This week, Chenjerai is back on one of his favorite beats: policing in America đź‘®
He has a long conversation with Mac Muir, the author of Cop Cop: Breaking the Fixed System of American Policing. Muir recently served as the Executive Director of Oakland, California’s Community Police Review Agency and before then was a Supervising Investigator at NYC’s CCRB. He shares stories from inside his work as a police investigator and discusses the changes needed to hold bad cops accountable.Â
We also hear an excerpt from an interview with a nurse and negotiator on the front line of the ongoing massive Kaiser Permanente strike. You can listen to the full interview on Patreon.Â
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Further reading & sources from this episode
Patients over Profits: Kaiser Permanente’s Shift in Institutional Priorities and the Dire Consequences to Health Care
https://unacuhcp.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/ProfitsOverPatients_2026.pdf
Cop Cop: Breaking The Fixed System of American Policing by Mac Muir and Greg Finch
And for a VERY different take on what to do about policeread Copaganda: How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News By Alec Karakatsanis
https://bookshop.org/p/books/copaganda-how-police-and-the-media-manipulate-our-news-alec-karakatsanis/64c2d92e5fd56320?ean=9781620978535&next=t
Being Dope: AD Carson -Â
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/being-dope-9780197772669
The NYPD Strategic Response UnitÂ
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/nypd-settlement-agreement-police-violence/
The Mollen Commission Report -Â
https://digitalcommons.nyls.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2017&context=nyls_law_review
