The Toxic Combo Behind Colorado’s Police Shootings
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🗓️ 1 July 2020
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Colorado has one of the highest rates of officer involved shootings in the country. After looking at the data, reporters from Colorado Public Radio found that the problem is exacerbated by a complex mix of meth addiction, illegal firearms, and car theft.
Guest: Allison Sherry, Reporter for Colorado Public Radio
This episode originally aired in February 2020.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, Mary here with a quick announcement. The What Next Crew is on vacation for the holiday, |
| 0:05.9 | so we're going to re-air a couple of episodes from our archives today and tomorrow. Today's show |
| 0:11.3 | is one I've been thinking about a lot over the last few weeks. It came to us from Colorado |
| 0:15.9 | Public Radio reporter Alison Sherry. She wanted to understand police shootings in her state after a black man named |
| 0:23.6 | Yvonne Bailey got killed back in 2019. So she and some colleagues said about meticulously |
| 0:30.4 | chronicling every death they could find, trying to understand what went wrong and why. And while race is a major focus of the protests against police brutality that are going on right now, |
| 0:43.3 | the data Allison compiled it revealed how drugs and guns play an important role in how police respond when confrontations escalate. |
| 0:53.2 | Okay, here's the show. when confrontations escalate. Okay. |
| 0:54.9 | Here's the show. |
| 1:02.0 | Can you tell me again about the spreadsheet? |
| 1:03.0 | Like, do you have it in front of you? |
| 1:03.9 | Do you have a computer with you? |
| 1:04.8 | I do. |
| 1:05.9 | I do have it in front of me. |
| 1:06.2 | Yeah. |
| 1:07.2 | Can you pull it up? |
| 1:08.5 | Yes. |
| 1:12.0 | Alison Sherry is a reporter at Colorado Public Radio. |
| 1:16.8 | It sounds like you've just been like living your life in this spreadsheet for six months. |
| 1:23.9 | I have. I have. It's kind of weird, but it's cool. I'm proud of our work, so. |
| 1:32.2 | Allison is proud of the hours she's spent working on this spreadsheet, despite the fact that the data inside it is grim. |
| 1:34.7 | Each row represents a single person, and each person is the victim of an encounter with |
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