Who polices the police?
Today, Explained
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🗓️ 20 August 2020
⏱️ 28 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Remember when you were so brand conscious you queued for hours to get the latest pair of trainers |
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| 0:52.3 | It's been just about three months since the world watched the video footage of George Floyd |
| 0:56.5 | dying at the hands of Minneapolis police. In the weeks that followed, police reform was |
| 1:01.8 | top of mind. We had protests, we had pledges, there was a chaz and then a chop. But what do |
| 1:07.8 | things look like now that there aren't as many protests or occupations? Now that people are |
| 1:12.5 | thinking about the election or reopening schools or even the NBA or NHL playoffs. On today's show, |
| 1:20.0 | we're going to take a look at the struggle to hold the biggest police department in the country |
| 1:24.2 | accountable. We're talking about the $6 billion and nearly 40,000 officers of the NYPD. |
| 1:32.2 | Eric Gumanski has been writing about the NYPD for pro-publica. More specifically, he's been writing |
| 1:37.6 | about how civilians can file complaints about officer misconduct. And there were a lot of those |
| 1:43.3 | complaints in the weeks of protests after George Floyd's killing. But we started much earlier than |
| 1:49.7 | that. Last Halloween, my wife Sarah and our then six-year-old daughter were walking home from a |
| 1:57.0 | friend's house. And all of a sudden, they saw basically a few teenagers running and then bizarrely |
| 2:07.5 | a unmarked police car going the wrong way up court street, which is a one-way street. So literally |
| 2:15.2 | zooming against traffic. And then all of a sudden, the car hit one of the teens. |
| 2:24.4 | This is right literally in front of Sarah. My wife and our daughter, |
| 2:29.5 | kid kind of rolled up onto the hood of the car, rolled right off and slammed onto the ground. |
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