Ep. 506 - Police don't make us safe

The Breakdown with Shaun King

The North Star

News, Society & Culture

4.8 • 12.6K Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2021

⏱️ 12 minutes

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While I'm on the road this week, the staff at The North Star will be playing re-run episodes of The Breakdown as well as some of our favorite episodes from some of our other podcast series. Thanks for tuning in!

Across the country, as certain types of crime have increased, people are defaulting to the same tired answer we've seen before... more police and more money for the police. But this actually doesn't work. At all. And for Black communities, it can actually make things much worse.

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0:30.2	Hey everybody, Sean King here.
0:32.0	We're rerunning some of our favorite episodes of The Breakdown
0:35.4	and other North Star podcasts.
0:37.7	The Breakdown.
0:41.0	If crime is up in your city,
0:44.5	first I want to ask you to make sure that crime,
0:47.7	all crime is actually up.
0:50.1	But if it's up,
0:51.6	let me tell you, and I mean this from the bottom of my heart,
0:56.2	that does not mean that the police in your city or your county need more money.
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