Alex Vitale on abolishing the police
Tangle
Isaac Saul
4.8 • 672 Ratings
🗓️ 25 April 2021
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
In today's podcast, we're sitting down with Alex Vitale, the author of The End of Policing and an advocate for abolishing the police. We spoke about how he defines the movement he is behind, what changes he'd prioritize, and whether we can expect these changes to happen. He also shared his thoughts on the Derek Chauvin verdict.
You can find Alex's book here and his Twitter profile here.
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| 0:56.3 | Good morning, good afternoon, and good evening. Welcome to the Tangle podcast, a place where you get views from across the political spectrum, some reasonable debate and independent thinking without |
| 1:01.2 | some of the hysterical nonsense you find everywhere else. I am your host, Isaac Saul, and in today's |
| 1:06.9 | episode, we are sitting down with Alex Vitale. Alex is a sociology professor at Brooklyn |
| 1:13.0 | College and the coordinator of the Policing and Social Justice Project at Brooklyn College. |
| 1:18.0 | He is the author of the book, The End of Policing, and one of the most essential reads on |
| 1:23.5 | the abolition of police in the U.S. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, The Nation, |
| 1:28.8 | USA Today, many others. Alex, thank you so much for being on this show. It's great to have you here. |
| 1:34.3 | Oh, well, you're most welcome, Isaac. So there are so many places we could start. You know, |
| 1:39.8 | obviously police reform is a huge issue in America right now. It's at the front of everybody's |
| 1:44.4 | mind with the Derek Chauvin case. I read your book last year, which I enjoyed a lot. I |
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