Welcome to Season 4 of Public Health On Call, a podcast from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

I'm Josh Sharfstein, Vice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement, and a former Commissioner of Health in Baltimore City.

Our goal is to bring

scientific evidence and experience to current topics in public health through engaging interviews

with scientists, community leaders, policy experts, public health officials, clinicians, and more.

If you have ideas or questions for us to cover, please email us at public health question at jhhhu.edu.

That's public health question at jhhu.edu for future podcast episodes.

Hi, I'm Lindsay Smith-Rogers, producer of public health on call. Today, as part of a periodic

series on preventing gun violence, we're handing the mic over to guest host, Dr. Daniel Webster,

director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Prevention and Policy. Let's listen.

Police violence is an important aspect of the overall problem of gun violence in the United States.

And some would say the most observable manifestation of structural racism in our

society. For this Health on Call podcast, we're joined by Tracy Mears. She's the Walton Hamilton

Professor and Founding Director of the Justice Collaboratory at Yale Law School. Professor Mears is one of the

nation's leading experts on policing and urban

communities. And based on many achievements, President Obama named Professor Mears as a member of

its task force on 21st Century Policing. Welcome to our podcast, Tracy.

Good morning, Daniel. It's good to see you. Good to see you as well.

I want to start with sort of a basic question that sometimes we see whether it's back and forth on

Twitter or in media conversations about this. Is police violence in your mind a problem of so-called

bad apples, or is it a matter of fundamental

problems with the system of law enforcement in the United States? It's a common question,

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