Policing Is Not Broken, It’s ‘Literally Designed to Work in This Way’

Derek Chauvin has been found guilty of the murder of George Floyd. But whatever bittersweet feelings the rare outcome elicited were short-lived, since instances of police brutality compound almost daily. There’s no debate: Policing is broken in America. But how do we fix it?

To answer that question, Jane brings together a round table to debate solutions ranging from modernizing training, stronger ties between police misconduct and financial culpability, and divesting from policing to invest in community-based services.

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Joining Jane is Randy Shrewsberry, a former police officer and the executive director of the Institute for Criminal Justice Training Reform; Rashawn Ray, a professor of sociology at the University of Maryland and a David M. Rubenstein fellow in governance studies at the Brookings Institution; and Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson, a leader in the Movement for Black Lives and an executive director of the Highlander Research and Education Center in Tennessee.

Mentioned in this episode:

• The George Floyd Justice in Policing bill of 2021 and the Breathe Act proposal

• From The New York Times Magazine: “Police Reform Is Necessary. But How Do We Do It?”

• “Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America” by Jill Leovy

Credit…Photograph by Steve Skinner, via Getty Image

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