Checks and Balance: Minneapolice

Checks and Balance from The Economist

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🗓️ 16 June 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

There have been lots of attempts at improving American police since George Floyd was murdered by a Minneapolis cop three years ago. Reform-minded activists argue that any changes are cosmetic. Many cops think that reforms have been too sweeping. What has really happened to American policing since 2020?

The Economist’s Jon Fasman visits Minneapolis, to speak to people there about police reform. He hears the frustrations of activists from Communities United Against Police Brutality and politician Elliot Payne. Two homicide detectives, Chris Thomsen and Richard Zimmerman, explain how changes are making their jobs harder. And Mayor Jacob Frey, city councillor LaTrisha Veta and Chief of Police Brian O’Hara chart a way forward for police forces across America.

John Prideaux hosts with Charlotte Howard.

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0:37.4	The 9 City Council members stood on a raised platform in Minneapolis's Powderhorn Park.
0:43.4	A fixed to the front of the stage in large white letters were two words, defund police.
0:50.0	The City Council has pledged to do just that.
0:52.7	Less than two weeks earlier on May 25, 2020, George Floyd had been murdered by a Minneapolis police officer.
1:00.8	It was a hasty pledge, one the City Council didn't keep.
1:05.3	The past three years have, however, seen a raft of attempted reforms to America's police.
1:12.0	I'm John Prado and this is Checks and Balance from the Economist.
1:16.5	Each week we take one big theme shaping American politics and explore it in depth.
1:33.3	Today, how has American policing changed since George Floyd's murder?
1:37.9	There have been lots of attempts at improving America's police forces in the past three years.
1:50.8	Reform-minded activists argue that any change is a cosmetic and point out that police
1:55.6	killings have risen. Many cops think that reforms have been too sweeping that they've been
2:01.0	prevented from doing their jobs and that crime has risen as a result.
2:05.2	What's really happened to American policing since 2020?
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