Ep. 27: How the Media Mainstreamed Racist Pseudoscience
Added 2018-02-14 17:32:43 +0000 UTCIf one were to approach New York Times-reading liberals circa 1990 and tell them about a crime-fighting policy that arbitrarily harassed black and Latino youths who had committed no crime and threw the book at low-level nonviolent offenses, they would be rightfully outraged at the idea. But, if one were to couch this exact policy in pseudoscience promoted by mercenary sociologists and glowingly written up in The Atlantic, these same liberals would not only accept it, they'd be its primary advocates.
This is that story. This is the story of how the racist pseudoscience of Broken Windows and Stop-and-Frisk that started on the rightwing fringes slowly seeped into the centrist and liberal media and how two new racist pseudosciences, predictive policing and high profile "gang raids", are – again, with the help of liberals - taking their place.
We are joined this week by Josmar Trujillo.
Guest
Josmar Trujillo is a writer and organizer based in New York City. He has organized around education, disaster recovery and policing. He currently organizes with the Coalition to End Broken Windows and New Yorkers Against Bratton. He has written for the Village Voice, New York Daily News, Newsday and In Justice Today.
Show Notes
Stop and Frisk Apologies Prove that the Mic Must be Passed to People Most Affected by the Police
Josmar Trujillo | January 15, 2018 | In Justice Today
Crime Is Down, So Why Do Most Americans Believe the Opposite?
Liz Posner | February 11, 2018 | Alternet
Loose Cigarettes Today, Civil Unrest Tomorrow
Justin Peters | December 5, 2014 | Slate
A Brief History of Training Cops to Be Less Racist
Molly Osberg | May 19, 2017 | Splinter News
The Problem with “Broken Windows” Policing
Sarah Childress | June 28, 2016 | PBS Frontline
Broken Windows Policing Is Racist, and Doesn't Work, Unless...
Kali Holloway | June 26, 2016 | Alternet
Less Crimefighting, Less Crime? WSJ Avoids the Evidence
Jim Naureckas | May 15, 2015 | Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting
‘Broken windows,’ broken policy
Derrick Z. Jackson | December 29, 2014 | Boston Globe
Is Zero-Tolerance Policing Worth Chokehold Deaths?
Robert Wilbur and Martha Rosenberg | December 26, 2014 | Counterpunch
More proof NYPD’s beloved “Broken Windows” policy is a racist mess
Elias Isquith | October 29, 2014 | Salon
Why Broken Windows Policing Is So Broken
Peter Moskowitz | August 18, 2014 | Gawker
Sarah Ryley, Laura Bult & Dareh Gregorian | August 4, 2014 | New York Daily News
NY Post’s Stop-and-Frisk Scare
Peter Hart | November 19, 2013 | Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting
Stopping Short on Stop and Frisk
Janine Jackson | March 2012 | Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting
Reports
Stop, Question and Frisk Policing Policing Practices in New York City: A Primer (John Jay College of Criminal Justice, July 2013)
Stop and Frisk: The Human Impact (Center for Constitutional Rights, July 2012)
For more, visit (and support) Communities United for Police Reform.
References
George L. Kelling and James Q. Wilson | March 1982 | The Atlantic
We Were Wrong about Stop-and-Frisk
Kyle Smith | January 1, 2018 | National Review
‘Broken Windows’ Policing Does Work
Heather Mac Donald | June 8, 2015 | National Review
We were wrong: Ending stop and frisk did not end stopping crime
Editorial Board | August 8, 2016 | New York Daily News
Broken windows works and don’t undo it
Editorial Board | March 6, 2017 | New York Daily News
How to End Stop-and-Frisk Abuses
Editorial Board | May 23, 2012 | The New York Times
Safer Era Tests Wisdom of ‘Broken Windows’ Focus on Minor Crime
Joseph Goldstein | July 24, 2014 | The New York Times
Romanticizing ‘Broken Windows’ Policing
Charles Blow | July 4, 2015 | The New York Times
Policing the Police on Stop-and-Frisk
Editorial Board | June 23, 2016 | The New York Times
Even the creator of 'broken windows' policing thought it could lead to racial problems
January 27, 2015 | The Takeaway
Comments
...thanks a million for this. Posted up the Soundcloud release of this to an FB group a buddy of mine has that's essentially made up of college and high school writing teachers. He teaches at a college in South Florida, and teaches a lot of black and Spanish-speaking students who would like to learn how to keep it fucking real under the current regime; it's helping me to, probably could help them...
Frederick Von Drasek
2018-02-20 13:14:25 +0000 UTC
