Tracey Meares
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Yale Law School professor Tracey Meares joins us to discuss the past and future of police reform, including her government and academic work in this area. We touch on what the Obama administration did and didn’t do after Ferguson. We also discuss how calls for defunding the police and prison abolition play out in the policy sphere. Additional reading, including those referenced during the episode, are available on our website: DiggingAHolePodcast.com.
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