Ep. 641 - Police DO NOT make cities safer. Here are the 3 things that do.

The Breakdown with Shaun King

The North Star

News, Society & Culture

4.8 • 12.6K Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2022

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

We all deserve to be safe in our homes, neighborhoods, and communities. And we all want this. But it is NOT police that make communities safe.

STOP FALLING FOR THIS LIE. The safest communities in America hardly have police. They have these 3 things...Wealth, access to resources, and quality education from pre-school to grad school. That's ACTUALLY what makes communities safe.

Let me unpack and explain it.

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0:28.6	eligibility and teasing.
0:30.5	I have to teach us a very important lesson today
0:33.9	because I see people are falling for
0:37.5	a very terrible response to crime.
0:41.6	And if you've been a long time listener of the podcast,
0:44.4	you've heard me teach a version of this
0:46.2	but I'm gonna be unmistakably clear today.
0:49.6	Police do not prevent crime.
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