Do Not Defund: Roland Fryer and Rafael Mangual on Crime and Policing in the 21st Century

Uncommon Knowledge

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🗓️ 3 August 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Together, Roland Fryer and Rafael Mangual take a close look at what is and is not working in policing and law enforcement, in some cases citing statistics and research they have personally conducted. They also make the case that most people, regardless of race or economic status, want safe neighborhoods and cities and explain why the defund movement is not popular among them.

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0:00.0	From the website of Black Lives Matters,
0:03.0	enough is enough, we call for a national
0:06.0	defunding of police, close quote.
0:09.0	Over the past couple of years,
0:10.0	crime has been rising in city after city,
0:13.0	but the time has come to spend less on cops.
0:17.0	Two experts are about to sort that out,
0:19.0	Roland Friar of Harvard and Raphael Mangual
0:23.0	of the Manhattan Institute.
0:25.0	Uncommon knowledge now.
0:27.0	Music
0:37.0	Welcome to Uncommon Knowledge. I'm Peter Robinson.
0:40.0	We're shooting today at the Old Parkland Conference Center in Dallas.
0:44.0	Roland Friar grew up in Louisville, Texas,
0:47.0	not that far from where we are right now.
0:50.0	After his father went to prison,
0:52.0	Friar became a troubled teenager,
0:54.0	then he discovered academics and turned around.
0:58.0	He studied the University of Texas and Penn State
1:01.0	and at the age of 30,
1:03.0	became a tenured professor at Harvard.
1:05.0	In 2015, Roland Friar received the John Bates Clark Medal,
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