4.8 • 880 Ratings
🗓️ 20 June 2018
⏱️ 67 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hey Music Lover, it's time for Somme Tom Bona jamming to some yot rock |
0:07.9 | Gone old school with some beep up open for fun bingo 90 if you like your tunes more vibies, |
0:14.4 | playing can be exciting till you feel the need for dancing. |
0:18.3 | Here we go! |
0:19.3 | I'm for a drum and bass! |
0:21.3 | Oh, just 110 pounds! Tom Bola! This is a conversation that changed how I think about American policing. |
0:37.0 | I sat down with two current NYPD officers who kept it really real. |
0:42.8 | You are being told, go arrest a bunch of young black men. |
0:50.0 | Yes, we are. |
0:51.0 | We're not kidding to arrest white kids and ruined their futures. |
0:54.2 | We knew that, but you don't usually hear officers say it. |
0:58.6 | That's the kind of candor I got from officers, Edwin Raymond, and Derek Waller, who are part of a 12 officer lawsuit against |
1:06.4 | the NYPD, alleging that officers are given quotas. The number of people they have to arrest, and give summonses to for each month. |
1:15.6 | If they don't meet their number, as cops say, they're punished. |
1:20.6 | And with cops pressure to be harsh on black suspects and leaning toward white ones, |
1:27.0 | we have a system where officers are incentivized to arrest black youths for anything. It's not about bad apples. It's about a |
1:35.4 | policing system that sends officers chasing after black people. I understood |
1:41.6 | all that before but I had not heard it quite laid out in that way by people inside policing. |
1:49.0 | I didn't know that the department would prefer that officers make arrests versus stopping crime. |
1:56.2 | Departments only care about the quantity of arrests, not the quality of them. I didn't know that and this blew my mind that officers |
2:06.6 | know that the police are not here to protect and serve. They're here to generate revenue for the city or the state or |
2:17.0 | the department. Most people learned about for-profit policing from Ferguson, Missouri, where we saw that the city was |
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