“Charm City,” Part 2: The Legacy of Zero-Tolerance Policing

The Daily

The New York Times

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🗓️ 5 June 2018

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Relations between the police and the community in Baltimore weren’t always so troubled. But as job loss and drugs tore through the city, the policing idea of so-called zero tolerance, transplanted from New York City, created a generation of young men with criminal records. For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily. This episode includes disturbing language and scenes of graphic violence.

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0:26.0	From the New York Times, I'm Michael Barbaro.
0:33.0	This is The Daily.
0:36.0	Today.
0:37.0	Part 2 in our series on race and policing in Baltimore, after Freddie Gray.
0:45.6	The story of how relations between the police and the community fell apart, told through
0:52.4	three generations of the same family.
0:59.4	It's Tuesday, June 5th.
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1:37.6	Yeah, I grew up in this neighborhood and it wasn't anything like this.
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