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 al...

Unruly Subjects

Rowhome Productions

Who Polices the Police? with Mac Muir

FEB 5, 202695 MIN
Unruly Subjects

Who Polices the Police? with Mac Muir

FEB 5, 202695 MIN

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This week, Chenjerai is back on one of his favorite beats: policing in America đź‘®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. We make Unruly Subjects 100% independently. Please support the show on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/UnrulySubjectsFollow Chenjerai on Instagram @chenjerai and Bluesky @chenjerai.bsky.social and follow Unruly Subjects @unrulysubjectspod Get in touch [email protected] Music by Blue Dot Sessions and Grizzly Beatz. And be sure to check out A.D. Carson’s music: https://aydeethegreat.bandcamp.com/Unruly Subjects is created in partnership with Rowhome ProductionsFurther reading & sources from this episodePatients over Profits: Kaiser Permanente’s Shift in Institutional Priorities and the Dire Consequences to Health Carehttps://unacuhcp.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/ProfitsOverPatients_2026.pdfCop Cop: Breaking The Fixed System of American Policing by Mac Muir and Greg Finchhttps://bookshop.org/p/books/cop-cop-breaking-the-fixed-system-of-american-policing-greg-finch/80787c7f569e3db3?ean=9781638930082&next=tAnd for a VERY different take on what to do about police read Copaganda: How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News By Alec Karakatsanishttps://bookshop.org/p/books/copaganda-how-police-and-the-media-manipulate-our-news-alec-karakatsanis/64c2d92e5fd56320?ean=9781620978535&next=tBeing Dope: AD Carson - https://global.oup.com/academic/product/being-dope-9780197772669The 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 Support the show