Rashawn Ray on Police Violence
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🗓️ 3 June 2020
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Dr. Rashawn Ray is a David M. Rubenstein fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution. He's also an associate professor of sociology at the University of Maryland, College Park, where he directs the Lab for Applied Social Science Research (LASSR). He is a scholar of, among other things, police-civilian relations and has done a lot of work on police-involved killings. He joined Benjamin Wittes to discuss the mechanisms of police violence, what causes it, what can be done to address it and reduce it, and the role of race in this problem. They talked about police unions, implicit bias, the difference between legality and morality in police shootings and what policy levers are available to bring an end to the rash of police killings.
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| 0:25.6 | no bull and the aftermath. |
| 0:34.0 | She literally shakes her dog to make her dog yelp to actually call the police and make |
| 0:40.2 | it seem like that he that Christian Cooper who was a black man was doing something physical |
| 0:44.2 | to her. |
| 0:45.2 | And one thing that black Americans know is that the Christian Cooper incident, which unfortunately |
| 0:50.3 | happens more often than people think that that sort of incident starts to continue |
| 0:56.2 | a month police violence and brutality that oftentimes ends up like what happened to George |
| 1:02.4 | Floyd. |
| 1:03.6 | So yes, we have the killings, but we also have everyday normal mundane ways that policing |
| 1:10.6 | operate in society that is highly based on which. |
| 1:14.9 | I'm Benjamin Widis and this is the LawFair podcast June 3rd, 2020. |
| 1:20.9 | Dr. Roshan Rae is a David M. Rubenstein fellow in governance studies at the Brookings Institution. |
| 1:27.3 | He's also an associate professor of sociology at the University of Maryland College Park |
| 1:33.8 | where he directs the lab for applied social science research. |
| 1:38.6 | He is a scholar of among other things, police civilian relations and has done a lot of |
| 1:44.6 | work on police involved killings over the years. |
| 1:48.6 | He joined me today in the virtual jungle studio to discuss the mechanisms of police violence. |
| 1:56.1 | What causes it? |
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