Ep. 298 - This one step will drastically change policing forever

The Breakdown with Shaun King

The North Star

News, Society & Culture

4.8 • 12.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2020

⏱️ 19 minutes

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All across the country, cities are being forced to drastically reform the way police operate within their communities. The outcomes have been incredible, but there is one major change that must be implemented to ensure law enforcement officers can no longer abuse their power: police oversight. ----- If you listen to The Breakdown and want to help support the work we do, consider becoming a member of our Patreon at www.patreon.com/thebreakdown for exclusive members perks and early access to content. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	There's no one single magic policy that will cure police violence, police brutality,
0:09.0	police misconduct, police corruption.
0:12.0	Instead, it takes dozens and dozens of different policies
0:17.0	working in concert with one another,
0:19.0	but there's one that I think is probably as effective as anything could possibly be, and it's police oversight
0:29.3	commissions.
0:31.3	They've hardly been created the way we really need them to, but today I want to tell you how
0:36.8	we can create city by city, county by county, all over the country. Civilian-led, citizen-led police oversight commissions that actually do
0:48.0	a phenomenal job at holding police accountable.
0:52.1	This is Sean King, and you are listening to
0:54.3	The Breakdown.
0:55.8	The Breakdown.
1:00.0	The Breakdown.
1:01.0	The Breakdown. The Breakdown. This past weekend in Chicago, you might have seen this.
1:08.0	Police shot and injured a young black man in the neighborhood of Inglewood, and as reports of yet
1:18.7	another police shooting in Chicago spread, They were complicated by conflicting details about the case.
1:26.0	First people were saying that it was a young child. Then people discovered that
1:31.0	none of the police had body cameras on. Then people were arguing
1:35.2	over whether or not the young man was armed or not armed and residents quickly and it and I saw this happen literally unfold online minute by minute.
1:50.5	It went from what do you say, zero to a hundred real quick, like it got bad quickly and it was a sign of just how badly people's nerves afraid, how tired people are of police brutality, not just in Chicago, but all over the country, because normally what
2:15.8	would take days sometimes to boil over, I swear it looked in Chicago like it boiled over in minutes. And Father Flager of
2:28.8	St. Sabina Church there, he said, right now the city, this is a quote, is like a keg of dynamite.
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