Radio Lab - The Heart of Progress

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Radio lab is supported by kindrill. Kindrill designs, builds, manages and modernizes the mission critical technology systems that the world depends on every day. Working side by side with their customers, they imagine things differently. They unlock new possibilities, creating a world powered by healthy digital systems alive with opportunity, oxygen to innovation and energy to change the world. We just heard two different stories from two different people where the police failed to protect either of them. And we learnd that, according to the constitution, the police don't have to. The classic example is, like, if you're walking down the street and you see somebody in need of rescue, and you could easily and safely rescue

Since the massacre that took the lives of 19 schoolchildren in Uvalde, Texas, people across the world began to ask versions of one question: why did police wait outside the door instead of protecting the kids?

It's not the first time this question has come up. Two years ago, as she watched police respond to the protests that followed the death of George Floyd, Producer B.A. Parker wondered: what are police for? With the help of our Producer Sarah Qari, she found that the United States’ Supreme Court had given this a most consequential and bewildering answer.

We decided to re-air this episode to shed light on how a case from 2005 upended our assumptions about the role police are meant to play in our lives.

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