Ep. 571 - 2021 was the deadliest year for police violence ever measured
The Breakdown with Shaun King
The North Star
4.8 • 12.6K Ratings
🗓️ 10 February 2022
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
It's catastrophic news that confirms our worst fears that mass incarceration itself is exploding right before our eyes. Police violence is but one reliable indicator of this.
Today I'll unpack and explain what this means and give some initial thoughts on where we go from here.
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| 0:00.0 | Some final numbers were just released by the Washington Post on the number of people |
| 0:07.3 | killed by police in 2021. |
| 0:11.1 | Their final conclusion at the Washington Post is that last year was actually the deadliest |
| 0:18.3 | year of police violence they've ever measured. |
| 0:21.4 | I'll unpack and explain it. |
| 0:23.8 | I know it's a downer. |
| 0:25.5 | Let's talk about it. |
| 0:27.0 | Let's talk about where we go from here. |
| 0:28.7 | This is Sean King and you are listening to... |
| 0:32.4 | The Break Down. |
| 0:34.4 | The Break Down. |
| 0:38.7 | The Break Down. |
| 0:41.9 | The Break Down. |
| 0:51.2 | Maybe you haven't heard me say this phrase in a while, but it's really one of my most |
| 0:56.3 | important positions in terms of how I view and see the world. |
| 1:02.1 | It's hard to understand a moment in history when you're in it. |
| 1:07.6 | When you're right in the center of a moment, in the center of a trend, it's hard to understand |
| 1:13.9 | where you are or aren't in that trend. |
| 1:18.0 | And it's hard to understand while you're in a moment that you are in the middle of |
| 1:25.7 | the deadliest year of police violence in recent American history. |
| 1:33.3 | According to the latest numbers from the Washington Post, which has been tracking cases of police |
| 1:38.4 | violence since 2015, 2021 is now the single deadliest year they've measured since they've |
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