For our 9th episode, we speak with Josh Murphy MA, Police Researcher and Professor in the Criminology department at Kwantlen Polytechnic University. He joins us to discuss the realities of policing today, how to properly address mental health in the DTES, the push for police reform and the #DefundTheVPD movement, the difference between street checks and carding, the responsibility of media when covering issues of race and policing—and much, much more. 

This episode was recorded before the killing of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin, so the protests in that city are not discussed. However, we do speak about George Floyd and how the execution of Rodney King and the Robert Dziekański scandal in Canada significantly altered Murphy’s outlook on police narratives and led him to the work he does today.

Note: Our new intro is the song, Take Me In Your Arms, written and performed by the talented Vancouver-born pianist, Austin Nash Park.