Welcome back to 10 blocks. This is Brian Anderson, the editor of City Journal.

Joining me on today's show is Rafael Manguel.

He's been on the show before.

He's the Nick O'Neill Fellow at the Manhattan Institute,

head of research for MI's Policing and Public Safety Initiative,

and a contributing editor to City Journal.

He's also the author of the brilliant book, Criminal Injustice, and he's on today to discuss

the state of crime and policing in the U.S. and his recent piece, brutal but atypical on the

police killing of Tyree Nichols in Memphis. So Ralph, welcome. Thanks for joining us.

Last Friday, the city of Memphis released harrowing video footage of five police officers beating Nichols,

who had been pulled over on suspicion of reckless driving.

Nichols collapsed repeatedly as the officers were delivering kicks,

blows to the head, baton strikes. Tragically, he died three days later. As you noted in your

city journal piece, reactions to the video have been understandably universally critical. Everyone who's seen that, whether right or left,

decarceration advocate or a law and order type activist or police officer, denounce what happened.

So is there any additional context that might help explain without at all justifying what

happened there, or was this really

just a case of five men committing what amounted to a murder against a helpless victim?

Yeah, I'm thinking that it's the latter, although I suppose, you know, as the investigation

continues, we may or may not learn some things that might shed light on why

this kind of crime may have been more likely to occur than it shouldn't have been. I mean,

you know, the New York Post over the weekend did a piece kind of noting that the Memphis

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