Hello, I'm City Journal editor Brian Anderson.

Thanks for joining us for the Ten Blocks podcast featuring urban policy and cultural commentary

with City Journal editors, contributors, and special guests.

The election of Donald Trump cop, many by surprise, even as some parts of the country

are still getting used to the idea of a Trump presidency, policy analysts are already asking

what his administration will look like.

How will it behave?

What policies will it pursue?

With us to discuss the effect of Trump's election

on the always crucial issues of crime and punishment

is Heather McDonald.

Heather is the Thomas W. Smith Fellow

at the Manhattan Institute,

a contributing editor of City Journal,

and the author of the 2016 New York Times bestseller,

The War on Cops.

Heather, thank you for joining me.

Thank you, Brian, for having me on.

Now, over the last few years, the Black Lives Matter movement, as you've written, and others allied with it in the media and the culture at large, have said that cops are racist.

That's been their mantra, that they target the black community,

especially young black males, and are killing them indiscriminately and without consequences in many

cases. You've called this a false narrative. What role do you think such rhetoric played in the

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