Black and Blue: Behind the Badge

By Blanchard House/CuriouscastSociety & Culture Documentary True Crime History

Black and Blue: Behind the Badge episodes

June 17 Introducing "Hostile History"
Since the dawn of time, humanity has been at war. Conflict in one form or another has been part of our existence since we first walked the earth.
In this first episode of a four-part series, join military historian David Borys as we travel back in time to Iran, where we chart how a modern monarchy, which was armed, wealthy, and globally backed, lost control. On our journey, we'll be helped by historian Roham Alvandi from the London School of Economics and Political Science.
While conflict and armed rebellion have evolved to look very differently over the centuries, if you want to understand the world today, you need to go back because history doesn't just repeat itself; it echoes.

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43 min
March 05, 2025 Listen Next: Global National with Dawna Friesen | Trudeau says Trump's tariffs are 'very dumb' as trade war begins
The frustration of both Canadians and Americans as U.S. President Donald Trump officially launches his trade war; and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's tough words for Trump. The fears among auto, steel, and aluminum companies. How Canadians are uniting as they fight the tariffs. Plus, how Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is trying to salvage his relationship with Trump after that infamous Oval Office shouting match.
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24 min
February 11, 2025 Listen Next: A Most Audacious Heist - Shoot For The Moon | 01
It’s a summer night in 1998. Vienna, Austria. And petty thief Daniel Blanchard is about to carry out the heist of a lifetime. Stealing a crown jewel. The last remaining diamond Sisi Star.
His plan? A daring night-time parachute jump.
Daniel is no ordinary thief. His heists are ingenious, meticulously planned; his escapes from the law defy belief. And Daniel knows that if he can get his hands on the star, it will launch him into the criminal big-leagues.
Daniel’s exploits unleash a relentless game of cat-and-mouse, as police track him across continents yet vanishes from their grasp.
What he doesn’t know is that the Sisi Star has a history. A dark history. Its original owner, the legendary Empress Elisabeth of Austria, used it to carve her own legacy of absolute beauty and power. That pursuit drove her to her very limits.
And now Daniel’s fate is fixed to that same star. But how long can Sisi’s star stay lucky for Daniel?
This is A Most Audacious Heist – it’s the story of a master thief, an intercontinental manhunt, and the jewel that changes everything.
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42 min
March 27, 2024 Introducing... Crime Beat | Out of the dark
In the summer of 2006, a young Calgary woman was on top of the world. She had a supportive family, amazing friends and a great job. But life as she knew it came to an abrupt stop in the middle of the night on August 6, 2006. In this episode, Global News senior crime reporter Nancy Hixt shares details of a violent attack- a story that’s every woman’s worst fear.
www.calgarycrimestoppers.org - reference case # 06274598
https://newsroom.calgary.ca/sexual-assault-case-from-2006-has-new-lead/
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39 min
January 23, 2024 Bad Apples | 8
To understand the present you have to look at the past. Between them, our four officers have clocked more than 100 years of police work. Their careers spanned from the 1980s to now; they worked through the protests following the police beating of Rodney King, the Black Lives Matter marches and the outpouring of grief and anger following the killing of Tyre Nichols in early 2023. In the final episode of the series, our officers reflect on their time in law enforcement and answer the ultimate, burning question: is it really, truly possible to be both Black and Blue?
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44 min
January 09, 2024 The Bridge Too Far | 7
Michael Sapp was Michael Morrison’s brother in blue, since their first day in uniform, weighing in together. They’ve faced so many of the same battles. But the two men couldn’t be more different. And when Michael Sapp’s hopes for a promotion are dashed, he feels left with no choice but to take on the system himself.
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50 min
December 26, 2023 Home is Where the Hate Is | 6
It’s 2016 and Maplewood is holding its annual July 4th celebrations. Everything is running smoothly –- until it’s not. After years of growing tension between the police and the Black community, Maplewood PD has one of its darkest nights; a night that shocks the community, and challenges its identity for years to come.
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46 min
December 12, 2023 Triple Threat | 5
As we leave Maplewood we speak to someone we haven’t heard from yet. Someone whose voice is rarely ever heard at all. Meet Tina, one of the vanishingly small number of Black women in American law enforcement. Her story will make us question why so few like her make it in the force and ultimately whether police work, for Black women, is really worth it.
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42 min
November 28, 2023 Officer, Officer, Overseer | 4
It’s 2003 and Michael Morrison progresses at Maplewood Police Department. But when an incident escalates at the local high school and Michael is forced to intervene, he’s accused of police brutality and his career is thrown into crisis. Once again he’s faced with the reality of his dual identity. But this time he’s forced to pick a side: Black or Blue?
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42 min
November 14, 2023 Sins of The Fathers | 3
Michael Morrison makes it to Maplewood. It’s a childhood dream come true: moving to the suburbs and building his ‘American dream’. He befriends Larry, one of the few Black officers at Maplewood PD. But the two quickly discover not everything in this picture-perfect town is as it seems. Beneath its idyllic surface, Maplewood’s police department has an ugly history.
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44 min

About Black and Blue: Behind the Badge

From the publisher's feed

For Michael Morrison, the police badge is his future: his ambition, his way out of poverty, his ‘American dream’. But once he puts on his uniform, the badge starts to mean something very different.