Black Lives Matter (The End of Policing by Alex Vitale) ft. Rique, an amazing human

The End of Policing explores the racist history of the police, the major problems of modern police, and the grave consequences of having a too-powerful, racially motivated police force in America.

In this episode:

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• VOTE

• George Floyd

• DeVon Bailey

• Contact your representatives

• Donations for BLM organizations

Show notes:

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• 13th on Netflix

• The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander

• White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism by Robin DiAngelo

• Prince of the City: The True Story of a Cop Who Knew Too Much by Robery Daley

• Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

• The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade by Alfred W. McCoy

• Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color by Andrew Ritchie

• Becoming Ms. Burton: From Prison to Recovery to Leading the Fight for Incarcerated Women by Susan Burton

• Cult of Glory: The Bold and Brutal History of the Texas Rangers by Doug J. Swanson

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The episode

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01:00: BLM protesters add “Defund the Police” to DC mural

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01:45: Defund the police

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05:00: Michael Che on Black Lives Matter

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06:30: Do not focus on the rioters or looters

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09:18: White people can just listen to black people

12:05: Protesters met with City Council in Colorado Springs

15:30: Police kill unarmed black men

15:40: US police are trained to think every situation could turn deadly,  but police in Britain are unarmed

17:35: Police shot a journalist in the eye and blinded her during BLM protests

18:10: Statistics show that more police do not prevent crime

19:10: Police have to deal with mental health patients but aren’t trained properly

21:45: Prisoners treated like violent criminals

23:15: New wave of slavery is mass incarceration

24:30: 1 in 3 black men will be arrested in their lives

25:30: US justice system is not restorative

25:40: The War on Drugs and Nixon’s advisor:

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We knew we couldn't make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin. And then criminalizing both, heavily, we could disrupt those communities.

26:46: Black people in America: slavery, slavery again during Reconstruction, then the Jim Crow era, then Civil Rights movement, then new Jim Crow

28:15: Longer prison sentences 

29:00: Mandatory minimum sentences, “3 strikes you’re out” laws, and Clinton crime bill

29:55: Police sue the government for quota systems

32:00: US history taught in schools is flawed

37:20: Trump supporters are racist

40:50: Trump rally on Juneteeth

42:04: States that prevent Juneteenth from being national holiday

42:20: Trump’s photo op in front of the church, disavowed by church leadership

43:40: Georgia voting systems

44:35: Trump fact-checked on Twitter over voter fraud lies

45:45: Police are relatively new invention; not around for the ratification of the US Constitution

46:15: Police were racist towards italian/irish and other immigrants

46:40: Texas Rangers created to exterminate Native Americans and Mexicans

48:00: Birth of a Nation super racist

48:50: Rape and race

49:30: First police in the South were poor whites rounding up slaves

50:40: We only know about police brutality because of cell phone cameras

51:25: Civil rights concerns of body cameras

51:15: Groups under government surveillance

55:20: Police in riot gear encourages violence

57:15: Gezi Park protests in Istanbul, Tiananmen Square, Hong Kong protesters

59:00: Cops trained in how to interact with media

1:00:10: Diverse political representation good for policy, but diverse police forces are not less racist
 

1:01:00: Black people are 13% of the population

1:02:00: Plea agreements; 97% of cases don’t see a trial

1:02:55: Punishment in the US

1:04:00: White people do just as much drugs as blacks

1:05:25: Black females are most targeted for prostitution

1:06:30: Criminalizing prostitution; police corruption

1:07:25: Lecrae on the War on Drugs

1:08:48: School-to-prison pipeline

1:10:15: Teachers need to be taught to be guidance counselors

1:15:55: Racist history of the police

1:16:15: Black people less likely to be approved for loans

1:18:20: The US should give black people reparations

1:18:30: White people are part of the problem if they are not part of the solution; silent racism

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