Historian and Journalist Jelani Cobb on New Frontline Documentary ‘Policing the Police 2020′

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🗓️ 11 September 2020

⏱️ 54 minutes

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In the new Frontline documentary “Policing the Police 2020,” historian and journalist Jelani Cobb returns as a correspondent, taking viewers inside a U.S. police department. The current wave of protests against police brutality and calls to defund the police prompted the update to Frontline’s 2016 documentary, “Policing the Police,” which focused on reform efforts at the Newark, N.J. police department. In the 2020 sequel, premiering Sept. 15 on PBS, Cobb revisits the Newark police department to illustrate the broader challenges the nation faces in eradicating police brutality, improving public safety and establishing a more just society. In this hour, we’ll talk to Cobb about the film and whether America can change for the better. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:06.3	Four years ago, New Yorker writer Jelani Cobb visited Newark, New Jersey's troubled police department,
1:10.1	where there was little trust between the city's police force and black community.
1:16.9	Now, as the killing of George Floyd has triggered mass protest and calls for racial justice and police accountability,
1:23.3	Cobb has returned to Newark to see if the department, which implemented several reforms, has really changed. His new documentary with Frontline, Pol the Police 2020 premieres next week.
1:29.0	Cobb joins us next on Forum after this news.
1:51.2	This is Forum. I'm Mina Kim. In a new frontline documentary, historian and journalist Jelani Cobb returns to Newark, New Jersey's police department to see if anything has changed
1:56.9	as protests calling for racial justice and police accountability in the killing of George Floyd and Brianna Taylor continue.
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