Policing The Police 2020

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🗓️ 25 September 2020

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

George Floyd’s killing triggered mass demonstrations nationwide calling for racial justice and police accountability in the United States. In the wake of those protests, New Yorker writer and historian Jelani Cobb returns to a troubled police department he first visited four years ago (Policing the Police) to examine whether reform can work, and how police departments can be held accountable.

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0:00.0	Thanks for listening to the Frontline Audio Cast, the enhanced audio version of our documentaries.
0:06.0	We also produce a podcast, The Frontline Dispatch, including an episode with Policing the Police 2020 correspondent, Jolani Cobb.
0:14.0	The Frontline Dispatch is available wherever you get your podcasts.
0:18.0	Right now, here's the audio cast of Policing the Police 2020.
0:30.0	The Frontline Dispatch is available on the website, www.JolaniCobb.com
0:40.0	The country is on fire and they're anger is directed at law enforcement officers.
0:47.0	A national outcry and one police force trying to change can this be done in a way that still respects people's rights.
0:55.0	New Yorker writer Jolani Cobb investigates.
0:58.0	For our police must and what people really want is they don't want to be murdered, running from an traffic stop with the next little because of a $20 bill.
1:07.0	They don't want to be murdered.
1:08.0	Now on Frontline, Policing the Police 2020.
1:14.0	Frontline is made possible by contributions to your PBS station from viewers like you.
1:19.0	Thank you. And by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
1:22.0	Major support is provided by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world.
1:30.0	The Fort Foundation, working with visionaries on the front lines of social change worldwide,
1:35.0	additional support is provided by the Abrams Foundation, committed to excellence in journalism.
1:40.0	The Park Foundation dedicated to heightening public awareness of critical issues.
1:45.0	And by the Frontline Journalism Fund, with major support from John and Joanne Hakeler,
1:50.0	and additional support from Laura DeBomis and Scott Nathan.
1:53.0	Policing the Police 2020 is supported by Chasing the Dream, a public media initiative from the WNET Group in New York that examines poverty, justice and economic opportunity in America, with funding by the JPP Foundation.
2:15.0	Please, please, please, please, get them get in the car.
2:21.0	I can't move.
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