SIO245: Brandon J. McKoy on #defundthepolice

Serious Inquiries Only

Thomas Smith

News, News Commentary, Politics

4.6 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2020

⏱️ 61 minutes

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We're joined this week by Brandon J. McKoy! He's the president of the New Jersey Policy Perspective, a think-tank whose focus is policy change to advance economic justice and prosperity. We discuss what #defundthepolice means to different advocacy groups, what it might look like in practice, and what other potential policy might lead to better policing in this country.

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0:00.0	You're listening to serious inquiries only. Oh, Hello and welcome to serious inquiries only this is episode 245. I'm Smith that's Jamie Lombardi how you
0:34.7	doing Jamie oh you know I'm plaguing along yeah just keep plaguing I guess that's a good
0:41.7	good way to do it.
0:42.6	Just keep playing.
0:44.6	How are you, Thomas?
0:45.4	I am similar, similar, but I'm very excited because we have another guest today.
0:50.4	I'm very excited.
0:51.4	Why don't you introduce our guest? We do. We have one of my
0:54.6	favorite people on Twitter today. We have Brandon J McCoy, who is the chief
0:59.8	executive of New Jersey Policy Perspective.
1:02.8	He is a graduate of the 2013 class of the New Leaders Council
1:06.9	and currently serves on Good Jobs First,
1:09.3	Shelter Force, and the I am Trenton Community Foundation. He received an MA in City and Regional Planning and
1:15.1	Policy Development from Rutgers University's Edward J Blastein School of Planning and Public
1:20.2	Policy and holds a BS degree in Social psychology from the College of New Jersey.
1:24.3	Welcome, Brandon.
1:25.3	Thank you.
1:26.3	Nice to be with both of you today.
1:27.3	How are you?
1:28.3	Very excited to dig into all of the weird economics of defunding the police and what that means and for
1:36.2	you to try to help us understand what is actually at stake here.
1:40.3	Oh yeah definitely it's a little bit of a top of the mind conversation, I suppose.
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