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The Breakdown with Shaun King

Ep. 116 - We need fewer police officers

The Breakdown with Shaun King

The North Star

News, Society & Culture

4.812.6K Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2019

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Did you see the horrible abuse by the NYPD of teenagers on the subway? One reason that happened is that New York simply has too many police officers. The whole country does. And until we drastically reduce that number, they will always find people to arrest and brutalize. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

On BBC A

0:02.0

I am doing life a few more years means nothing to me

0:06.0

I'm pregnant

0:08.0

judges go easy I'm pregnant women

0:10.0

I've been old my electricity that's all

0:12.0

don't think I should even be in here.

0:14.0

A new series of the Baffa Award winning time.

0:18.0

You tell anyone and I mean anyone about me I will kill you. Starring Jody Whitaker tomorrow Lawrence and

0:26.0

Bella Ramsey. Time. Watch on BBC I Player Our country needs drastically fewer police.

0:40.0

If you listen to the last episode of the breakdown, I asked the question, what's our plan?

0:46.4

How are we going to change this thing that people call the criminal justice system, the legal

0:50.0

system?

0:51.0

Well, part of that that plan and this is much more revolutionary to say today

0:57.4

than I think it will be in two years or five years or ten years, we have too many police officers. I mean we have two to three times the

1:07.8

number of police that we actually need in this country. And here's what I know.

1:12.1

As long as we have this many police, they will

1:16.2

always find people to arrest. It's the adage, if you build it, they will come.

1:24.1

If you hire them, they will arrest.

1:27.1

And as much as we want to reduce the number of people

1:31.4

in America's jails and prisons prisons which we should all want.

1:35.1

There's some organization saying we should definitely cut it in half.

1:38.9

I think we should probably aim for more like 80 to 90 percent, fewer people in jail in prison.

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