It feels like hardly a day goes by that we aren't confronted with another terrible example of how policing in the United States is the worst. Eric and Jackson dig into some of the history of modern policing, talk a bit about police abolition and the Defund the Police Movement, and discuss some of their concerns about the lack of a widely shared alternative to policing and what we need to be thinking about - politically, morally, and policy-wise - to address those concerns.

We also talk a bit about the corruption and connections between policing and the U.S. militarism and why the Supreme Court sucks.

We didn't mention much reading in the episode itself, but highly recommend folks check out these and other writings:

• Angela Davis' "Are Prisons Obsolete?"
• Alex Vitale's "The End of Policing"

Class is *clap clap* in session!