Ep. 558 - America is addicted to policing to solve EVERY problem

The Breakdown with Shaun King

The North Star

News, Society & Culture

4.8 • 12.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2022

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Last week a woman was pushed onto the train tracks and killed in New York. And immediately people began calling for more police as the solution, but that station was full of police already - including right there where the crime happened. We can solve this problem, and SO many other problems with non-policing solutions, but America's addiction to policing and mass incarceration literally prevents it from solving so many challenges

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0:20.4	If you follow me on Instagram or Facebook you might have seen me just post
0:25.3	about something truly horrible that happened last week in New York at the time square train station
0:32.2	the subway station for those of you who aren't from New York at the time square train station
0:38.0	a woman was pushed onto the tracks before a train came and was killed horrible period point blank
0:46.4	no excuses the man who did it was a homeless man struggling with mental illness and he was caught
0:56.0	immediately everybody knew it and yet the primary answer that most people are giving
1:05.1	on how to prevent something like that from happening again is more police I want to tell you
1:12.2	I wanted to say I want to tell you why that's dumb but I want to tell you why it's misinformed
1:18.5	why it misses the point and how not just on this situation but on situations like it
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