Policing and Ethics with Ekow Yankah

Authors

Christiane Wisehart, DePauw University
Ekow Yankah

Document Type

Multimedia

Publication Date

10-6-2021

Abstract

Overview & Shownotes

Police have had a fraught relationship with communities of color since the earliest days of law enforcement in the eighteenth century. Our guest today, professor of law Ekow Yankah, argues that police power has often been deployed in a misguided attempt to solve deep economic and social problems. And this typically comes at the cost of harming people from marginalized communities. Instead, he argues, we need to imagine healthy communities where police play a background role.

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Links to people and ideas mentioned in the show

1. Ekow Yankah
   • “Whose Burden to Bear? Privilege, Lawbreaking and Race“
   • “Pretext and Justification: Republicanism, Policing and Race“
2. Amy Cooper and Christian Cooper story
3. Fourth Amendment

Credits

Thanks to Evelyn Brosius for our logo. Music featured in the show:

Gullwing Sailor by Blue Dot Sessions

Recommended Citation

Wisehart, Christiane and Yankah, Ekow, "Policing and Ethics with Ekow Yankah" (2021). Examining Ethics Podcast. 91, Scholarly and Creative Work from DePauw University.
https://scholarship.depauw.edu/examining-ethics/91