"A congregation decided to stop calling the police, saying that is an act of justice on their part. Things go south, if the people you're calling the police on are African American. There's a tendency to be more afraid and to call the police in unwarranted situations, but also a tendency if those situations involve police that they become violent."
Jason DeRose is Western Bureau Chief and Senior Editor at NPR News. He edits stories from Colorado to Hawaii and oversees national coverage of religion, LGBTQ issues, and Native American issues. Before joining NPR, he was a senior editor and correspondent at WBEZ - Chicago Public Radio, where he covered religion and belief.
He holds a master’s degree from the University of Chicago Divinity School and a bachelor’s degree from St. Olaf College. Jason spent many wonderful hours working at his college’s public radio station. Outside of work, he is an overly-active member at St. Paul's Lutheran Church in Santa Monica, California, where he chairs the congregation's seminary internship committee. Jason loves reading sad novels but is really quite funny in person.
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