Behind the Police

Hi Behind the Police Fans! Take a listen to the trailer of our newest show, Weird Little Guys.

About the show: Investigative journalist Molly Conger takes you beyond the headlines to examine some of the worst people on the planet, most of whom you’ve never heard of. These are the weird little guys trying to ruin life as we know it.

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Hi, Behind the Police fans! We're excited to introduce you to season two of It Could Happen Here - a new daily show hosted by Robert Evans. Collapse is all around us. Find out what's coming next, and what you can do to build a new world from the ashes of the old, every day on this show. 

About It Could Happen Here: A jaunty walk through the burning ruins of the old world, the one we all live in now, and a guide to avoiding the worst pitfalls along the road to a better world. It Could Happen Here season 1 ended with the possibility of a second civil war. It Could Happen Here 2 accepts collapse as a given, and tries to provide a roadmap to survival.

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When an angry crowd of MAGA supporters were seen storming the Capitol Building on January 6th, the whole world was suddenly forced to reckon with the power of the QAnon conspiracy theory. 

Quickly though, after Trump lost the election, the QAnon reporting was dropped from the news cycle. Many presumed that QAnon was finished. After all, Q himself has vanished, none of their predictions came true, and Trump is out. Surely they’d lose steam? Sadly, no. 

QAnon has gone underground and the adherents are becoming more hardcore than ever. Something very disturbing is brewing in the world of Q, so join us for season two of Q Clearance as we document the wild evolution of QAnon without its leader. 

Episode one lands June 8th. 

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Hey, Behind the Police fans! We know you enjoy history, so we think you'll love After the Revolution. Check out the trailer and see for yourself!

About After the Revolution: A fiction podcast, based on the new novel 'After the Revolution' by Robert Evans. After The Revolution is set fifty years in the future, in a Texas wracked by civil war. We follow three characters: a "fixer" named Manny who leads reporters through the warzone, a young extremist named Sasha determined to join a militia called the Heavenly Kingdom, and an old veteran named Roland with a body full of U.S. army cyber-ware and a bunch of missing memories.

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Join rapper and author Propaganda as he uses his hood-knowledge to break down the political scene on the podcast Hood Politics.

All the jokes. All the political tea. All the hoodness.

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In the wake of the January 6th insurrection in D.C., Robert Evans and co-host Propaganda take a look at fascist insurrections throughout history. They also unpack the evolution, successes, and failures of antifascists in Italy, Germany, and Spain.

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Background and breakdown on 100 days of Portland insurrection, going in to the background, history of the current protests breaking down the struggles, successes and infrastructure that has made the uprising in Portland possible. 

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For the last episode of Behind the Police, we discuss the history of police militarization in the United States, and where it's led us to today. 

FOOTNOTES:

1. I'm From Philly. 30 Years Later, I'm Still Trying To Make Sense Of The MOVE Bombing
2. The History of Policing in the United States
3. A New History Tears Down the Myth of the Texas Rangers
4. American Police Training and Political Violence: From the Philippines Conquest to the Killing Fields of Afghanistan and Iraq
5. THE MILITARIZATION OF THE PHILADELPHIA POLICE
6. Militarized policing doesn’t reduce crime and disproportionately hits black communities
7. Multi-Method Study Of Special Weapons and Tactics Teams 
8. The Growing Epidemic of Cops Shooting Family Dogs
9. U.S. spends twice as much on law and order as it does on cash welfare, data show
10. Militarization fails to enhance police safety or reduce crime but may harm police reputation
11. Police officers in the US were charged with more than 400 rapes over a 9-year period
12. 'Who will protect you from rape without police?'
13. More cops. Is it the answer to fighting crime?
14. How shows like ‘Cops’ and ‘Law & Order’ affect our views of the police
15. The Militarization of America's Police: A Brief History

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If you thought police were deadly up till this point, wait until you hear about what unionization did to the U.S. police (hint: it got a hell of a lot of the rest of us killed.)

FOOTNOTES:

1. The History of Policing in the United States
2. Study finds misconduct spreads among police officers like contagion
3. The End of Policing 
4. How Police Unions Became Such Powerful Opponents to Reform Efforts
5. The unjust power of police unions
6. How Police Unions Enable and Conceal Abuses of Power
7. Minneapolis Police Union President Allegedly Wore a “White Power Patch” and Made Racist Remarks
8. Police chiefs are often forced to put officers fired for misconduct back on the streets
9. How a 50-year-old study was misconstrued to create destructive broken-windows policing
10. In New York, major crime complaints fell when cops took a break from ‘proactive policing’

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Lynching was the sharpest blade in the arsenal of white supremacy for decades, until American police replaced it with the death penalty. In this episode, Prop and Robert trace the evolution of police torture, and how the legacy of 'the third degree' persists in law enforcement to this day. 

FOOTNOTES:

1. History of the KKK in Oklahoma
2. Tulsa, Oklahoma, Race Riot
3. Tulsa Timeline
4. The Color of the Third Degree: Racism, Police Torture, and Civil Rights in the American South, 1930–1955
5. ACCUSED TORTURER JON BURGE DIED LAST WEEK, BUT HIS LEGACY OF BRUTAL, RACIST POLICING LIVES ON IN CHICAGO
6. CHICAGO POLICE TORTURE: EXPLAINED

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