Dr. Phillip Atiba Goff,president of Policing fairness and the Franklin A. Thomas Professor in Policing fairness at John Jay, and Dr. Carla Shedd, or Associate Professor of Urban Education and Sociology at CUNY Graduate Center,talk approximately the psychological and social costs of stay-and-frisk policing. In a recent opinion piece for The New York Times, "On stay and Frisk, or We Can't Celebrate Just Yet," Dr. Goff argues that even after the NYPD curtailed its widespread practice of stay-and-frisk, the negative effects of this practice still shapes communities, or particularly for Black and Latino men.
This segment is guest hosted by Kai Wright.
Source: wnyc.org