BONUS - Reducing Law Enforcement Violence and Building Trust
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 10 June 2020
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
Leaders of the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research Dr. Daniel Webster and Dr. Cass Crifasi have studied the relationships between communities and police forces for years. The researchers, with colleagues, recently released a new report looking at enforcement of gun laws in Baltimore. In the wake of the homicide of George Floyd and drawing on this report, Webster and Crifasi talk with Dr. Josh Sharfstein about the profound loss of trust between minority communities and the police and the role of greater transparency and accountability to move forward.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Public Health On Call, a new podcast from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. |
| 0:12.1 | I'm Josh Sharfstein, a faculty member at Johns Hopkins, and also a former health commissioner in Baltimore City. |
| 0:18.6 | Until now, our sole focus has been COVID-19. We are broadening |
| 0:22.3 | the podcast to other urgent public health issues, beginning with racism, police violence, and the |
| 0:27.7 | national protests over the homicide of George Floyd. In this episode, I speak with Professor |
| 0:32.9 | Daniel Webster and Assistant Professor Cassandra Krafasi of the School of Public Health |
| 0:38.5 | about the homicide of George Floyd in the context of their research about distrust in |
| 0:43.1 | the police in Baltimore and beyond. Let's listen. Dr. Webster and Dr. Krafasi, thanks so much |
| 0:50.5 | for joining me. I want to start with the killing of George Floyd. |
| 0:55.3 | When you saw that video, what was going through your mind? |
| 1:00.3 | For me, it was among the most cruel and horrific things |
| 1:06.2 | that I've seen. |
| 1:07.7 | And the other thing that was going through my mind was that the nation was watching |
| 1:15.6 | this. And particularly, black people who have had a lot of bad experiences with police that very |
| 1:27.4 | clearly devalue their lives and that this would be among |
| 1:33.4 | the most powerful ways that that could be demonstrated, a total of disregard for George Floyd's |
| 1:43.2 | life. |
| 1:52.6 | And despite the pleas of from the man trying to breathe, but also from onlookers. |
| 2:08.3 | So to me, it underscores what's been a problem for very long, but in the most, again, dramatic fashion that I think maybe any of us have seen. |
| 2:09.8 | Dr. Krapasi. |
| 2:19.0 | For me, that video evidenced the callous disregard for the health and safety and well-being of black and brown bodies that many communities experience on a daily basis. This video really captured a lack of respect |
| 2:27.4 | for individuals in this community that someone could just simply snuff out a life like that |
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