(Recorded before Covid-19 hit NYC/NJ). In the face of on-going police brutality against African Americans and the disproportionate impact of the Covid-19 epidemic on people of color, the United States has reached a tipping point in relation to racism, policing and public health. But what does it look like to adopt a “public health” approach to safety, policing, and economic development? In February, 2020, Laura visited Newark, New Jersey, to look at one city where decades of police reform efforts failed to stop violence and crime. Now, at the invitation of Mayor Ras Baraka, Aqeela Sherrills, a former gang-truce broker in Los Angeles, heads up the Newark Community Street Team which leverages residents’ relationships to prevent violence before it starts. Flanders talks with Sherrills and other former gang members turned peace-keepers about how they address abuse and transform trauma for themselves and others, and to the city’s Public Safety Director about what it’s taken to build the team’s partnership with police. This episode offers a timely glimpse of what it looks like when more responsibility for public safety is put in public hands and opens up the conversation about “defunding the police” with a concrete example of what appears to be working in one city.

GUESTS
Aqeela Sherrills, NCST Director
Daamin Durden, NCST Director of Operations
Breaunna McCray, NCST Safe Passage Team
Malik Latimore, High Risk Intervention Team
Patrice Walker, NCST Member
Anthony Ambrose, Newark Public Safety Director
Dax-Devlon Ross, investigative reporter at Type Investigations
Vonda McPherson, Owner of Vonda’s Kitchen

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