Lawfare Archive: Rashawn Ray on Police Violence
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🗓️ 4 February 2023
⏱️ 54 minutes
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From June 3, 2020: Dr. Rashawn Ray is a David M. Rubenstein fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution. He's also an associate professor of sociology at the University of Maryland, College Park, where he directs the Lab for Applied Social Science Research (LASSR). He is a scholar of, among other things, police-civilian relations and has done a lot of work on police-involved killings. He joined Benjamin Wittes to discuss the mechanisms of police violence, what causes it, what can be done to address it and reduce it, and the role of race in this problem. They talked about police unions, implicit bias, the difference between legality and morality in police shootings and what policy levers are available to bring an end to the rash of police killings.
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| 0:25.6 | no bull and the aftermath. |
| 0:39.8 | I'm Avery Schmitz. |
| 0:41.0 | Internet LawFair would be an episode from the LawFair Archive for February 4, 2023. |
| 0:47.6 | The police killing of 29-year-old Tyree Nichols in Memphis last week has reignited long-standing |
| 0:53.4 | calls for national police reform. |
| 0:55.7 | To contextualize this recent tragedy and attempts to end discriminatory law enforcement |
| 1:00.0 | practices, I chose an interview for today's archive episode from June 3, 2020. |
| 1:06.3 | In the episode, Benjamin Wittis sat down with Rashan Rae to discuss mechanisms of police |
| 1:11.3 | violence, potential policy solutions and more. |
| 1:24.9 | I'm Benjamin Wittis and this is the LawFair podcast June 3, 2020. |
| 1:30.8 | Dr. Rashan Rae is a David M. Rubenstein fellow in governance studies at the Brookings |
| 1:36.2 | Institution. He's also an associate professor of sociology at the University of Maryland |
| 1:42.8 | College Park where he directs the lab for applied social science research. |
| 1:48.6 | He is a scholar of among other things, police civilian relations and has done a lot of |
| 1:54.5 | work on police involved killings over the years. |
| 1:58.5 | He joined me today in the virtual jungle studio to discuss the mechanisms of police violence, |
| 2:06.0 | causes it, what can be done to address it and reduce it, and the role of race in this |
| 2:13.2 | problem. |
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