A Conversation About Economics, Policing, and Race With Morgan Williams Jr.

The Bakari Sellers Podcast

The Ringer

Politics, News

4.8 • 966 Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2021

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Bakari is joined by Morgan Williams Jr., a postdoctoral fellow at NYU, to talk about a recent paper he released on how the size of a police force impacts Black residents (5:00), some of the findings from his research that surprised him (16:30), and how his research fits into the overall "defund the police" debate (28:27). Read the paper here. Host: Bakari Sellers Guest: Morgan Williams Jr. Producer: Kaya McMullen Engineer: Isaiah Blakely Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to another episode of the Bakari Sellers podcast. Today on the show we have a brilliant
0:16.1	I mean the dude is just so dope and so bright you're gonna learn so much about race and
0:20.4	policing and economics.
0:23.0	I mean he's an economist and he talks about the data behind how we
0:27.6	police in this country.
0:28.7	Morgan Williams, Morehouse, grad scholar, college professor, and economists who's written some brilliant work on
0:36.4	policing and race in America. But before we get to Morgan, I guess we have to talk
0:42.0	about the biggest news of the day and no it's not
0:44.7	Donald Trump's organization being indicted and his CFO being indicted as well
0:50.0	But it's Bill Cosby and I think that we have to start off with the simple fact that Bill Cosby is a rapist.
0:58.0	Today's ruling did not exonerate Bill Cosby.
1:02.0	He was not found not guilty of the charges. did not of Mr. Cosby over the years.
1:13.0	I think we have to understand where this stems from.
1:16.0	This stars back in 2005 when there was a complaint from Andrea Constand
1:21.0	that Bill Cosby had sexually assaulted her. In that case,
1:26.3	solicitors and prosecutors determined that there was not enough viable evidence
1:30.5	to move forward with a criminal proceeding.
1:33.4	Do you want to know who the district attorney was in that time?
1:37.4	Donald Trump can never escape us.
1:38.8	His name was Bruce Kaster.
1:40.0	You may remember him from representing Donald Trump in the impeachment
1:43.7	hearing but I digress. There was also a civil proceeding going on
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