The World As I Like It To Be is an audio webseries (aka podcast) hosted by Eric Darnley Small where we talk about police and politics. In this season, I talk with police officer Darnley Small about becoming a police officer and police training. Darnley Small is a retired detective with the NYC Police Department who was a trainer in the advanced specialized unit.  Detective Small did community policing and police sensitivity training for the department. Next, I talk to Denise from California about politics in the US and the Golden State.  Denise is a local activist in the Los Angeles area who is trying to get justice democrats elected into office nationwide. As for the series - what I hope to accomplish is to cut through the bias, the lies and the distortions and answer the question are we seeing things as they are or as we would like them to be. Please check out our blog at theworld.blogs.v-tip.com and click on our sponsors on this page to support the show. “If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.”-- Sun Tzu, The Art of War

In episode two of Let's Talk Brooklyn, Host Dr Susan Birne Stone talks games with Megan Minturn. Megan is a dancer and choreographer who has a new dance performance based on the secret history of one the world's most popular games, Monopoly. In this episode we talk about a game created two decades earlier called The Landlord's Game. We talk about its visionary creator Elizabeth Magie,how her game was stolen and sold to Parker Brothers as the first version of Monopoly and how Megan turned this story into a performance. For more on this episode go to letstalkbrooklyn.blogs.v-tip.com and see the behind the scenes video of the making of the custom puppets used in the performance.