Dr. Chenjerai Kumanyika
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first heard Sep 2024
last heard Sep 2024
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but because it's an easy way for them to arrest vulnerable people and get their numbers and their quotas up.
Has it always been this way?
Well, you have to look at the data.
I mean, broken windows policing has been debunked.
It's been debunked as a way, you know, as a method.
What it results in is people being stopped and frisked, particular neighborhoods being targeted, but it is not responsible for crime going down.
And I just want to also say this, right?
Like, when you talk critically about police officers, it can sound like you're saying, oh, I think each individual officer is evil, right?
I don't think that.
I think policing is a job that working class people can get.
And I know a lot of folks put on that uniform because they want to help.
But here's the problem.
When you can't speak out about something that's wrong because you're upholding that blue wall of silence.
And then the incident that happened is, here's the facts.
These officers went into that subway stop and shot four people.
That's the facts.
If you can't speak out and speak on those facts, if you can't express outrage to those families who had people hurt, then you have to own that now.
So I'm not just saying that just because you got the uniform on, there's a problem.
The problem is that that uniform wraps you in a culture where you can't even acknowledge wrongdoing and problems.
That is, I mean, that's, but that's a, you know, as somebody who's working and studied, been studying the history of the police, you know, that sort of reasoning that the cop feared for his life as a justification for taking other people's lives goes all the way back over 100 years, you know.
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