Dig Deeper: Should the police be abolished?

By Ashwin Nair

In this first episode of Dig Deeper, host Ashwin Nair talks to Alex S. Vitale, Professor of Sociology at Brooklyn College and author of the book “The End of Policing” on the impact of police brutality on marginalized communities in North America, why police reform simply doesn’t work, and the need for abolishing policing as it exists today.

Ashwin Nair

Ashwin Nair is a third-year student currently majoring in Materials Engineering and minoring in Political Science. As an Indian-Canadian who grew up in Hong Kong, his areas of interest include Canadian & Quebec politics, Indian subcontinental affairs, and Hong Kong-China relations, as well as antiracism, feminism, taxation & wealth redistribution policy, and environmentalism.