How Cop City Perpetuates Over-Policing and Environmental Racism | Beyond the Scenes

The Daily Show: Ears Edition

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🗓️ 22 May 2023

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

The Atlanta Public Safety Training Center, also known as “Cop City,” has sparked controversy among Atlanta natives. Although it’s meant to improve the training conditions of police officers and firefighters, the social and environmental effects of this center can be damaging to communities surrounding it. Atlanta-based journalists George Chidi and King Williams join Roy Wood Jr. to dive deeper into “Cop City” and how it's affecting folks in Atlanta. Original Air Date: April 11, 2023 Beyond the Scenes is a podcast from The Daily Show. Listen to new episodes every Tuesday wherever you get your podcasts, or watch at YouTube.com/TheDaily Show See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to Comedy Central.
0:02.8	BAM!
0:03.8	Welcome to Beyond the Scenes.
0:13.3	The podcast that goes a little deeper into topics and segments that originally aired on
0:18.2	the Daily Show.
0:19.2	This is what you got to think of this podcast as, right?
0:21.6	Okay.
0:22.6	Like, you know you got prom, right?
0:24.2	You go to your senior prom, you have a good time at the dance.
0:27.5	This podcast is everything that happens after the prom.
0:30.7	We're the party bus.
0:31.7	We're the take us to the club.
0:33.7	We're the fight at Waffle House.
0:35.1	Don't worry, we still gonna get your home by midnight and your daddy ain't gonna know
0:37.7	that you're too up to touch see doing your ruin his deposit.
0:40.4	This week, we're delving a little deeper into a topic that we just recently discussed
0:46.3	on the show.
0:47.3	I went down to Atlanta to learn about a place called CAHPS City.
0:51.1	CAHPS City is a training facility that's being presented as the new way to train Atlanta's
0:56.6	police and fire departments, but CAHPS City's brought a lot of controversy.
1:01.9	Give it a clip.
1:02.9	Atlanta's busy downtown descended into chaos over the weekend.
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