No More Police w/ Andrea Ritchie (06/01/23)
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The Role of Police in Society
The way that data is used to tell the story of the role of police in society, it is like a completely inaccurate measure of generalized risk for violence. People overestimate the likelihood of facing kind of random harm or stranger danger and then underestimate the likelihood of face preventable or structural harm. And often folks in needs go massively under met throughout any process of sort of dealing with the police. It's so frustrating, but it's actually so simple when you lay it out," she says.
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