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From jaywalking laws, to freight trains, to city infrastructure that divides majority minority neighborhoods, Arrested Mobility has touched on the many ways that policies, politics, planning decisions, police practices, and public narratives have limited Black movement. In this episode, we’re looking back across the first three seasons of the show, at the stories and voices that have stayed with us, and discussing the future of the Arrested Mobility movement.
In many communities of color, decades of disinvestment have resulted in a built environment where people are unable to move through public space in a safe and healthy way. This episode features Dr. Melicent Miller from the Virginia Department of Health and Virginia Walkability Action Institute, to discuss how the VWAI was able to help Lansdowne create a traffic calming project, guided by community-driven design.
For generations, the dominant public response to violence was punishment and enforcement. But another approach has continued to grow alongside that model: Community Violence Intervention. CVI suggests that the people best positioned to interrupt gun violence are often those with lived experience, deep relationships, and hard-earned credibility in the communities most affected.
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Why are Black Americans and other people of color disproportionately victims of overly aggressive police enforcement and brutality while walking, running, riding bicycles, taking public transit, or while driving? This podcast explores the ways in which people of color have had their mobility arrested.
