Rethinking American Policing

Rethinking American Policing

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We talk with ​journalist ​Jamiles Lartey about systemic racism in American policing​. ​He writes about criminal justice, race and policing for the non-profit news organization ‘The Marshall Project.’ ​“Policing wasn’t always this way. It wasn’t always this big. It wasn’t always this bureaucratic,” he says. “Sometimes as a society, you need to rethink institutions.“