Who Polices the Police? with Mac Muir

This week, Chenjerai is back on one of his favorite beats: policing in America 👮

He has a long conversation with Mac Muir, the author of Cop Cop: Breaking the Fixed System of American Policing. Muir recently served as the Executive Director of Oakland, California’s Community Police Review Agency and before then was a Supervising Investigator at NYC’s CCRB. He shares stories from inside his work as a police investigator and discusses the changes needed to hold bad cops accountable. 

We also hear an excerpt from an interview with a nurse and negotiator on the front line of the ongoing massive Kaiser Permanente strike. You can listen to the full interview on Patreon. 

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Further reading & sources from this episode

Patients over Profits: Kaiser Permanente’s Shift in Institutional Priorities and the Dire Consequences to Health Care
https://unacuhcp.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/ProfitsOverPatients_2026.pdf

Cop Cop: Breaking The Fixed System of American Policing by Mac Muir and Greg Finch

https://bookshop.org/p/books/cop-cop-breaking-the-fixed-system-of-american-policing-greg-finch/80787c7f569e3db3?ean=9781638930082&next=t

And for a VERY different take on what to do about police read Copaganda: How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News By Alec Karakatsanis
https://bookshop.org/p/books/copaganda-how-police-and-the-media-manipulate-our-news-alec-karakatsanis/64c2d92e5fd56320?ean=9781620978535&next=t

Being Dope: AD Carson - 

https://global.oup.com/academic/product/being-dope-9780197772669

The NYPD Strategic Response Unit 

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/nypd-settlement-agreement-police-violence/

The Mollen Commission Report - 

https://digitalcommons.nyls.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2017&context=nyls_law_review

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