Across the country, police services have been granted unprecedented new powers to enforce public-health measures to slow the spread of COVID-19, like social distancing and mandatory quarantines. Today, we’re talking to Alexander McLelland, a fellow at the University of Ottawa who researches public health and criminalization, about whether this type of police enforcement is effective, and what the criminalization of HIV/AIDS teaches us about today’s coronavirus pandemic.

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