June 14, 2020 | America's grim exceptionalism in policing; a Covid-success story from Europe

Fareed Zakaria GPS

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🗓️ 14 June 2020

⏱️ 39 minutes

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While Italy and Spain hover near 250,000 Covid cases, Greece has only had 3,000. What did it do right? Fareed talks to the Greek Prime Minister. Then, America’s grim exceptionalism - in policing. Rates of fatal shootings by American police are almost 70x those in the UK and more than 20x those in Germany. What makes American policing different? Also, is American policing systemically racist? Fareed explores the question with a professor whose work is studying such issues. Finally, the view from abroad: America's adversaries are celebrating its unrest. What will become of U.S. soft power? Guardian columnist Natalie Nougayrède and FutureMap founder Parag Khanna discuss.

GUESTS: Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Rosa Brooks, Paul Hirschfield, Phillip Atiba Goff, Natalie Nougayrède, Parag Khanna.

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0:00.0	This is GPS, the global public square. Welcome to all of you in the United States and around the world.
0:08.0	I'm Farid Zakaria, coming to you live from New York.
0:12.0	On Today's show, American exceptionalism is working in police shootings.
0:19.0	Police in the United States fatally shot about 1000 people in 2018.
0:26.0	That is more than 20 times the rate in Germany and almost 70 times the rate in the United Kingdom.
0:34.0	Why?
0:36.0	Also, Italy and Spain have had tough times with COVID, almost a quarter of a million cases each.
0:44.0	But across the Ionian Sea from Italy's Booth, Greece has had only 3000 cases.
0:53.0	What did that southern European nation do right?
0:58.0	I will talk to the Prime Minister.
1:03.0	Finally, it's graduation season on the Internet, at least.
1:08.0	I'll give grads my thoughts and share some of the smartest I've seen.
1:16.0	But first, here's my take.
1:18.0	In much of the developed world, the COVID curve has flattened.
1:22.0	But this obscures a tragic reality.
1:25.0	The second phrase of the crisis has begun as the virus is now spreading to the developing world.
1:31.0	11 of the top 12 countries with the largest number of new confirmed infections are now from emerging economies,
1:38.0	led by Brazil, India, Russia, Pakistan and Chile.
1:42.0	The resulting devastation will likely reverse years if not decades of economic progress.
1:49.0	For a while, it appeared that the developing world was being spared the worst of the pandemic.
1:54.0	According to a Brookings report, as of April 30th with 84% of the world's population,
2:00.0	low income and middle income countries were home to just 14% of the world's known COVID-19 deaths.
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