How the NYPD Gets Away With It
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🗓️ 25 June 2020
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
It was Halloween night when Eric Umansky’s wife asked him to go see what was happening around the corner from their home. She had just seen an unmarked NYPD patrol car strike a black teenager and officers had pinned another group of black kids against the wall of the local theatre. Eric arrived on the scene just as three of those kids were being arrested – ages 15, 14, and 12.
Eric didn’t intend to step out of his home and into a months long reporting project, but that’s precisely what happened as he began to investigate what happened that Halloween night in Brooklyn. The story he surfaced puts in stark display the system that protestors all over the country are rallying to fix.
Guest: Eric Umansky, Deputy Managing Editor at ProPublica.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everyone. We drop a couple of F-bombs in this episode, so get those earmuffs ready. |
| 0:10.7 | ProPublica editor Eric Umansky lives in one of those New York neighborhoods you see on TV, |
| 0:16.5 | the ones with well-manicured stoops and a lot of good places to eat. It's called Carroll Gardens. |
| 0:23.0 | But in the last few months, he's been thinking about the way the cheerful facades all around him separate people, |
| 0:31.2 | subtly cutting off the white residents from the black ones. |
| 0:35.9 | The segregation, it can be hard to see because everyone lives so close together. |
| 0:41.5 | But it's there. |
| 0:43.0 | You can quantify it. |
| 0:44.7 | Where I am, I actually looked up our census track, |
| 0:48.2 | which is just a few blocks directly around me. |
| 0:52.2 | Three black residents. |
| 0:53.8 | Three? |
| 0:54.7 | Three. Whoa. Three? Three. |
| 0:56.1 | Whoa. |
| 0:57.6 | Eric's been thinking about this since last year, |
| 1:00.8 | Halloween night. |
| 1:02.5 | Ironically, it is one of the days |
| 1:04.1 | the neighborhood feels like it isn't segregated. |
| 1:07.2 | Kids from all over pack the streets, |
| 1:10.0 | looking for those big candy bars. |
| 1:12.5 | There's a parade. |
| 1:14.3 | But last Halloween, Eric's wife and daughter, Sarah and Alice, they saw a scene they just couldn't shake. |
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