we're thinking long-term,

but what about the now?

Many people are saying
we're scared right now.

- Well, how did we get to now?
We got to now because,

last time this came up,
everybody said,

- "We want a solution now. We
don't want to actually  - do

stuff that works,
stuff that's hard.

Stuff that's different
makes us uncomfortable.

We just want
to do something now."

We need to put money in schools,

we need to put money
into drug treatment,

we need to prosecute
in different ways.

- But your office can't
put money into schools.

How are you... I'm just trying
to get that clear.

- So when you say
we can't put money in schools,

oh, yes, we can.

The fact is that the amount
of money that is spent

when a judge decides
to give a 50 year sentence

where the appropriate sentence
might have been 10

is on the order
of $2.1 million, okay?

That is one sentence
for one courtroom, one day.

That is money that should be
in our public schools.

And so we cannot view this
in a siloed way.

We have tried it for 30
years and it failed.

- Hello, this is
a prepaid collect call from...

- Pooh.
[phone chirps]

- You got questions for parole.

- But, but... wait, wait,
wait, wait, wait, wait.

- Mm-mm, you're not gonna give
that speech at the end, right?

It's a little scary
to hear you, like,

"Well, at the end,
I'm gonna make sure

I say everything."
Be vulnerable.

- Yes, I did, love.

- This was a 15-year-old

killed by a 16-year-old

and a 17-year-old accomplice.

It was a situation that
should never have happened.

But I think I went further

to the blame
of the access of the gun

and the whole idea
that there were guns

that young people could get
their hands on so easy.

That part...

it resonates
in my heart every day.

[phone trilling]

- Communications.

Yeah, this is Ben.

- This afternoon, US Attorney
William McSwain

lobbied a volley of criticism
against Philadelphia

District Attorney Larry Krasner.

-The policies that

hi
s office is pursuing

are a danger to Philadelphia.

There's a very very
strong correlation here.

Common sense tells you
if you're pursuing

an anti-law enforcement agenda,

and then homicides go up,

that has something
to do with it.

When the office leads the charge

for lenient bail conditions,
when the office

consistently undercharges
violent crime cases,

when its overall stated
priority is decarceration,

and when the District Attorney
refers to himself as

a Public Defender with power,

violent criminals
take notice of all of that

and they become emboldened.

- I'm confident that
the policies have not been

the cause of the rise
in the number of shootings.

We haven't seen anything
in the data.

- Alright, there are things
I need to understand here.

I see your overall numbers
for recidivism.

- We actually calculated how
many additional people

were released
because of the policy.

It's like 2000 people,
it's a big number.

And there weren't negative
side effects with recidivism

or with failure to appear.

- These policies that were
so, you know, attacked, worked.

- Yeah.

- Thelma and Louise haven't
quite gone off the cliff yet.

- It's unusual
where you have external,

independent professors
at two different schools,

evaluate your policy
and basically say,

"Yeah, what you wanted
to happen, happened."

The office is putting fear

into the hearts of
law-abiding citizens

who have to deal with
the terror of homicide

and other violent crime
in their neighborhood.

- Nobody here is pro-crime.
[bleep] him twice.

- It's an attempt to stir up
fear in a city

where this man
doesn't even live.

So let's talk about science.

- All right, you ready?

- I got this.
- All right.

- Yeah.
[laughs]

- We have to have conversations
around criminal justice

that are based in fact,

that are based in evidence
and based in science.

What is not called science
is claiming that it's quote,

"Common sense," unquote,
that if homicides go up,

then they were caused
by the District Attorney.

And what's even less scientific
is to put up a prepared board,

showing the levels of homicides
over the last six years,

which shows that homicides went
up for five consecutive years,

and blame the District
Attorney's administration

that's been in one year.

That is what just happened.

- Critics say that too often,
people cherry pick statistics,

maybe McSwain's doing it
in this case,

and you're doing it
with that report.

What would you say
to those critics?

That everyone tries to...

- Mr. McSwain is essentially
not presenting any statistics.

What he said is that
it's common sense.

That if homicides go up
for the fifth consecutive year,

it's all my fault.

We did our own data, metrics,
analysis,

which came to certain
conclusions about bail reform.

That is called science.

- His argument is as you let
more violent criminals out,

those criminals are
on the streets.

That also attracts
more criminals to those areas.

