473 - Police Legitimacy and Reform Two Years after George Floyd's Murder
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 25 May 2022
⏱️ 18 minutes
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In June 2020, amid #BlackLivesMatter protests across the country, law professor and philosopher Ekow Yankah of Yeshiva University talked with Dr. Josh Sharfstein about the crisis of legitimacy in policing and opportunities for reform based on public health approaches. Two years later, Yankah returns to the podcast to discuss how and why the optimism of the protests has receded.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Season 5 of Public Health On Call, a podcast from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. |
| 0:13.0 | I'm Joshua Sharfstein, Vice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement, and a former |
| 0:19.1 | health commissioner here in Baltimore, Maryland. |
| 0:21.7 | Our goal with this podcast is to bring scientific evidence and experience to shed light on critical |
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| 0:42.7 | Hi, I'm Lindsay Smith-Rogers, producer of Public Health on call. We'll be off for Memorial Day and return on June 1st with season 6. |
| 0:51.0 | This summer, we'll continue to talk about living with COVID and the shift from pandemic crisis to endemic virus. |
| 0:57.0 | We'll also continue to follow breaking news around new variants, the future of reproductive health and the Supreme Court, |
| 1:04.0 | and humanitarian crises in Ukraine and around the world. |
| 1:07.0 | We'll look at other urgent public health issues, including racism, gun violence, |
| 1:11.9 | mental health, climate change, and overdose. And of course, we'll continue to cover the need |
| 1:17.1 | for investments in public health infrastructure and surveillance for future pandemic threats. |
| 1:22.6 | As we wind down season five, we have a few thank yous. First, huge thanks to our interns, Crystal |
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| 2:07.2 | Back in June 2020, not long after the murder of George Floyd, I interviewed Professor Echoyanka, a legal scholar and philosopher at Yeshiva University. |
| 2:12.3 | Our conversation covered the crisis of legitimacy facing the police and the potential role of public health approaches in meaningful change. |
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