Despite years of procedural reforms, police in America continue to kill more than 1,000 people annually, and the political momentum from 2020 has faced massive pushback from both the right and the center. Alex Vitale, professor of sociology at Brooklyn College and author of The End of Policing, joins the show to explain why post-Ferguson reforms like body cameras and implicit bias training fail to reduce harm—and why true public safety requires shrinking the footprint of policing altogether.
Right Now with Perry Bacon: a twice-weekly show diving into U.S. politics, democracy, and the authoritarian threats facing America. Each episode, Perry strives to go beyond daily headlines and actually connect the dots to what’s happening in America.
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