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Incremental police reforms are not enough.
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Alex Vitale is Professor of Sociology and coordinator of the Policing and Social Justice Project at Brooklyn College. Vitale’s book The End of Policing, is an accessible study of police history as an imperial tool for social control that continues to exacerbate class and racial tensions. Vitale also goes deep into the shortcomings of reform and in contrast, deepens the conversations around meaningful alternatives to ultimately ask the people to consider the end of policing.
Special thanks to producers: Della Duncan, Robert Raymond; Upstream podcast.
Featuring:
• Alex Vitale, professor of sociology, coordinator of the Policing and Social Justice Project at Brooklyn College, and author of The End of Policing
Credits:
• Host: R.J. Lozada
• Producers: Anita Johnson, Marie Choi, Monica Lopez, R.J. Lozada, Della Duncan, Robert Raymond
• Executive Director: Lisa Rudman
• Audience Engagement Director/Web Editor: Sabine Blaizin
• Development Associate: Vera Tykulsker
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