What are police for? What makes people accept police authority as legitimate authority? How can we reset police-community relations to achieve broad public security? Professor Tracey Meares of Yale Law School, formerly of President Obama's Task Force on 21st Century Policing, addresses these challenges and reaches some insightful and surprising answers on this episode of Ethics Forward. It is the 2nd in a series on philosophical perspective on policing from the American Philosophical Association's committees on Public Philosophy and on Philosophy & Law. (Previous episode is here: https://soundcloud.com/wfmp-forward-radio/philosophical-perspectives-on-policing-sherri-irvin?in=wfmp-forward-radio/sets/ethics-forward.)
Musical selections courtesy of sonaBLAST! records are "Funny Ways" by Quiet Hollers (http://www.sonablast.com/artists/#/quiet-hollers/) and "Prayer" by Jenna Dean ft. Carly Johnson (http://www.sonablast.com/artists/#/jenna-dean/). Additional music is "Cloud Nine" by Prismic (https://soundcloud.com/prismicofficial/prismic-cloud-nine).