How We Keep Our Communities Safe

'The question of public safety — what it is, how we can preserve it — is a question that our society has been grappling with for generations. Elizabeth Hinton is a professor of History, African-American Studies and Law at Yale University and author of From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America . In this segment, Hinton talks about how the institution of policing in the United States has shifted over time, how police became the default agency for responding to emergencies, and how we might imagine and fund a different approach to keeping communities safe.' -- On the Media