Rashawn Ray on a Year of Police Reform
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🗓️ 28 May 2021
⏱️ 29 minutes
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It's been a year since the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, and there have been a lot of police reform efforts since then. A lot of them have come to nothing, but some of them have been very productive—at the state level, in certain cities and even, to a certain extent, at the federal level. To discuss the police reform successes and failures of the last year, Benjamin Wittes sat down with Rashawn Ray, a professor of sociology at the University of Maryland and the David M. Rubenstein Fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution, who has studied police violence issues extensively and has become a prominent voice on the subject of police reform. They talked about what has worked, how close we are to federal legislation on the subject and what the holdups are, which states have made progress and how, which states haven't moved the ball and what success over the next year might look like.
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| 0:25.6 | no bull and the aftermath. |
| 0:34.1 | There is a form of policy or legislation that coincides with voting rights and also with |
| 0:43.4 | policing. |
| 0:44.5 | So in states where we see voting rights being restricted the most, those are also the |
| 0:49.7 | states that just haven't made many changes when it comes to law enforcement. |
| 0:54.7 | And that's unfortunate because what that means is that they haven't really done anything |
| 0:59.4 | or they've done things that are so long and total cold just to say they did something |
| 1:03.5 | that is not going to move the needle and make a change in all. |
| 1:07.3 | I'm Benjamin Whities and this is the LawFair podcast May 28, 2021. |
| 1:14.0 | It's been a year since the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis and there's been a lot |
| 1:20.4 | of police reform efforts since then. |
| 1:24.7 | A lot of them have come to nothing but some of them have been very productive at the state |
| 1:30.2 | level in certain cities and even to a certain extent at the federal level. |
| 1:37.4 | Joining me in the virtual jungle studio to discuss the police reform successes and failures |
| 1:42.8 | of the last year is my Brookings colleague, Rishan Ray. |
| 1:47.8 | Ray is a sociologist at Brookings and at the University of Maryland who has studied police |
| 1:54.5 | violence issues extensively and has become a prominent voice on the subject of police |
| 2:00.3 | reform. |
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