Rejecting The Wrong Questions
Pod Save the People
Pod Save the People
4.7 • 8.8K Ratings
🗓️ 31 October 2017
⏱️ 88 minutes
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FTC Commissioner Terrell McSweeny joins to talk with DeRay about how antitrust and consumer protection affects our daily lives. Then DeRay speaks with St. Paul mayoral candidate Melvin Carter about his campaign and the recent racist attacks by the St. Paul police union. And Brittany, Sam, Clint and DeRay discuss this week’s intense news cycle.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, this is Durey and welcome to Potsy of the People. |
| 0:04.6 | This episode there's a lot going on. |
| 0:06.4 | So we have Terrell McSweeney, one of two commissioners on the Federal Trade Commission. |
| 0:11.1 | We also have Melvin Carter, who is a candidate to be the next mayor of St. Paul, Minnesota. |
| 0:16.8 | And then we have the news of me, Brittany Sam and Clint as always. |
| 0:20.0 | Before we get in, I'll just say a word about asking the right question. |
| 0:23.3 | So we know that questions often frame the way that people enter into conversations and |
| 0:27.3 | certainly the way that they think about the solutions and that choosing the right question |
| 0:31.4 | and rejecting the wrong question is actually a lot of power and it's important. |
| 0:35.5 | So P. West all the time, how do we build trust between communities and law enforcement? |
| 0:40.3 | And the reality is that that's the wrong question. |
| 0:42.3 | We should reject that question. |
| 0:43.6 | That the right question is how do we make sure that law enforcement earns the respect |
| 0:49.1 | and trust of communities? |
| 0:51.6 | And the importance of that reframing is that it puts a responsibility where the responsibility |
| 0:55.5 | should lie. |
| 0:56.5 | And that's with law enforcement that communities and law enforcement are equally responsible |
| 1:00.6 | in these moments. |
| 1:01.6 | The law enforcement has the power. |
| 1:03.5 | They have the institutional backing to inflict good or pain in communities. |
| 1:09.0 | They're responsible for doing things that allow people to trust them if that's possible |
| 1:12.7 | at all in some circumstances. |
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