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Toure Show

Inside The NYPD

Toure Show

DCP Entertainment

Performing Arts, Arts, Society & Culture

4.8880 Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2018

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Two current NYPD officers on why the police function the way they do. This conversation really changed my mind about the way policing really works. I didn’t really understand the police until this interview. Policing is not about protecting and serving. It’s about revenue collection. And the bosses would rather cops make arrests than stop crime because arrests are quantifiable. Let me know what you think. Twitter: @toure. Toure Show Ep 34 Inside the NYPD Host & Writer: Toure Producers: Chris Colbert, Chris Basil Assistants: William Jolley, Shelby Royston, Candid Nicole Photos: Chuck Marcus Video: Jason Wallace The House: Cadence 13 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Support the show: https://www.dcpofficial.com/toureshow See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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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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