And you're going to have
more violent crime.

That's his rationale.

- People can say anything.
Here's the reality.

- Doesn't that...

- Here's the reality.
Let me answer your question.

He can give me a report
in which he can show me

that any one
of those things is true.

But we all know the truth.
He doesn't have one.

- Don't you guys have to find
some way, personally,

to work together for
the betterment of the citizens?

- This was done for reasons
that are political.

And the reality is that...
Just one second, may I finish?

I also am mindful that
when you deal with a bully,

sometimes they're not
interested in working together.

And sometimes

all that you can do
is control your own behavior.

- Well, another press
conference with Larry Krasner.

This is not the happiest
I've ever seen Larry Krasner,

but, you know, he...

Larry walks to the beat
of his own drum.

- Even if you're doing
a policy really well,

there are outliers.
There's going to be times

when things go wrong
and people get hurt.

It's incredibly hard for data
to win out over emotion.

There are those narratives
out there that reform

is related to violence.
And even if they're not true,

it just becomes
political capital.

I mean risk is a big part of it.

It's just easy to do things
the same way.

- [sighs]

♪

[somber music]

♪

- My wife, myself, and my family

all feel that something
was taken away from us.

A spear was put into our heart,

a day that we will never forget,

a day of unbelievable hurt.

We are here to let it be known

that I don't know what kind
of man he will become.

I don't know what kind of things

he has done to change his life,

but I'm gonna have to send
a spear in his heart for him

to consider the growth
that's needed.

But we're not here
for vengeance.

I believe that every person

should have
an opportunity to grow.

You have to own up
to what you do.

You have to pay for what you do.

And when you're given
an opportunity,

you have to do the right thing.

- Hi, are we meeting
in your office or Larry's?

- Yeah.

The defendant is inside
of the store.

One of his friends gets
into a scrap with the decedent.

The fight spills outside.

The defendant raises his gun.

And even though
it's a running, moving target,

he shoots one time, hits him

in the back of the head,
kills him.

- What do we know about
the victim?

Do we know anything?
- 18 year old kid,

prior robbery and an escape.

They were... oh,
they were both out

on home passes
from juvenile supervision.

Both of them had cut
their GPS bands off.

And so they're out
running around in the city

when they were supposed
to be on juvenile supervision.

That's tragedy.

- You got an 18 year
old kid that's dead.

And you got a...
Now a 19 year old kid

who's going to spend
decades in prison.

[somber music]

♪

- Day in and day out,
it's huge emotional stuff.

Like when you're doing
the juvenile lifer cases,

and oftentimes meeting
with the victim's family,

and sometimes the defendants.

It's a lot easier when you're
just meeting with one side

and you don't have to
try to figure out

what's the just position.

- I did it today actually.
- Who did you meet with today?

- A person who did something...

[sniffles]

- This is what I mean.

- It was a guy who killed
his neighbor,

who raped her
with a shower pole.

- No.

You met him?
- Yep.

It's just like, tell me why

I should not be scared
that you're gonna get out

and go to a bar
and meet some woman and...

She's gonna die.
Tell me.

Layer it on being a victim of...

Something that looks a little
bit like what you did.

He was 14 years old.

He was being repeatedly
raped by her husband.

So it's just like...

It's somewhat complicated
by the notion of...

Being in jail into your mid-40s

from the time
of early puberty...

And what the hell does
that mean about what comes out?

- If you don't feel it...

Then you can't make
good decisions.

But you also can't live
in fear and say...

"I'm just going to
lock people up forever."

- You may start
the conversation now.

- It looks like a great day.
It's your hearing day.

- You nervous?
Did you sleep?

- No?
You ain't take the tea?

- No, Sleepy Time Tea
works for everybody.

- Oh, okay.

That'll be our secret.
- Yeah.

- Are you gonna call me
after the hearing

or do I have to wait all day?

- I want it after the hearing

because I can't go through
the whole day.

- Yes.

What do you need to do
before your hearing?

- Breathe.

- Deep breaths, calm down.
Right?

- I love you too.
Okay.

I have to run upstairs to see
what they've got going on.

[children screaming
and chattering]

Yay.
Hey, beautiful.

See how my days go?
- Take it.

- Thank you so much.

Well, hello.

How are you, beautiful?
Did you eat breakfast?

[upbeat ringtone playing]
My phone.

