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Raney Aronson-Rath

Jelani Cobb, a staff writer for The New Yorker, author of several books, and The Ira A. Lipman Professor of Journalism at Columbia University, spoke to Raney Aronson-Rath  in a Frontline Dispatch podcast titled "Race, Police & the Pandemic: A Conversation with Jelani Cobb".   In minute 12:46 he says, “Los Angeles, which in the 1980's and 1990's was notorious as a troubled police department, was actually one of the best examples of the consent decree program working.  Over the ensuing decade, they rose much higher in the rankings of how community people saw them. They actually started to implement things that were innovative kinds of policing, sending out social workers with police officers on calls for instances where law enforcement isn’t exactly what you need. If you have a person with a mental health crisis, then maybe that’s not the time where a law enforcement person is best equipped to handle it.”

Source: 
PBS Frontline Dispatch Podcast