Political Gabfest - Is Police Reform Possible?
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🗓️ 2 February 2023
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
This week, David Plotz, John Dickerson, and Emily Bazelon discuss the killing of Tyre Nichols; violence interruption efforts–with guest Alec MacGillis; and the upcoming State of the Union.
Here are some notes and references from this week’s show:
Jamelle Bouie for The New York Times: “The Police Cannot Be a Law Unto Themselves”
Radley Balko for The New York Times: “Tyre Nichols’s Death Proves Yet Again That ‘Elite’ Police Units Are a Disaster”
Alec MacGillis for The New Yorker and ProPublica: “Can Community Programs Help Slow the Rise in Violence?”
Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration, by Emily Bazelon
Here are this week’s chatters:
John: The Fight of His Life: Inside Joe Biden's White House, by Chris Whipple; The Gatekeepers: How the White House Chiefs of Staff Define Every Presidency, by Chris Whipple
Emily: Deep Cover: Never Seen Again podcast; Dan Charnas: Breaking Atoms: The Hip Hop Podcast
David: City Cast Madison; City Cast Portland; Demon Copperhead, by Barbara Kingsolver
Listener chatter from David Foreman: Artnet News: “See Scores of Unbuilt Frank Lloyd Wright Structures That Have Been Computer-Rendered With Incredible Realism”
For this week’s Slate Plus bonus segment David, John, and Emily discuss The Banshees of Inisherin.
Tweet us your questions and chatters @SlateGabfest or email us at gabfest@slate.com. (Messages may be quoted by name unless the writer stipulates otherwise.)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gap Fest. |
| 0:16.8 | February 2nd, 2023, the IS Police Reform Even Possible Edition. |
| 0:22.7 | I'm David Plott, CityCast, shaking off a little bit of a cold, so my voice sounds funny. |
| 0:29.0 | I'm in Washington, D.C., you know who's not in Washington, D.C., John Dickerson at CVS |
| 0:33.6 | Prime Time. |
| 0:34.6 | Hello, John Dickerson in New York. |
| 0:35.6 | Hello, David. |
| 0:36.6 | I'm not in D.C., but I will be next week for the State of the Union. |
| 0:40.0 | Oh, well, if you have a minute, yeah, I'll be here, too. |
| 0:44.6 | Also not in D.C., nor in New Haven is Emily Bazelon of the New York Times Magazine |
| 0:50.2 | and Yale University Law School. |
| 0:51.6 | She is in the alternate universe of Berkeley, California. |
| 0:55.6 | It's so nice to be here and it's nice to see you guys. |
| 0:58.7 | This week on the Gap Fest, the murder of Tyrene Nichols in Memphis is another ghastly |
| 1:03.5 | reminder of America's fundamental policing crisis. |
| 1:06.1 | How can we make it better? |
| 1:08.0 | Can we make it better? |
| 1:10.0 | Then Alec McGillis will join us to discuss his fascinating article in New Yorker about |
| 1:14.5 | violence, interrupter programs, and the efforts to use early interventions to reduce |
| 1:19.7 | urban violence. |
| 1:21.5 | And then Joe Biden prepares to visit Kevin McCarty's house for the State of the Union |
| 1:26.3 | next week. |
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