Hosted by Gerry Shields
Gerry is a former longtime Washington correspondent and political writer for The New York Post, Baltimore Sun, and Philadelphia Inquirer and author of the new book: The Front Row: My Jagged Journey Recording American History from Reagan to Trump.
Episodes
Welcome to the Retail Politics Podcast. Without enough hand sanitizer for candidates to shake hands, let alone kiss voter babies, we redefine Retail Politics for the digital world, reaching you one download at a time. We’ll speak weekly for 30 minutes to politicians, academics, and reporters on the front lines of American political issues to help you choose best how your government should function.
S01E38 Gary McLinney, Politics of Violent Crime
Murders across the nation have reached their highest in a half-century, and many blame the demoralization of American policing in the wake of the George Floyd killing a year ago.
“They’re doing the job that elected officials and some communities want them to do,” Gary McLhinney, former president of the Baltimore Fraternal of Police, told the Retail Politics Podcast with Gerry Shields.
“They don’t want them engaging with criminals,” McLhinney said.
S01E27 Gary McLhinney, American Police in Polar Peril
The testimony of eight Minneapolis police officers against colleague Derek Chauvin will likely doom the officer accused of murdering George Floyd; a veteran police analyst told the Retail Politics Podcast with Gerry Shields.
“If I put myself in the seats of the jurors, I think it’s pretty damning,” said Gary McLhinney, former president of the Fraternal Order of Police union in Baltimore. “You judge police officers’ actions by what their peers would do in a similar situation. I think the testimony so far has been that the average police officer, in that situation, would not have done what that particular police officer did.”
Gary McLhinney, Politics of Policing
The former president of the Fraternal Order of Police in Baltimore -- one of America’s most violent cities -- called for more and better police training to reduce the number of deaths of unarmed African Americans.
Gary McLhinney, who also served as a Maryland police chief, told the Retail Politics Podcast with Gerry Shields broadcasting Sunday that academy racial sensitivity instruction is inadequate and needs to be enhanced.