The police have a duty to protect our right to protest while maintaining public safety. Too often they get the balance wrong. Edward Maguire is a professor of criminology and criminal justice at Arizona State University and the author of a guidebook on policing protests safely. He talks to Cait about crowd psychology, the history of protest policing, and his advice for police who take on these challenging events. Support the show For background reading and a list of...
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The police have a duty to protect our right to protest while maintaining public safety. Too often they get the balance wrong. Edward Maguire is a professor of criminology and criminal justice at Arizona State University and the author of a guidebook on policing protests safely. He talks to Cait about crowd psychology, the history of protest policing, and his advice for police who take on these challenging events. Support the show For background reading and a list of...
What can be done about South Africa's drinking problem?
Wood for the Trees
43 minutes
4 years ago
What can be done about South Africa's drinking problem?
This episode comes from a discontinued podcast called Debatable.When the South African government banned all sale of alcohol during lockdown, there were reports of blissfully empty emergency wards. Only 31% of South Africans over the age of 15 drink alcohol but the amount of alcohol consumed per drinker per day is over double the global average. Cait interviews Professor Charles Parry (Director of the Alcohol, Tobacco & Other Drug Research Unit of the South African Medical Res...
Wood for the Trees
The police have a duty to protect our right to protest while maintaining public safety. Too often they get the balance wrong. Edward Maguire is a professor of criminology and criminal justice at Arizona State University and the author of a guidebook on policing protests safely. He talks to Cait about crowd psychology, the history of protest policing, and his advice for police who take on these challenging events. Support the show For background reading and a list of...
