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How To Make The Public Safer? It's A Lot Harder Than Just Hiring More Police

The NPR Politics Podcast

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The Role of Policing in Our Society

The role that policing plays in a larger set of political and economic relationships in our society. Big city mayors continue to im brace this austerity politics of, you know, tax breaks for downtown real estate deals at the expense of the neighborhoods. So there's an organic connection here between really bad economic policies that are making inequality worse, and turning our social problems over to the police to manage.

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