Cop Out, Snap #612 - Unforgiven
Ex-Cop Robert Davis had two choices: Show up to court and serve a sentence that meant certain death... or find a way out. Find out about Robert Davis’s work here. Producer: Anna SussmanSound Design:...
View Article[Update] Eyes on Cops
The scenes of violence caught on video recently have been a painful reminder of the strained relations between the public and the police in our country.This friction is not new. What is new is the...
View ArticleStrengthening Police Accountability
Joo-Hyun Kang, Director of Communities United for Police Reform, and Dick Dadey, Executive Director of the watchdog group Citizens Union, discuss their organizations’ proposals on police...
View ArticleChanging the NYPD from Within
Charles Campisi joins us to discuss his book Blue on Blue: An Insider’s Story of Good Cops Catching Bad Cops. For nearly 20 years, Campisi led the NYPD Internal Affairs Bureau, known among patrol...
View ArticleRunning from cops
In cities across America, black men are on the run. On April 4, 2015, in South Carolina, Walter Scott was killed while running away from a police officer. Eight days later, Freddie Gray ran from police...
View ArticleFormer Officer Seeks Accountability With Police Crime Database
Click on the 'Listen' button above to hear this segment. Over the past 13 years, Dr. Phil Stinson has been researching police misconduct. In September, he launched Police Integrity Lost, a public...
View ArticleA St. Louis Police Officer Builds Bridges With Her Community
Click on the 'Listen' button above to hear this segment.The Takeaway has launched a new series called "To Serve and Protect: Life Behind the Blue Line." We’re asking police officers from across the...
View ArticleA Police Officer Tries to Bridge the 'Trust Deficit'
Click on the 'Listen' button above to hear this segmentAs part of our ongoing series "To Serve and Protect: Life Behind the Blue Line,” The Takeaway has heard from police officers with nuanced views on...
View ArticleA Police Chief Strives for Transparency
Click on the 'Listen' button above to hear this segment. We've been talking to police officers around the country, to try to get a sense of how they perceive the state of policing in America today....
View ArticleWhere criminals get their guns (rebroadcast)
Across the country, criminals are arming themselves in unexpected ways. In Florida, they’re stealing guns from unlocked cars and gun stores. In other places, they’re getting them from the police...
View ArticleCop Out, Snap #612 - Unforgiven
Ex-Cop Robert Davis had two choices: Show up to court and serve a sentence that meant certain death... or find a way out. Find out about Robert Davis’s work here. Producer: Anna Sussman Sound Design:...
View ArticleUnforgiven
There is a line, draw it in the sand, shake on it, mark it in blood, but if you cross it... there is no going back.Season 6 Episode 12
View ArticleWhat cops aren’t learning (rebroadcast)
Some police departments are embracing a set of tactics designed to reduce the use of force – and prevent police shootings. Rather than rushing in aggressively, officers back off, wait out people in...
View ArticleWhat cops aren't learning (rebroadcast)
Some police departments are embracing a set of tactics designed to reduce the use of force – and prevent police shootings. Rather than rushing in aggressively, officers back off, wait out people in...
View ArticleCops on a Crime Spree
Baltimore’s police department was already notorious.But this year, eight former police officers were convicted on federal racketeering charges stemming from an FBI investigation. They belonged to an...
View ArticleServing Time 9-5: Diaries from Prison Guards
Sergeant Furman Camel spent 27 years in a North Carolina Prison. That's as many years as Nelson Mandela spent behind bars. But Camel did his time, as likes to say, in 8 hour shifts. "I wear this...
View ArticleCase Cleared (Part 1)
When police closed the rape case against Bryan Kind, they made it look like it had been solved. But he never was arrested – or even charged. We team up with Newsy and ProPublica to investigate how...
View ArticleCase Cleared (Part 2)
He seemed to confess to the crime, twice to his ex-girlfriend, once to police. But prosecutors never charged him. The reasons why show how rape myths continue to influence how justice is meted out in...
View ArticleWhat "Running From Cops" Learned From "Cops"
The first episode of the TV show "Cops" aired thirty years ago, and in the ensuing decades it's become influential enough to mold the attitudes of new aspiring police officers. But if the show holds up...
View ArticleThe Docket: How 30 Years of COPS Has Shaped America's View of Policing
In June 1989, a television show premiered that would change the way that networks think about TV — and how millions of Americans view policing and the criminal justice system.COPS.Cops, with its camera...
View ArticleWhat "Running From Cops" Learned From "Cops"
The first episode of the TV show "Cops" aired thirty years ago, and in the ensuing decades it's become influential enough to mold the attitudes of new aspiring police officers. But if the show holds up...
View ArticlePolice and Protesters Talk About Policing and Protesting
Police weigh in on policing protests. Protesters weigh in on protesting the police. And our expert guest weighs in with what the research says about when the two groups meet.On Today's Show:Jamiles...
View ArticleCall-In Special: WNYC At Curfew, with Brian Lehrer
The last time New York City was under a curfew was during World War II, so for most of us, this is new. WNYC wants to be there with you as we all reckon with the anti-racism uprisings happening around...
View ArticleCops (the Reality TV Show) Cancelled
Police on TV, from Law and Order detectives to the reality show Cops give an unrealistic sense of what it's like to be in law enforcement.And some of them are given easier access to city permits for...
View ArticleIs It Time to Rethink Cop TV Shows?
