How True Crime Reveals the Corruption and Failures of the Legal System

True Crime, if consumed critically asks the consumer to be critical of the criminal justice system, aware of the corruption, bias, and failures of the police state. In this video we are going to talk about the lessons that can be learned about our criminal justice system from true crime and why I think that you are a true crime fan your politics should tilt a little ... to the left, to the left.

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Table of Contents:

00:00 Intro
01:50 Preamble
08:47 Brilliant Ad
10:44 "Bad Apples"?
39:09 Junk Science and Brady Violations
56:17 Discipline & Punish Remix
1:05:51 What do we do now?

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Sources:

Books

Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison by Michel Foucault
We Own This City: A True Story of Crime, Cops, and Corruption by Justin Fenton
Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Y. Davis
The End of Policing by Alex S. Vitale
Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America by James Forman, Jr.

Articles:

All To Familiar: https://www.hrw.org/reports/1996/Us1.htm

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/11/20/facts-about-crime-in-the-u-s/
https://www.bbc.com/news/57581270
https://newrepublic.com/article/160532/what-black-people-think-police
https://www.statista.com/statistics/194213/crime-clearance-rate-by-type-in-the-us/
https://jacksonvillefreepress.com/black-americans-want-police-to-retain-local-presence/
https://tulsaworld.com/archive/cop-out-on-bruce-nypd-pulls-stadium-escort-after-41-shots/article_9d792e38-769f-5eb4-9762-8ac4accc098b.html
https://www.forbes.com/sites/andrewdepietro/2020/04/23/police-officer-salary-state/?sh=5619400b2010
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/2/2/16961146/baltimore-gun-trace-task-force-trial
https://www.abajournal.com/magazine/article/long_held_beliefs_about_arson_science_have_been_debunked_after_decades_of_m
https://www.themarysue.com/yang-mental-health-nyc-mayor-debate/
https://www.newsweek.com/who-was-amadou-diallo-why-story-his-death-still-relevant-1508815
https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2012/07/lapd-lazurus-murder-mystery-killer
http://data.baltimoresun.com/news/gun-trace-overview/

True Crime Pod Recommendations:

Let's Go to Court
Casefile
Crime Show
Last Podcast on the Left
Southern Fried True Crime

Image Credits

Getty Images:

O.J. Simpson Criminal Trial- Pre-Trial Hearing - January 12, 1995 (Photo by Lee Celano/WireImage)

Charles Manson (Photo by Albert Foster/Mirrorpix/Getty Images)

The Ramseys offer reward for any information on their daughter JonBenet Ramsey's murder (Photo By Helen H. Richardson/The Denver Post)

Branch Davidian Compound Burning (Photo by Greg Smith/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

ABC's "Good Morning America" - 2014. (Photo by Ida Mae Astute/Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty Images) AMANDA KNOX

WASHINGTON, DC - JULY 12: Brooklyn Borough President and New York City mayoral nominee Eric Adams (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

346136 01: 22-year-old Amadou Diallo is shown in this undated photo. Diallo, an African immigrant, was returning to his home when four members of New York City's elite police force 'street Crime Unit'' fired 41 bullets, killing Diallo. (Photo by Richard Harbus/Getty Images)

BALTIMORE, MD - AUGUST 24: State's Attorney for Baltimore, Maryland, Marilyn J. Mosby is interviewed by Shoshana Guy, Senior Producer NBC News (not pictured) while walking through the Sandtown-Winchester neighborhood, where Freddie Gray was arrested, on August 24, 2016 in Baltimore, Maryland. (Photo by Larry French/Getty Images for BET Networks)

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