The Politics of Police Reform in Minneapolis / Michelle Phelps
If you talk to, to reformers they will tell you, "culture eats policy for breakfast." If you don't change the culture, no amount of policy reform and training or even accountability is going to fix it. For decades now, changing the culture of policing is part of the goal of reformers, and the question is, why do they keep failing at it?
Sociologist Michelle Phelps joins us to discuss her book, The Minneapolis Reckoning: Race, Violence, and the Politics of Policing in America.
Guest
Michelle Phelps
Michelle Phelps is a Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Minnesota. Her research is in the sociology of punishment, focusing in particular on the punitive turn in the U.S. through the lenses of policing, probation, and prisons.