And for standards for Police Training and greater diversity proposals made and in several cases adopted in the wake of numerous other Police Murders including those of eric garner and Michael Brown the Minneapolis Police department for example established a duty to intervene required by Police Officers after the 2014 killing of Michael Brown in ferguson this requirement did not say floyd joining me to discuss the role of the police and what we must do to end the power of police to inflict indiscriminate violence is philip mackerras a writer activist and ph d. Candidate in sociology and africanamerican studies at Yale University so lets begin with a history because its not new we go all the way back to the Johnson Administration and all of the mechanisms and this has been bipartisan that has been used to a step simply reform the police have actually boomerang and made the police more on the potent and more lethal can you take us through that history yeah i mean we can even go back a bit
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Way out of mass incarceration or this current you know policing apparatus that we have or the culture of surveillance that is actually under the broader culture tradition and control that is its actively harming certain people when its also not operating in this way of giving public its a way that the broader public can see that to instill the entire thing has to be an error in that there is no tweaking it but along that way there are certain steps that can take in north to begin dismantling and shifting resources our way in the end thats diverse framework which is fundamentally about the best and from systems of punishment in this specific context policing in reinvesting those lines into Community Resources and institutions because we know what makes this in this community is this research as we look around the country to say this means that most resource not least. Our National Conversation on race and crime is based on a fiction it is the fiction that the organs of internal security
The arrests there are claims as moves illegal as it was through to the local authorities. First across the line russia says it has a covert vaccine good to go but 1st its already coming from the west of the khalid made such a quick. Look at r. T. Dot com for more on those and other stories coming up next the dissident voices the missing plane stream media the focus on on contact with chris hedges coming up now. Welcome to our own country today we discussed Police Reform with philip mackerras a writer activist and ph d. Candidate in sociology and africanamerican studies at Yale University this entire system has to be and there is no way to reform and we cant tweak a reform here where mass incarceration or this current you know policing apparatus that we have or culture of surveillance that its actually under a broader cultural tradition and control that is actively harming certain people with its also not operating in this way of giving public with a broader public consumes and to insti
Really be calling for the end to capitalism rather than lets say redefining the notion of profit. Well you could be defined the notion of profit and you could have the government come in and the private sector say we make profit and you the government do important things like prepare for viruses that threaten bubbly tell but in american capitalism if you give this much power to the private sector they have always prevented the government from having the power and the resources to do these kinds of things and they do that for a simple reason that they are afraid of the government as a competitor that the government will come in and do things and lead to massive people do say well if the government is what prevents us from having a virus well then lets give more resources to the government to do these things so the private sector unlocks the power of the government to compensate for the limits of the private sector and i know its easy to criticize the trumpet ministration for its respons