Hans Menos, Ph.D., Vice President of Public Safety Innovations at CPE, joined Solomon Jones, host of Wake Up with Wurd, a news and entertainment talk show, to discuss the racial implications of President Trump’s exemption of National Guard troops to San Francisco and the lack of data to support their deployment to other cities, like Memphis or Los Angeles. An excerpt from the episode:
“Imagine what a city like Chicago or D.C. could do with the millions of dollars, sometimes two million dollars, per day that it cost to send in these federal agents. We’re talking about almost 80 million dollars that they spend on food for cities like L.A. just to feed the troops. So, it really isn’t about helping or solving problems … If the federal government really wanted to help … they could use the [hundreds of millions of dollars] that they’re spending just to oppress and offer punitive responses to problems that don’t exist to more smarm responses and more humane responses … like alternative responses.”
Listen to the episode on Soundcloud’s website.