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It Could Happen Here

The Socialists Who Want 500,000 More Cops Part 1: Lying With Statistics

It Could Happen Here

Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts

Politics, Daily News, News, Society & Culture

4.06.5K Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2022

⏱️ 49 minutes

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We look at a recent call by two Harvard academics, one of whom is on the editorial board of Jacobin, for 500,000 more cops to end mass incarceration

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1:39.4

It's the podcast. It's it could happen here. It is about something that could happen here very specifically.

1:52.4

Yeah, I'm I'm Christopher Wong. I'm here with James Stout and Garrison Davis. Hello. Hello to you both.

1:59.4

I like we all joined the sum call that that did happen here and that did show everybody. All right. Okay. So that's a thing that did happen here. Now we're going to talk about something that could happen here.

2:09.4

And okay, that specific thing is a call by two Harvard academics to hire 500,000 more cops. Nope. So okay.

2:20.4

Okay, I don't know when this is going to go up, but sometime in the past there was a piece that went viral by civil rights lawyer and antipresent activists turned media critic, Alec Carric-Atonis about a pair of Harvard academics, yeah, who wrote this article calling for 500,000 more cops.

2:36.4

And this is okay. Like the fact that we have academics writing position papers basically that are calling for 500,000 more cops is terrifying in and of itself.

2:46.4

But but crime is is is that a record high? Garrison, you're about to see shit. You're about to see you're about to see in here shit that is going to make your fucking ears bleed because it's not shit. Like, okay, normally these are Harvard academics, right?

3:02.4

So you're assuming these are like right wing that set ghouls right or like the equivalent in in in this sort of like, yeah, you know, these are not this was written by a socialist.

3:12.4

And when I say a socialist, right, like I don't mean a sort of like one of the sort of like terminally online desperate cranks trying to hold together like a Maoist micro sect.

3:22.4

I'm talking about people who are incredibly well connected inside the mainstream socialist left. So the authors of this call for 500,000 more cops are Christopher Lewis, who is a Harvard law professor who makes be embarrassed to have my own name.

3:36.4

And more interestingly, Harvard sociology professor, Audiner, who's to me? So who is Audiner, who's to me? He is on the board is only editorial board of catalyst, which is a Marxist man.

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