Defund The Police? The Data Scientist Behind Police Reform

For decades, the country has witnessed police shootings of Black
people and grappled with a question: Are police racist? Are police
departments racist? Dr. Phillip Atiba Goff and his team are finding
answers using cold, hard data, and using it to reform the idea of
what a police department is. Goff is a psychologist, a data
scientist and the co-founder and CEO of the Center for Policing
Equity. As a professor at Yale University, he’s also the rare
academic who loves his job — and sees it having a dramatic impact
on the world. On Art of Power, Goff tells host Aarti Shahani what
defunding the police means to him, about his pioneering work in the
field of implicit bias — including his regrets — and how he upended
an entire police department in a city in New York. Also, he shares
how an initially-offensive encounter with a Denver police officer
led to a dynamic partnership.