This is the Kaderie Daily Podcast for Monday, March 29th, 2021.

I'm Caleb Brown.

In the struggle for reform to policing in America, what exactly is the Black Police experience?

Sonia Pruitt is a retired captain from the Montgomery County, Maryland Police Department.

We discuss the Black Police experience and why an end to qualified immunity could help shore up public support for cops.

What is the black police experience?

I know that question probably covers a lot of ground, but first that's your organization but what what is the black police

experience as an experience? Yes as an entity because I struggled with what to call it an organization and effort. I mean I didn't know what to call it but it is an experience. It is a collection of experiences from not only black police officers, but from

researchers, from grassroots advocates, and the whole goal of the black police experience is to educate, to educate people,

to educate police officers,

whoever is interested in the conversation

surrounding the intersection of race and policing,

especially when we talk about vulnerable communities like the black community.

When you and I spoke a few weeks ago, we talked a little bit about the Castle Doctrine and your argument that for many black Americans it's not a real thing.

Can you do, can you unpack that a little bit?

Just a little bit.

So the case that comes to mind of course is the Brianna Taylor case

Brianna Taylor has not received justice nor her family friends loved ones and in

that case a SWAT team burst into her home and she was shot and killed as her boyfriend tried to defend the home, which is the basis of the castle doctrine, that you have a right to defend your own

home. And so the argument usually on the police side is they didn't comply. Well, if they don't

know it's the police breaking into their home, how can they comply?

I mean, what sense does that make, right?

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