Behind the News: Police Against Protest
Jacobin Radio
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4.7 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 9 September 2021
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Doug speaks with Paul Passavant, author of Policing Protest, on the change in how cops treat protesters since the 1960s. Plus: Marisol Cantú and Shiva Mishek (co-author of this article: https://jacobinmag.com/2021/08/richmond-california-police-rpd-defund-budget-social-services-progressive-alliance-city-council) on how activists won a shift of public funding from cops to social services in Richmond, California.
Behind the News, hosted by Doug Henwood, covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex interactions, from the local to the global. Find the archive here: https://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html
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| 0:33.0 | Hello and welcome to Behind the News. |
| 0:35.0 | My name is Doug Henwood. |
| 0:36.0 | Two segments today both centering on cops. |
| 0:38.0 | We'll hear from Paul Passiveant on how US police forces came to treat peaceful protesters so brutally. |
| 0:44.0 | And then we'll hear from Marius Alkanto and Shiva Misek on how Richmond, California managed to shift money away from the cops |
| 0:50.0 | towards more humane pursuits. |
| 0:52.0 | The urban uprising to the 1960s prompted then President Lyndon Johnson to appoint a commission, |
| 0:57.0 | headed by the Governor of Illinois, Otto Kerner, to investigate their causes. |
| 1:02.0 | The commission's explanations focused on poverty, police brutality, and racism. |
| 1:06.0 | That marked the high point of official decency on these topics. |
| 1:09.0 | Soon after its release, Richard Nixon became president and instituted a long period of reaction. |
| 1:15.0 | Now, routine policing is an exercise in constant violence and protest is repressed vigorously. |
| 1:21.0 | How did this happen? |
| 1:22.0 | With some answers, he has Paul Passiveant, an associate professor of political science, |
| 1:26.0 | at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, New York, |
| 1:29.0 | an author of policing protests, the post-democratic state, |
| 1:32.0 | and the figure of black insurrection just out from Duke University Press. |
| 1:36.0 | So to find the roots of current police and punishment practices, |
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