A really amazing two part podcast about policing in the United States. Through the different parts of this podcast, we hear from police departments and officers around the country and how they’re dealing with the challenges they face. What’s fascinating about this is the role of perspective and how different experiences affect how people see different situations. Part 2 Act 2 discusses the implicit association test and what a police department is doing about how to deal with implicit bias while policing. Part 2 Prologue is an interesting and short bit about a reporter watching the Eric Garner video with a friend who is a police officer and how the two of them see completely different things and interpret the video in very different ways.
Below are links for the full episodes.
Part I
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/547/cops-see-it-differently-part-one
Part II
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/548/cops-see-it-differently-part-two
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