Ep. 562 - This American city drastically increased their police budgets and murders still DOUBLED.
The Breakdown with Shaun King
The North Star
4.8 • 12.6K Ratings
🗓️ 24 January 2022
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Why? Because policing in America is a POST-crime enterprise. They show up AFTER the crime is already complete. And so while the city struggled desperately with poverty, drug addiction, mental health issues, homelessness, and struggling schools - all which are root causes of crime, the city poured more and more of its limited money into policing. And NOTHING got better.
If we are going to be serious about public safety, pouring all of our money into policing, which already takes $789 million PER DAY in America, simply won't work.
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| 0:00.0 | Let's talk for a minute about mobile Alabama. |
| 0:04.0 | I know you weren't expecting that. |
| 0:06.0 | And I don't know if I've ever said the words |
| 0:09.0 | mobile Alabama ever here on the podcast in almost 600 episodes. |
| 0:15.0 | But I want to talk about them as an object lesson. |
| 0:19.0 | And this is not quite a critique as much as it is just a reporting of facts. |
| 0:25.0 | Over the past three years, mobile Alabama's police department and sheriff's department |
| 0:32.0 | drastically increase their police budgets. |
| 0:35.0 | But murders doubled. |
| 0:37.0 | I want to talk about why that is. |
| 0:39.0 | Let me unpack and explain it. |
| 0:41.0 | Let me say it again. |
| 0:42.0 | They drastically increase their police budget. |
| 0:45.0 | But murders doubled. |
| 0:47.0 | Let's talk about it. |
| 0:49.0 | This is Sean King. |
| 0:50.0 | And you are listening to... |
| 0:52.0 | The Break Down. |
| 0:55.0 | The Break Down. |
| 0:58.0 | The Break Down. |
| 1:01.0 | There's a lot of talk in our country right now about crime, crime rates, murder, murder rates, |
| 1:18.0 | breakings, robberies, car theft, and what it means to be safe in America, safe in your city. |
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