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City & State featured Haub Law Professor David Dorfman in "Is DA Eric Gonzalez progressive enough for Brooklyn?"
Though progressive prosecutors differ in some areas of emphasis, David Dorfman, a professor of law at Pace University, said they all embrace community engagement and restorative justice, which focuses on repairing the harm done by a crime rather than punishing the offender.
“Gonzalez has obviously very self-consciously associated himself with a national trend towards what they call ‘progressive prosecutors,’” Dorfman said. “Whereas I think DA Gonzalez is innovative and different in some ways, most of the things that he has been proposing and pushing – especially in the Justice 2020 action plan – very much follow patterns you’re seeing elsewhere.”
