A Critical Conversation About Racial Profiling and Police Reform Episode Summary This is an intimate conversation from the perspective of Todd Davis, a Black Man in the United States of America who shares the racial profiling he has experienced from police and Dave Smith, a White Man who served as a Captain in the LA Police Division and who fought for accountability and reform within the department. I am extremely grateful to both of these men for their honesty, transparency and vulnerability at a critical time in systemic change for racial justice. Show Notes: * Consent * A normalized conversation on police interaction for BIPOC * Practicing servant leadership in the LAPD * Dave's involvement with the Rodney King investigation * Living with the boogie man * A mental prison - work, relationships, nighttime * The Warren Christopher Report * Police misconduct and lack of accountability * "Everything we see today, we've seen before" * Use of tactics in the police system * Us against them mentality * Unprovoked police interactions - stop and frisk era * Loss of self in racial profiling * The power of partnership with community leaders * Loyalty to your crew * What is leadership? * A growing distrust for the police * Defunding and re-allocating funds for social systems * Transparency in complicity * Same cops, same stories * Toxic police culture * If internal affairs works, it's too late * "We need this moment" * "I started profiling myself" * Trauma re-triggered today * Community over currency * "This is life and death" * "We need to bear witness to what is right" Links Mentioned: * Todd Davis * https://www.facebook.com/ToddSocial * Warren Christopher Report * https://www.hrw.org/legacy/reports98/police/uspo73.htm * Up First, Bonus: American Police * https://www.npr.org/2020/06/06/871447408/bonus-american-police * Trevor Noah - Goods Cops and Bad cops * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpXXUC623ow&feature=youtu.be * Confessions of a Former Bastard Cop * https://medium.com/@OfcrACab/confessions-of-a-former-bastard-cop-bb14d17bc759 * National Police Accountability Project * https://www.nlg-npap.org * Campaign Zero * https://www.joincampaignzero.org * Color of Change * https://colorofchange.org * Justice for George Floyd * https://www.change.org/p/mayor-jacob-frey-justice-for-george-floyd * Fight for Breonna * https://www.change.org/p/andy-beshear-justice-for-breonna-taylor * Thoughtful Conversations About Whiteness with Good Friends and Cats * https://therawandwildhearts.com/2020/02/09/thoughtful-conversations-about-whiteness-with-good-friends-and-cats/

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