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From Oakland to Johannesburg: Can We Reform the Police?

From Mateo Schimpf | 59:00

The United States is three months into a mass movement against police violence. We are the midst of a national conversation about the relationship between law enforcement and communities of color, but the fight over defining the problem of systemic racism, and how to fix it, is only intensifying.

Logo-transparent_small The United States is three months into a mass movement against police violence. We are the midst of a national conversation about the relationship between law enforcement and communities of color, but the fight over defining the problem of systemic racism, and how to fix it, is only intensifying. In the first half of this episode, Teresa Cotsirilos brings us the story of Jinho “The Piper” Ferreira, a hip-hop artist who lost a friend to police violence and still chose to join law enforcement. Next, we look at how South Africa has grappled with its legacy of white supremacy and police brutality. With the end of Apartheid in 1994, the police were supposed to be reformed, but a quarter-century later, South Africa is still struggling with this issue. Ray Suarez talks with Stan Henkeman, Executive Director of the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation in South Africa, and John Steinberg, Professor of African Studies at Oxford University, about policing in South Africa today.

The Return of the Strongmen

From Mateo Schimpf | 59:00

One year after supporters of former President Donald Trump violently stormed the Capitol, how do we make sense of the January 6 insurrection?

Wa_podcast_logo_prx_transparent_small The January 6 insurrection was no surprise to historian Ruth Ben-Ghiat. She has studied a century-long phenomenon of “Strongmen,” from Mussolini, to Putin. She and WorldAffairs co-host Ray Suarez discuss modern authoritarians and the “leader cult” created around former president Donald Trump. If weaknesses in our democratic institutions aren’t addressed, Ben-Ghiat warns, the real danger lies in the blueprint left for future leaders. If American democracy will survive, she says we need to learn from the past, not only our own, but that of other countries.