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Hello, and welcome to the B-side for episode 1640 of our national conversation about conversations about race.

What do you mean community policing?

I'm Anna Holmes, here with a couple of very special guests. First off, I'm thrilled to introduce

WEN-2. She is the founder of I Am Asian American and movement to mobilize Asian-American

millennial voters. Hi. Hi. Also joining us is Amy Choi of the Mashup Americans, a media

company that explores race, culture, identity, and what makes us who we are.

Hello.

Welcome to you both.

So on our last episode, we discussed the Mike Pence, Tim Cain, vice presidential debate and drilled out on the one thing.

They kind of sort of agreed on the idea and the importance of community policing.

As always, we invited listeners to weigh in with emails and voice memos at showaboutrace

at gmail.com. So, as always, here's our producer, A.C. Valdez with some of what you all had to say.

Hey, Anna. Hi, everybody. How's it going? Hi. Hello. So I want to start off with this email from Monty in Indiana. We were talking specifically about Mike Pence and his community policing stance. And Monty had this to say. You asked in the last episode about Mike Pence's claim that so-called community policing works in the Hoosier state, my short answer is, hell not.

A study done last year found that in Indianapolis, black people were three times more likely to be arrested than white counterparts, despite making up only one-fourth of the population.

Additionally, months ago, an Indianapolis man was shot by police after calling them to report his wife being robbed at gunpoint. When you move beyond the capital, it gets even worse. In Carmel,

a wealthy city just 30 minutes north of Nap Town, black people are six times more likely to be

arrested than whites. The rates in Johnson County, just south of Indianapolis, are also highly

disproportional. I attend college in the county, and I can tell you firsthand the relationship is badly damaged. I've had police stop me a half a dozen times when I, a white driver, was with a car full of friends of color simply to ask if I was doing okay tonight. Indiana, like so many other states, has a mountain of work ahead of it to

improve policing. I realize nationally, many people are just getting to know Mike Pence,

but as a Hoosier, let me give you the spark notes. He's full of shit. From the religious

freedom restoration act to the attempted denial of Syrian refugee families to his comments on

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