You better understand what this world is like and if you have that desire, and i surely surely hope you do, you can do worse than start with william shakespeare. [applause]. You can watch this and other programs on my netbook to be. Org. Cspan, created by americas Cable Television companies and brought to you as a public by your cable or satellite provider. Next on book tvs afterwards program, Manhattan Institute seated near fell, Heather Macdonald discusses policing in america. She is. She is interviewed by delores jonesbrown, law and plea science professor at john jay college, about her book, the war on cops, how the attack on law and order makes everyone laissez. Good afternoon, how are you today. A great, thank you so much. Im happy to have this opportunity to talk to about your new book, the war on cops. How the new attack on war makes everyone laissez. We know each other, we been on previous panels together, one of the first things i like to ask you is you discussed in the book a
Good afternoon how are you . Good. I am glad to have an opportunity to talk to you with your new book how this makes everyone less safe we know each other and have been on previous panels together but i would like to ask there is a section about whether or not if the police are racist when is your definition . You talk a lot about it in the book so how should we take your definition . I think it is high style treatment to the person on the basis of his skin color. Host a person would be a vote racist. To make judgments about someone based on skin color alone and not even as part of another set of characteristics that we hear from the black lives Matter Movement that cops are racist and in minority neighborhoods and oppressing people in those communities and presumably because there is never any explanation as to why officers would be in those communities so i am simply adopting a phrase that is often bandied about by the black lives matter protesters i go to the protests to see this si
That change your way of thinking, theres one book that did that for me when i was in college and that was the feminine misty misty my Betty Freeman and literally a lightbulb went on when i read that book and i decided that maybe my life was not going to consist of getting married and having children and living that kind of life that i should be thinking about taking care of myself and expanding my own horizons. I can honestly say that is one book that totally changed my way of thinking about myself. Is there any reading that you do like nonfiction or historical that helps you do your job in the senate . Well, theres a lot of reading that i do just on issues such as, i read a lot about immigrationin our country because , Immigration Reform is something that we need to address and thats very purposeful for me as an immigrant area i read about whats going on in the middle east, i read a lot of those kinds of articles. I read about whats going on in the Supreme Court and so those are the k
These formal line along this wall to avoid chaos. One one more round of applause please. [applause]. [inaudible] [inaudible] cspan, created by americas Cable Television companies and brought to you as a Public Public service by your cable or satellite provider. Next on book tvs afterwards program, Manhattan Institute institute sr. Fellow, Heather Macdonald discusses policing in america. She is interviewed by delores jonesbrown, law and Police Science professor at John Jay College about her book, the war on cops, how the attack on law and order makes everyone less safe. A good afternoon, how are you today. Im great, thank you so much. Im happy to have this opportunity to talk to you about your new book, the war on cops. How the new a attack makes everyone less safe. We know each other, weve been on previous panels together, one of the first things i like to ask you, the discussion the book about whether or not the system and police in particular are racist, what is your definition of ra
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