EP # 008 | Why We Need Police
Just Thinking Podcast
Darrell Harrison & Virgil Walker
4.9 • 4.3K Ratings
🗓️ 5 January 2018
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
We are all familiar with the adage, “What goes around, comes around.” That seems to be the case in Baltimore, where many black residents and social activists who, subsequent to the death of Freddie Gray in 2015, were demanding the removal of police from their communities, are now pleading for the return of police to those same neighborhoods in response the skyrocketing murder rate in that city. On this episode of Just Thinking, Darrell and Virgil discuss this topic through the lens of the gospel, including the fundamental question of why we need police in the first place. Also, Virgil lamens the loss of his beloved Oklahoma Sooners to Darrell’s Georgia Bulldogs in the Rose Bowl and the fact that his Sooners will have to wait another year to contend for a national championship.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Just Thinking! With host Dera Harrison and Virgil Walker bringing you week-to-week |
| 0:15.6 | cultural apologetics as well as social issues from a biblical worldview. This is Just Thinking. |
| 0:22.2 | Let's think. |
| 0:28.9 | We're back! It's a brand new year, man. 2018. And I'm pumped to be here. I'm Virgil Walker. |
| 0:37.9 | And I'm Dera Harrison. What up, Vduv? |
| 0:40.1 | It's all you, man. It's all you, man. Jumping head-to-head. |
| 0:42.7 | And Dr. You says last year, man. Right? |
| 0:46.9 | Which was last week. |
| 0:51.5 | Well, for those who are new and checking in for the first time, we're the Just Thinking podcast, man. |
| 0:57.1 | And I am very proud to play the wingman in this operation, man, as we move forward and do our thing. |
| 1:05.2 | I know we got some big things teed up for 18, man. I'm expecting God just to continue |
| 1:11.3 | just shining on what we've got going, man. The whole bar podcast team and some of the great |
| 1:17.3 | things that are getting ready to transpire, man. It's really, really exciting to be a part of this |
| 1:22.1 | network. It's exciting for me to be connected with you, Dera, with all the stuff you've got, |
| 1:26.5 | bro and man. It's a true blessing. |
| 1:28.9 | Yeah, same here, Vduv, man. Isn't it interesting, man? We turned the page on another calendar year. |
| 1:34.4 | And it's so sad, right? So we tend to, maybe in a couple of days, leading up to the end of the |
| 1:41.2 | year, you know, up to New Year's Eve and then you go into New Year's Day, we tend to have a |
| 1:46.5 | moment or two, maybe several moments of reflection, not just on the year that's now coming and |
| 1:52.5 | gone, but really a lot of cases on our entire lives and what our lives mean at a certain point or |
| 1:59.2 | whatnot, you know, there may be those who make that same reflection either in the context of the |
| 2:07.6 | God of the Bible or outside of that context, but usually not long after New Year's Day, we tend to |
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