Police Reform Is Coming. What Should It Look Like?

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New York Times Opinion

Society & Culture, Ross Douthat, News, New York Times, Journalism

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🗓️ 28 April 2021

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Derek Chauvin has been found guilty of the murder of George Floyd. But whatever bittersweet feelings the rare outcome elicited were short-lived, since instances of police brutality compound almost daily. There’s no debate: Policing is broken in America. But how do we fix it? To answer that question, Jane brings together a round table to debate solutions ranging from modernizing training, stronger ties between police misconduct and financial culpability, and divesting from policing to invest in community-based services. Joining Jane is Randy Shrewsberry, a former police officer and the executive director of the Institute for Criminal Justice Training Reform; Rashawn Ray, a professor of sociology at the University of Maryland and a David M. Rubenstein fellow in governance studies at the Brookings Institution; and Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson, a leader in the Movement for Black Lives and an executive director of the Highlander Research and Education Center in Tennessee.

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0:00.0	Today on the argument, policing is broken, so how should we fix it?
0:09.0	I was the jury, I understand you haven't heard it.
0:14.7	Breaking news, former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin has been found guilty in
0:22.9	the death of George Floyd.
0:27.7	A phone video of Floyd's death horrified Americans and galvanized a nationwide social
0:32.2	justice movement leading to protests in cities across the country and those calls for police
0:38.0	reform.
0:39.0	A measure of justice isn't the same as equal justice.
0:44.8	This verdict brings us a step closer.
0:48.1	We still must reform the system.
0:51.3	Killed by police, less than two days after the palpable relief felt over the guilty verdict
0:57.0	in the Chauvin trial, the Minneapolis area in mourning again as the family of Dante Wright
1:03.1	held his memorial service.
1:09.1	Last week, an anxious America waited the jury's decision.
1:13.2	Officer Derek Chauvin was convicted on all charges for the murder of George Floyd.
1:18.5	But whatever feelings greeted such a rare outcome were short-lived for many.
1:24.0	The next day of Virginia man named Isaiah Brown was on the phone with 911 police dispatch
1:28.9	when a sheriff's deputy shot him ten times, allegedly mistaking the phone for a gun.
1:34.6	It feels like every day in America there's a new name to learn.
1:38.7	New footage of lethal police violence to witness.
1:42.0	Another community in mourning, pleading for change.
1:45.9	There's no debate here, policing in America is broken.
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