Episode Summary
This is an intimate conversation from the perspective of Todd Davis, a Black Man in the United States of America who shares the racial profiling he has experienced from police and Dave Smith, a White Man who served as a Captain in the LA Police Division and who fought for accountability and reform within the department. I am extremely grateful to both of these men for their honesty, transparency and vulnerability at a critical time in systemic change for racial justice.
Show Notes:
- Consent
- A normalized conversation on police interaction for BIPOC
- Practicing servant leadership in the LAPD
- Dave’s involvement with the Rodney King investigation
- Living with the boogie man
- A mental prison – work, relationships, nighttime
- The Warren Christopher Report
- Police misconduct and lack of accountability
- “Everything we see today, we’ve seen before”
- Use of tactics in the police system
- Us against them mentality
- Unprovoked police interactions – stop and frisk era
- Loss of self in racial profiling
- The power of partnership with community leaders
- Loyalty to your crew
- What is leadership?
- A growing distrust for the police
- Defunding and re-allocating funds for social systems
- Transparency in complicity
- Same cops, same stories
- Toxic police culture
- If internal affairs works, it’s too late
- “We need this moment”
- “I started profiling myself”
- Trauma re-triggered today
- Community over currency
- “This is life and death”
- “We need to bear witness to what is right”
Links Mentioned:
- Todd Davis
- https://www.facebook.com/ToddSocial
- Warren Christopher Report
- https://www.hrw.org/legacy/reports98/police/uspo73.htm
- Up First, Bonus: American Police
- https://www.npr.org/2020/06/06/871447408/bonus-american-police
- Trevor Noah – Goods Cops and Bad cops
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpXXUC623ow&feature=youtu.be
- Confessions of a Former Bastard Cop
- https://medium.com/@OfcrACab/confessions-of-a-former-bastard-cop-bb14d17bc759
- National Police Accountability Project
- https://www.nlg-npap.org
- Campaign Zero
- https://www.joincampaignzero.org
- Color of Change
- https://colorofchange.org
- Justice for George Floyd
- https://www.change.org/p/mayor-jacob-frey-justice-for-george-floyd
- Fight for Breonna
- https://www.change.org/p/andy-beshear-justice-for-breonna-taylor
- Thoughtful Conversations About Whiteness with Good Friends and Cats
- https://therawandwildhearts.com/2020/02/09/thoughtful-conversations-about-whiteness-with-good-friends-and-cats/
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