Coming Soon: Changing The Police
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🗓️ 12 July 2022
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| 0:00.0 | It's been more than two years since George Floyd was murdered by a police officer. |
| 0:05.7 | A moment that became part of a bigger movement to fundamentally change policing in this country. |
| 0:15.2 | Some people say we should do away with the police and start over from scratch. |
| 0:20.0 | Yeah, I'm absolutely talking about abolishing police. It starts with abolishing violence and police |
| 0:25.2 | brutality. Some say we should move money away from the police and put it into social service |
| 0:31.2 | programs instead. And a lot of people say what we have to do is reform the police we already have. |
| 0:41.6 | You know, we need to call for police reform. This is the reform and accountability. |
| 0:45.6 | They do not plan to stop until police reform happens. But what does that even mean? |
| 0:51.6 | How does police reform work? Does it work? To answer these questions, we teamed up with the |
| 0:59.2 | Marshall Project and spent a year looking at one police department in the city of Yonkers. |
| 1:06.6 | A police department with the history of misconduct. We do not want to see police violence |
| 1:13.9 | because that's what we're seeing. But a department that also says it's now reforming. |
| 1:19.2 | We are a profession. It's not just a job. We are a profession. So we watched that reform process. |
| 1:25.3 | It's all training cops not to reach for their guns and shoot people. |
| 1:29.2 | Like you're f**king s**t. |
| 1:30.0 | Sharaan, you better relax. You better relax. |
| 1:32.5 | People are our clients. Let's make sure that they walk away being satisfied. |
| 1:37.4 | Before you try to fix what is wrong today, you have to travel back inside and fix what happened then. |
| 1:43.0 | We did travel back and did some digging. And then we started learning about the bad apples of |
| 1:48.2 | that era. And I started to notice a pattern. A lot of people got beaten in our community. |
| 1:53.9 | A lot of people. If you go and talk to those people, you may hear more things. |
| 1:57.5 | The police beat me. The police beat me. Ma. The police beat me. |
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