Amid rising violence, a look inside the possible return of stop-and-frisk in Philadelphia
On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti
WBUR
4.3 • 3.9K Ratings
🗓️ 27 July 2022
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
There were more than 560 homicides in Philadelphia last year. Now, some elected officials are calling for the return of a controversial policing tactic: stop-and-frisk. Sammy Caiola, Shira Scheindlin and Councilman Isaiah Thomas join Meghna Chakrabarti.
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| 0:00.0 | I remember when my uncle Mitch was murdered, |
| 0:04.6 | and it was an early morning, and I was at my grandma's house. |
| 0:08.8 | And I remember hearing her scream. |
| 0:12.4 | I never heard my grandma voice like that ever in my life. |
| 0:19.4 | Tireek Glasgow was eight years old when his uncle was murdered |
| 0:26.4 | in Philadelphia. |
| 0:28.2 | Tireek was raised by his grandmother, a woman of faith. |
| 0:31.6 | He says she prayed for strangers as much as she prayed for her own daughter. |
| 0:37.7 | My grandma raised us in the church, and every time I went here, her voice |
| 0:42.4 | said, was a song. |
| 0:44.9 | It was her dear friend, so her acknowledge, |
| 0:47.6 | and the work of sometimes testifying to some of the trials and |
| 0:52.4 | tribulations that she'd been through, that our family |
| 0:55.1 | been through, that she did just one last old account. |
| 0:59.2 | But this sound was different. |
| 1:02.5 | The sound wasn't about bringing hope. |
| 1:06.3 | This wasn't a sound that was about praise. |
| 1:10.8 | She was looking for something, and it wasn't there. |
| 1:15.3 | And I remember going to the room, and my aunt's |
| 1:18.6 | they kind of pulled out the way, and I just sit next door. |
| 1:23.7 | I never really got it until, you know, I grew up, |
| 1:32.0 | and I was stood there, you know, he was killed in front of his door. |
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