♪

My phone.

- [child screaming]

♪

- This is a call from...
- Pennsylvania State

Correctional Institution Forest.

- This call is subject to
recording and monitoring.

To accept charges, press one.

- Yes.
What happened?

- It's over.
[both laughing]

- You did it.

- So tell me what
your final speech was.

[uplifting music]

♪

- All right...

♪

[indistinct chatter]
- [laughs]

[crying happily]

- This is crazy, yeah.
[both talking indistinctly]

This is crazy.

- [laughs]

- I feel like I'm about
to pass out.

- You did it, baby.

[whispering]
I love you.

- It's just crazy, Kia.

Damn, this is crazy.
- [laughs]

We got to drive.
- Yes, we do.

- All right,
let's get out of here

before they change their mind.

Look at you.
You're actually driving, Kia.

- [laughs and sighs]

Just remember to breathe.

♪

[R&B music playing]

- They ain't got nothing
going on up here.

- Hey, hey.
- What is that?

♪

How the hell have
you got that music on, Kia?

They don't have no stations
up here like that.

- Satellite allows you
to pick up.

- All right, so you don't put
no tape decks in cars no more.

- No, you're going to have a
hard time finding a tape deck.

- Oh, so we're rocking
like this, huh?

- Mm-hmm.

- Yeah.

♪

[vocalizing softly]

- Hi.
- How many today?

- We actually want
to take it out.

- Okay, do you know
what you want?

- No, we're going to look
at the menu.

Thank you.

Let's look at this for...
Hey, hey, hey,

let's look at this,
for the stuff we have to order.

And then you can
come back for that.

So you want meats
and stuff, right?

- Oh, wait a minute, Kia.
Look.

- That actually looks
really good.

- Oh, no, I want this.

- Get whatever you want.

- It's blowing my mind
right now, taking it all in.

Just to be free like this,
no handcuffs...

Real clothes on.

This is deep.
It's people...

people just looking at you,
talking to you.

[mumbling]
I don't know.

♪

Oh, yeah.
I remember these streets.

- You good?
- Yeah.

- Just checking out everything.
- Yeah.

- Yeah?
[chuckles]

- I used to run around
around here.

Definitely used to run around.

Old stomping grounds.

Here we go.

Damn.

[doorbell ringing]

[laughter
and indistinct chatter]

- How's my baby?

- I'm all right.

- [laughs]
- How are you?

- You're really, really here.
- I'm here.

I'm here.

- I made you food in case
you want to eat.

- Oh.

- It's so good to see you.
You look just like yourself.

- I missed you.

- I missed you so much.

- Twenty-seven years.
- I know.

- That's over, there ain't
no more mistakes being made.

That's over.
- Right, exactly.

- I can't wait to call
the police on somebody.

[laughter]

[indistinct]

What y'all out there doing?

- Missed you so much.
- I missed you so much.

I love you so much.
- Oh, I love you too, baby.

- [voice breaking]
Thank you for standing by me.

[crying]
- I know, I know, I know.

I know.
It's over with.

I told you it would be over.
I told you.

Okay?
You're all right.

You're all right.
Relax.

You know what I told you,
you're not gonna get upset,

so you won't get sick.

You're home.

You're home, baby.
You're home.

- Thank you for everything.
- I know.

I love you.

- For everything.
- I know.

And I'm still gonna
be right here, okay?

- Yeah.

- Ain't I right
where you left me?

- Yeah.
- Okay?

Told you I would be.

Come here, baby.
- [sniffling]

- You gonna be fine.

♪

- Next time on "Philly D.A."

- We want our neighborhood back!

- If folks are not being
charged, we cannot survive.

- Not one cop is gonna tell you
that he's on our team.

- If you don't have someone
there telling the story,

you're gonna lose the narrative.

- The challenge is for me
not to be me.

If you're being told by people
in law enforcement

that this D.A.'s office
will not prosecute,

you're being lied to.

♪♪

- "Philly D.A." on PBS.

- If you don't have someone
there telling the story,

you're gonna lose the narrative.

- Well, you know, there's...
There's two sides to this.

♪

- I'm gonna stand up so you can
actually see the merchandise,

as they say.

♪

- Things are unfolding
right now.

♪

- The challenge is, for me,

saying the true thing
that nobody else will say.

Yeah.