Newsday's Barriers to Badges, and Assemblywoman Kimberly Jean-Pierre

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Bill McIntyre and Jon Gallo talk with Newsday's Jim Baumbach about their latest special investigation, revealing that the path to winning appointment to Long Island’s highly paid police forces has been more than three times tougher for Black would-be officers than for white applicants. Plus, Assemblywoman Kimberly Jean-Pierre talks about governing during COVID, including her own experience being COVID-positive, and combatting vaccine hesitancy.

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