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Why Cops Are Untouchable with Joanna Schwartz

Factually! with Adam Conover

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How to Create a Systemic Reform

"I would absolutely find ways to create allegiances with officers to get at the systemic problems," he says. "It just it never fails to boggle my mind how far the distance is between what we are taught about how criminal justice system is supposed to work in this country, and how it literally does violate our constitutional rights every day." There's no current legal mechanism that can actually ameliorate or punish people who do things like shooting an unarmed man on a street because they didn't read his warrant; so why not let them go ahead and do it? It seems pretty straightforward. For example, there's moves in Philadelphia and other places around the country where city council members really want

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