Episode 46
Beat police
Drill music comes from communities where violence can be a fact of life, but it's policed as a cause of violence. Do the police understand what they're dealing with?
The Slow Newscast · Alice Sandelson
September 3, 202023m 34s
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Show Notes
Drill music styles itself as a tough and uncompromising representation of life in poor communities in cities like Chicago and London. Police forces have clamped down on it in the belief that it provokes violence, but the evidence for a causal link is thin. Not for the first time, an innovative, anti-establishment Black voice is being quietened.
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