47 min listen
476. What Are the Police for, Anyway?
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Length:
46 minutes
Released:
Sep 23, 2021
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Podcast episode
Description
The U.S. is an outlier when it comes to policing, as evidenced by more than 1,000 fatal shootings by police each year. But we’re an outlier in other ways too: a heavily-armed populace, a fragile mental-health system, and the fact that we spend so much time in our cars. Add in a history of racism and it’s no surprise that barely half of all Americans have a lot of confidence in the police. So what if we start to think about policing as … philanthropy?
Released:
Sep 23, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode
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