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The Elite Academic Experts Propagating the Police State / Alec Karakatsanis

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🗓️ 8 November 2022

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Alec Karakatsanis joins Chuck Mertz to discuss his piece "Warning to Journalists About Elite Academia" published at https://equalityalec.substack.com/ . Alec is the founder and executive director of Civil Rights Corps and Author of Usual Cruelty. New responses to the Question from Hell and this week in Rotten History.

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0:00.0

The Lord is with Your Lord is with the.

0:13.0

I'll get our power.

0:15.0

The Lord is going to be able to

0:18.0

You're welcome, Neil. Thank you. This is hell. Live from the United States where the law is far too often the crime.

0:48.0

This is hell and as we all already knew or maybe some of us learned in the wake of the police

0:56.2

murder of George Floyd, the law far too often commits the very crimes they're supposed

1:01.2

to protect us against in order to best serve the public and its safety and security needs.

1:07.0

That is the point of having police, police.

1:11.0

So while it would only make sense that if you have more police you have less crime in

1:16.2

reality that has not proven to be the case however we expect academia and the

1:22.4

greatest intellects to guide us by applying the scientific

1:25.5

method.

1:26.5

That is the process of objectively establishing facts through testing and experimentation, making

1:31.2

an observation, forming a hypothesis, making a prediction, conducting an experiment,

1:35.6

and finally analyzing the results, thus determining which policy is best when considering,

1:40.9

in this case, criminal justice and law enforcement policy.

1:44.8

But what if those trusted experts, those elites are far from being objective in their examination

1:51.0

of an issue that affects us all. What if rather than offering evidence

1:56.4

to support any claims they make, they instead engage in hyperbole and conjecture and wrap

2:01.1

it all up in an article published by an academic journal to give their findings some level of gravitas

2:06.4

leading those in the media to believe their findings are in fact

2:10.5

factual when in reality their findings are far from being based on reality.

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