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Toure Show

Policing During Corona

Toure Show

DCP Entertainment

Society & Culture, Arts, Performing Arts

4.8880 Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2020

⏱️ 36 minutes

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In the frightening era of Coronavirus, the NYPD are on the front lines helping fight this battle. My friend Lt. Edwin Raymond polices in Brooklyn and says he normally encounters 3 dead bodies a week but nowadays he’s seeing 9 or 10 dead bodies a week. The police have a critical role in this moment—should they continue making arrests for small, non-violent incidents when that means people go to jail where they are hypervulnerable to Coronavirus? Should they arrest people for not practicing social distancing when that means they become hypervulnerable to Coronavirus? Should the police be scared that they could be spreading the virus? I talk about all of that and more with Lt. Raymond who’s long been fighting from within the force to make policing safer and more equitable. He’s been critical to helping decrease the use of quotas—for more on his movement to help reform the department, check out the amazing documentary Crime + Punishment. Patreon.com/toureshow Instagram @toureshow Twitter: @toure Toure Show Ep 129 Host & Writer: Toure Senior Producer: Jackie Garofano Assistant Producer: Adell Coleman Editor: Ryan Woodhall Photographers: Chuck Marcus and Shanta Covington Booker: Claudia Jean The House: DCP Entertainment 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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But this week I want to focus on another sort of essential worker on the front lines of the

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Corona fight, the New York City police officer.

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If New York is the epicenter, then Brooklyn and Queens are the epicenter of the epicenter, dealing with more cases per capita than any other borough.

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And the officers patrolling Brooklyn and Queens can't practice social distancing.

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My friend Lieutenant Edwin Raymond says on a normal week he sees about three dead bodies, but suddenly

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in the era of Corona it's upwards of 9 or 10 or more. And lots of cops are getting it, and lots

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more cops are calling out sick. Should they, right now, be arresting people for petty crimes and bringing them to

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jails where the chance of getting Corona is high? Should they be arresting people

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