This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Saturday, March 13th, 2021.

I'm Caleb Brown.

Today marks one year since Louisville Police broke into Brianna Taylor's apartment and shot her dead.

It's promising that lawmakers in Kentucky and other

states appear to at least want to look like they're doing something about abusive

police practices, but Peter Kraska a criminologist who studies police militarization and who worked on the Brianna Taylor case,

says the institutional failures that led to Brianna Taylor's death were manifold and not easy to fix.

We spoke earlier this week.

So here we are a year since Brianna Taylor's killing.

What have we learned?

What is the public aware of that they that they really weren't aware of

on March 13th 2020. You know I was testifying yesterday at the Kentucky

at a Kentucky congressional hearing and I was really surprised at how many of the people listening

admitted they didn't know anything about this they had never heard anything about it and of course we had

Attica Scott in the room and Charles Booker and both of these people are

African American and have a lot of real world experience with the kinds of things that goes on in the crime fighting venue.

And they both you could tell were just a little surprised but of course not very surprised that

the people that were questioning us and talking to us were just so completely ignorant about these issues. And of course they've lived these experiences, they've watched them firsthand, they know that their aunt, for example, had a no-knock drug raid done against her household. They, you know, have lived this. And so I think the first thing that's I think really important is the

Brianna Taylor tragedy has really increased a profile of this particular problem and I think a lot more people recognize it,

which is strange for me because I've been doing it now for 25 years and you know the first case I worked on I was asked by the Modesto Police

Department to talk to their officers and sort of debrief some people on what had happened there.

It was a horrible situation and then I've, since that time,

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