No Crime Day (1986) w/ Josh Levin

This Day in Esoteric Political History

Jody Avirgan & Radiotopia

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🗓️ 27 September 2022

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

It’s September 27th. This day in 1986, NBA star Isaiah Thomas promoted “No Crime Day” in the city of Detroit.

Jody, Niki, and Kellie are joined by Slate’s Josh Levin to talk about the effort, how it represented the approach to drugs and violence in the 1980s, and the legacy of Thomas’s initiative.

Josh and his team have a full episode on No Crime Day in the latest season of Slate’s “One Year” podcast.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to this day in Esoterik political history from Radiotopia.
0:07.0	My name is Jody Avergan.
0:11.0	This day, September 27th, 1986, NBA Star Isaiah Thomas, point guard for the Detroit Pistons,
0:18.9	has an idea for the city of Detroit. Thomas has launched a community event called No Crime Day.
0:25.2	I don't think I need to explain much more about the concept.
0:28.0	Thomas was encouraging the entire city to go one day without committing crimes.
0:32.4	Detroit and many other cities were suffering
0:34.7	from high levels of crime and violence in this era. This was Thomas's attempt to work with
0:39.2	city and community leaders to shine a light and effect some change. He tried to get other
0:44.0	NBA players in cities involved but generally this was a Detroit focused
0:48.2	initiative one that I would say has largely been forgotten until maybe recently because Josh Levine of
0:54.8	Slate is the host of their series one year which focuses on a bunch of stories from an interesting
0:59.9	year the latest season full of stories from 1986, including the tale of No Crime Day.
1:06.4	And Josh, you've been on the show a bunch of times, but welcome back.
1:09.7	Thanks for doing this.
1:10.7	Always great to be here, Jody. Hi Jody. And I will say that the season on
1:15.6	1986 is just wrapping up now so you can go and listen to that not just a no
1:19.7	crime day episode or all sorts of other stories. With us, as always are Nicole Hammer of Vanderbilt
1:25.1	and Kelly Carter Jackson of Wellesley.
1:27.1	Hello there.
1:27.9	Hello, Jody.
1:29.0	Hey there.
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