Death, Sex & Money - I Killed Someone. Now I Study Police Violence.
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4.2 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 18 November 2020
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
A former police officer talks about shooting someone, and how it led him to study why and how often police killings happen.
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| 0:00.0 | A warning. This episode contains a graphic description of gun violence. |
| 0:06.0 | Every police-related death, I mean, it's like, the person dies, their family is devastated, |
| 0:14.0 | it screws with the police officer that ended up doing it. |
| 0:17.2 | It changes the culture of that squad, that whole community. |
| 0:21.2 | And then now, as we've seen with these videos, it can impact, you know, the stability of the country. |
| 0:30.4 | This is Death, Sex, and Money. |
| 0:34.2 | The show from WNYC about the things we think about a lot and need to talk about more. |
| 0:41.2 | I'm Anna Sale. |
| 0:50.2 | In the past few years, Tom Baker has spent hundreds of hours reading about police shootings |
| 0:56.4 | and watching videos of them. |
| 0:58.8 | If anything trends on the internet in terms of officer-involved shootings, I've seen it. |
| 1:05.7 | So I spend a lot of time watching these videos. |
| 1:09.6 | Tom is a Ph.D. student at the University of Missouri at St. Louis. |
| 1:13.5 | He's studying criminology and criminal justice, |
| 1:16.4 | and he's focusing on police use of force. |
| 1:19.5 | He recently combed through every police-related death in the United States in 2017, |
| 1:24.9 | more than 1,800 incidents, some of which were on camera. |
| 1:29.1 | And the goal is to identify patterns and maybe things that police are doing that could be |
| 1:37.2 | changed in some fundamental way or maybe just tweaked in a slight way so that you |
| 1:43.7 | reduce the number of officer-involved shootings |
| 1:48.0 | and police-related deaths. |
| 1:50.3 | This research is personal for Tom, because in 2009, while he was a police officer in Phoenix, |
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