Ep. 426 The Shocking Kill Rate of American Police
The Tom Woods Show
Tom Woods
4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 17 June 2015
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
The kill rate of American police will surprise you. Ed Stringham gives us the data, as well as the radical libertarian solution.
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| 0:00.0 | The Tom Woods Show, episode 426. |
| 0:03.9 | In a world of Democrats, there will be time for them to make profits. |
| 0:08.7 | Now is not that time. |
| 0:09.8 | And Republicans have abandoned free market principles to save the free market system. |
| 0:15.7 | You need a voice of liberty. |
| 0:18.5 | Look no further. |
| 0:20.2 | You've found it. Tom Woods. Beware, citizen, you are now |
| 0:27.0 | departing from the world of allowable opinion. The Tom Woods Show. Hey everybody, Tom Woods here. |
| 0:39.6 | Talking about the police today, we're talking about America's out-of-control cop-kill rate |
| 0:44.1 | and an article written by our guest, Ed Stringham, which, of course, we will link to on the show notes page for today, which is tomwoods.com slash 426. |
| 0:55.9 | We're going to talk about that and what can be done about it from a libertarian perspective, of course. And for today, of course, |
| 1:02.2 | we're welcoming back Ed Stringham. Ed is just finishing up his tenure as associate professor |
| 1:07.5 | of business economics in the area of energy, economics, and law in the Rawls |
| 1:11.9 | College of Business at Texas Tech University. But he's recently gotten some wonderful news about a |
| 1:17.3 | great new position. He will be taking up in the fall of this year, 2015, at Trinity College |
| 1:24.2 | in Connecticut, and I will be asking him to tell us a little bit about that later on in our conversation. |
| 1:30.0 | Ed is editor of the Journal of Private Enterprise. He's a research fellow of the Independent Institute, |
| 1:35.9 | and he is the author, most recently, of the forthcoming private governance and economic inquiry in the mechanisms of privately produced order. |
| 1:45.7 | Published by Oxford University Press, that will be linked to also on today's show notes page, |
| 1:51.2 | Tom Woods.com slash 426. And also on that page, we will link to, again, related episodes. |
| 1:57.0 | We'll link to the Bruce Benson episode on private police. |
| 2:00.3 | Great stuff to check out on the show notes page. |
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