A Black Executive Perspective now presents Need to Know with the award winning hyphenated Dr. Nsenga Burton. Dr. Burton. What do we need to know?

Good afternoon and welcome to Need to Know with Dr. Nsenga Burton. I am she Nsenga Burton. Today We're going to talk about some of the things that you may look forward to or not so forward to with this next And with this next administration, as it relates to policing and some of the criminal justice items that are at least listed in project 2025, which they're saying is a wish list of right wing and white nationalists. But if you're looking at some of the announcements have that have been made, it seems like they're following that wish list to get off in terms of what they want to do. And our, uh, Next president, our president elect has already said, uh, that he is willing to use his executive orders to get these, uh, policies into place if he cannot get Congress, uh, to pass them. But he's about to have a, uh, a Republican Senate and House, but we know. That doesn't always mean that you get your legislation pushed through. Um, and then, of course, he can also use his courts that he is, um, nominated or appointed people to as well. But I wanted to talk about this because I, I learned of a situation. Involving 2 teenagers who were on their way to a homecoming event, a ball address event, and they were stopped by the police. And I had the opportunity to hear some of the audio and how the police officer was talking to them and. Apparently, of course, everyone the night, and they were really afraid for their lives. So I just want to remind people that police officers are not necessarily your friend. They're not there to be your friend. They're supposed to be there to serve and protect, but we do have a long, long history of negative interactions between police officers and people of African descent, black people, brown people, or what have you. So I think you need to, what you need to know is that because. Uh, people will be emboldened by this new president and the policies that, uh, he wants to put in place. For example, he wants to stop criminal justice reform. So, what that means is when they were, you know, some areas, you know, carrying marijuana is a misdemeanor. Now he wants to be a felony again. Some areas, you know, they had reduced the sentencing guidelines. So, you know, you serve a shorter period of time for certain crimes. We can stay on marijuana. Um, but now they want to stop that and increase the amount of time that you serve. They also want to, um, make use of the RICO statutes, um, to, in order to imprison larger numbers of people, um, take them off the streets, so to speak, um, whether or not they I won't say whether or not they're innocent or guilty, they have to go through a trial, but the Rico statute. So we have an example of that here in Atlanta of the Rico statute being used, um, against the record label, but, um, they also, you know, he wants to politicize the DOJ, the Department of justice. I'm getting to my point in just a 2nd, I just want to give you a little bit of this information, the Department of justice. So, instead of the Department justice mission, which is to serve in the interest of the public, he wants to change it. So that is. Their mission to serve in the interest of the president. Okay. So that means all of the things that are done, you know, whether it's an investigation of civil rights crimes, you know, whether it's anything that you are used to having the Department of justice. Do I even investigate? You know, Congress people, or what have you for crimes he wants that to go away and he wants them to pledge basically pledge allegiance to him and say, forget the public interest. You need to be working and be in alignment with the president. It's a corporate model. Right? Where you're. Uh, whatever department you run should be aligned with the strategic plan, the strategic vision of the president's office. Right? So he wants to do that. And as opposed to having the Department of justice, which is supposed to represent the interest of the people and then just 1 more thing, even though violent crime has dropped significantly in major cities, most of the information that they, most of the wish list is coming from false information about, you know, Statistics on violent crime. So they're saying it's more violent crime is more violent crime. There's more violent crime. Well, in fact, it's less violent crime and violent crime has been reduced in many, many municipalities cities or what have you. And so, What you need to know is that information, this response, right? We need to have more death penalty. That's also part of this, right? We want to put more people to death, right? These are pro life people, but they want to put more people to death. Um, we want to, um, build more prisons for when we do these mass deportations so that we can put people in there until we can get rid of them. Right. So we already had them, uh, putting kids in cages, losing track of the kids, finding out some of the kids were sex traffic that already happened 2016, 2020. But apparently we want more of that. So, um, that's going to probably start happening now. So what I need you to know is in order for people to work for this particular president, they are going to have to pledge allegiance to him. All right. And so. All of those rights and protections that people have been working to put into place, particularly following George Floyd, particularly following, um, Ahmud Aubrey, you know, these very high profile cases. Brianna Taylor, um, will be either rescinded. Or repealed and so what you need to know is your interactions with anybody who's representative of, you know, the president anyway, shape or form, particularly since he's calling himself the law and order president. Right? It's probably going to be negative. It's very high possibility. That'll be negative. There's a very high possibility that your civil rights will be violated because there'll be nowhere for you to go to get them. Um, Um, to even, uh, notify yet alone, um, tried to remedy the situation through the courts. And even if you are able to get that done, the likelihood of you remediating the situation through the courts is slim to none. So my point is, you should be ready to be pulled over by the police. Um, you should be ready to have a good, good attitude. I don't care if they're calling you the n word, don't say nothing, especially if you're teenagers, don't say nothing. You should be ready to ask for your lawyer immediately. One of my friends, um, she, um, when her son turned 16 and started driving, she gave him a lawyer, um, introduced him to the lawyer, and he carried the lawyer's information with him, and he actually did need it once. Um, so you need to know that you need to have a lawyer. Um, You know, hopefully on speed dial, you know, old people like me call it speed dial. You don't have to be fumbling around for stuff where you just do this and they call the lawyer right away. Um, and you need to be ready for some really intense interactions because, you know, civil rights, um, are basically going away, um, and they will not be enforced. And, um, the, your remedies will be curved curved. So the likelihood of you being able to do anything for yourself is very slim once that happens. So I say all that to say, I'm sorry. If you didn't read project 2025, you might want to read it now because all these people who voted for him, particularly those who have. Long, long relationships with the incarceration and mass incarceration, and all of the great things that were happening in order to repeal some of that damaging those damaging policies, like, these extremely long prison terms for nonviolent crimes. The amount of which you could be imprisoned, you know, all of this positive legislation around marijuana and CBD and all of that is going away. So, uh, be clear, uh, that. You may not have the most positive interactions with police officers, or people from the, or people who are aligned with the president anyway, shape or form, because that's what he wants and in order for them to work for him and to continue to work for him. They have to say that that's what they want to, and they have to do. What he wants them to do in order to keep their jobs. So that's all I got. It's gonna be a long 4 years and then, you know, all the generational damage that will be done. So it's gonna be longer than that. But these next 4 years. Could be 8, I guess, you know, since he said he didn't play and leave the White House. So it's gonna be a long 4 years, but please know, which you need to know. Have a lawyer on speed dial, follow all the ru uh, rules of the road. So, you know, if you do have an older car that has tinted windows, if you live in a county now or a state, that doesn't allow them, get rid of the tinted windows. Not to blame the victim, I'm just saying, um, if you have a light out on your car, you know, this is Sandra Bland, right? If you have just one, a bulb missing, oh, no big deal. It's just one bulb. I'll get it done tomorrow. Get it done today. Get it done today. Um, but don't give them anything. Use your signal. Don't give them anything Um or any reason to stop you they're going to anyway, you know for For all intents and purposes, but you don't want to Be able to have them say well I stopped you because you had this or you had that You want to have everything in line registration in place all your taxes paid property taxes Don't have any outstanding traffic tickets, right? Because in some places, I'm sure they'll be saying, once you have a certain number, they're going to turn it into a felony, right? Because they got to keep the prison field. All right. So make sure that you are handling your business. So tune in. Next week to a black executive perspective podcast, and I will see you then. Thank you for tuning in to need to know with Dr. Nsenga Burton,

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