0:08 – “It’s not a broken system. It’s a system that’s working exactly as it was built to work, as a way to control, harm, repress and kill people. and because it’s not broken, policing can’t be reformed to be made less violent. Minor tweaks to the way police look or operate are not going to address the violence of policing.” So says Nick DeRenzi, member of prison abolition group Critical Resistance and the No New SF Jail coalition, who envisions what it looks like not just to reform, but to abolish police departments.
0:34 – The statewide shelter in place mandate has derailed the education of students of color. We talk to Babalwa Kwanele, a mental health clinician, parent advocate and mother of three school-age children, and take your calls.
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