From K-QED.

Hey everyone, a quick heads up.

This episode deals with themes of racism and police violence.

Earlier this year, people across the country took to the streets to demand justice for George Floyd, a black man killed by police in Minneapolis.

Say his name!

George Floyd.

Who they kill?

George Floyd.

Who they kill?

At a startling number of these protests, videos emerged of violent confrontations between police officers and protesters.

Now in many of those videos the police are wearing body armor they have

weapons in hand guns Guns, tasers, batons. They move with

choreographed precision. They respond with an amount of force that, at least from what we can

see in the videos videos looks unwarranted.

Seeing these videos got today's question asker Blake Schmidt wondering how did our police come to look and

act so much like the military it seems like we just put this militarization in front

and we say you know we're just going to squash it with

tear gas and force clearly there's a lot of issues with doing that.

Blake was doing some reading about the history of policing in America when he came across this guy from Berkeley,

August Volmer. Volmer served as the town's first police chief, but he's known nationwide

as the father of modern policing.

Blake was surprised when he read about Fulmer.

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