Alyssa Rosenberg, Opinion writer covering culture at The Washington Post, argues that Hollywood should immediately halt production on cop shows and movies, and rethink the stories it tells about...
View ArticleWe Need to Talk About the Cops on TV
In recent weeks activists across the country have been demanding a more nuanced conversation about policing in America. They've challenged the calls by the president and others on the right for "law...
View ArticleYour Lying Eyes
In recent weeks, the Trump administration has removed multiple people from key watchdog roles. On the week’s On the Media: how the president keeps weakening the tools meant to hold him accountable....
View ArticleWhat "Running From Cops" Learned From "Cops"
After 30 years on the air, the television series "Cops" was finally cancelled this month. In the podcast series "Running from Cops", host Dan Taberski and his team watched nearly 850 episodes of the...
View ArticleIs the NYPD Listening?
Jennifer Jones Austin, CEO and executive director of the Federal Protestant Welfare Agencies (FPWA), talks about her work with the NYPD's Reform and Reinvention Collaborative, how to participate and...
View ArticleNJ's AG on Rooting Out Systemic Racism
Gurbir Grewal, attorney general of New Jersey, talks about the work his office has been doing to fight systemic racism in the criminal justice system, and to support police reform efforts in New Jersey.
View ArticleShould LGBT Cops Be Allowed As A Group In Pride Parades?
LGBT+ police officers have been banned from marching in uniform in the NYC Pride Parade. The organizers say it's about making participants of color feel safe. Others say it's needlessly divisive.On...
View ArticleHochul’s Promised Plan For Homeless Outreach in the Subway Hasn’t Left the...
More than a week before 40-year old Michelle Go was pushed in front a moving train at Times Square on Saturday, Gov. Kathy Hochul and Mayor Eric Adams announced a plan to bolster safety in the subways:...
View ArticleHow the CCRB Handled 2020 Protest Cases
Christopher Werth, WNYC investigative editor, discusses the CCRB's handling of misconduct cases stemming from Black Lives Matter demonstrations back in May 2020. And, he shares new in-depth reporting...
View ArticleHow to Protect Whistleblowers Calling Out Police Misconduct
When retired NYPD detective and renowned whistleblower Frank Serpico came on our show in 2020, he talked about police institutions' "old draconian thug squad principles" that punished him and many...
View ArticleOne Rogue Cop Is A Bad Apple, Five Is A System
Amid the outrage over the killing of Tyre Nichols by police, we take stock of the discussion about whether the issue is individual cops, or the structure and culture of policing.On Today's Show:Janai...
View ArticleElie Honig On Prosecuting Trump And The Accused Memphis Cops
What's similar, and what's different, about the way the justice system treats the rich (like Trump), the powerful (like police officers), and average Americans?On Today's Show:Elie Honig, senior legal...
View ArticlePutting An End To Toxic Cop Culture
When it comes to police reform, a retired NYPD detective argues that policing as a profession must evolve or go away completely. The problem of police violence, and the excessive use of force in Black...
View ArticleThe Public Grief That Follows Police Violence
When police kill innocent Black people, victims' families are often thrust into a public mourning that's partially an tragic spectacle, and partially a motivator of change.On Today's Show:Charles Blow,...
View ArticleAdriano Espaillat; How is Chat GPT Changing Education?; Tiffany Cabán; Your 3...
Coming up on today's show:Adriano Espaillat, U.S. Representative (D, NY-13), responds to the State of the Union address and the news from the Capitol and his district.Stuart Selber, a professor in Penn...
View ArticleNew York City Progressives Divided Over How To Achieve Public Safety
A local legislator discusses the progressive approach to criminal justice, and how to enhance public safety without mass incarceration.On Today's Show:Tiffany Cabán, NYC Council Member serving parts of...
View ArticleNYC Retirees Protest Health Plan Changes; France's Pension Reform; Humane...
Coming up on today's show:New York City municipal retirees are speaking out against a plan that would force them to enroll in a Medicare Advantage plan run by Aetna. Marianne Pizzitola, president of...
View ArticleThe Suspect Detective
In 2010, Milique Wagner was arrested for a murder he says he had nothing to do with. The night of the shooting, Wagner was picked up for questioning and spent three days in the Philadelphia Police...
View ArticleJessica Valenti on Abortion Rights; NYPD's Robot Dogs; Slow Radical Change;...
Coming up on today's show:Jessica Valenti, writer and feminist, author of the substack newsletter Abortion, Every Day, author of multiple books on women and politics and co-editor of Believe Me: How...
View ArticlePolice Body Cameras: The Accountability Revolution That Wasn't
Eric Umansky, ProPublica editor-at-large, discusses a six-month investigation into the way police departments around the country "undermined the promise of transparency and accountability that...
View ArticleMayor Adams on Policing, Housing and More
New York City Mayor Eric Adams discusses his administration's work on housing, why they are calling social media a public health hazard and the disagreement with City Council over the "How Many Stops...
View ArticleReporters Ask the Mayor: Public Safety
Mayor Adams holds one off-topic press conference per week, where reporters can ask him questions on any subject. Katie Honan, senior reporter at The City and co-host of the podcast FAQ NYC, recaps what...
View ArticleThe National Guard in the Subway; Monday Morning Politics; Systemic Racism;...
Coming up on today's show:Richard Davis, president of TWU Local 100, shares his thoughts on Governor Hochul's move to send members of the National Guard to patrol the subways and inspect bags, and how...
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