Criminal justice

5 episodes

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  • 1

    Maybe you have an idea in your head about what it was like to work at Guantánamo, one of the most notorious prisons in the world. Think again.

    sjreif3 recommended:

    $13 million per year per prisoner 3 gift shops and marketing collaborations with disney It’s all theater, everyone plays a part where they pretend most of the time

  • 2

    They Keep People Safe | 1

    Empire City: The Untold Origin Story of the NYPD

    43:17 | Sep 9th, 2024

    1 recommendation

    Chenjerai takes us back to the summer of 1835, when Black New Yorkers are being kidnapped and sold into slavery in the south. But their friends and families can’t call the cops, because it turns out t...Show More

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    First cops were set up by the Dutch: green lanterns and whistles Tobias Budno (cop) - He was broke and needed to make money - Could accuse any Black person as being an escaped slave Cops in north c...Show More

  • 3

    In 2002, an elite interrogation team secretly staged Guantánamo’s most elaborate intel operation — to try to get a single detainee to talk.

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    - Honey sales and trade in Pakistan was a “common” al-queda cover story - Special projects thought they had a good plan (mock rendition) to make Salahi think he was being handed over to Jordan or Egyp...Show More

  • 4

    If It Bleeds It Leads | 2

    Empire City: The Untold Origin Story of the NYPD

    42:30 | Sep 9th, 2024

    1 recommendation

    Before the NYPD existed, New Yorkers strongly opposed the idea of an armed police force – until a powerful news publisher changed everything. After a grisly murder takes place, the city’s newspapers s...Show More

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    - they wanted the historian to write about history without the words like “corruption” - public history with an institutional agenda

  • 5

    What’s Done Can Be Undone | 3

    Empire City: The Untold Origin Story of the NYPD

    40:31 | Sep 16th, 2024

    1 recommendation

    New York’s power-hungry mayor weaponizes the police to help him control the city – and bulldoze a thriving Black community for his own real estate profits. The state, fearing that the mayor and his po...Show More

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    Mayor Fernando Wood is who consolidated power between mayor and police, including the start of the first ever police parade down Broadway. Seneca Village was a thriving Black neighborhood and the only...Show More

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