Behind the Police: How The Police Defeated Ly...

All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file. - How the United States Shaped the Dominican Republic’s Immigration Enforcement Machine - Settler Colonialism with Andrew - Anti-ICE Protesters in Minnesota Charged with Conspiracy - The Necessary ...  Show more

Robert concludes the heroic story of a fake bomb detector that got forced on Iraq leading to hundreds of deaths. Sources: https://corruption-tracker.org/case/the-worldwide-fake-bomb-detector-scam https://archive.is/ykgSC https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-29459896 https://www.bbc.com/ne ...  Show more

When U.S. police departments didn't evolve out of slave patrols, they tended to form out of a desire to protect the property of the wealthy. In practice, this meant beating, murdering and arresting people who didn't want to work 12 hour days until they died.FOOTNOTES: Krypteia: A ...  Show more

As protests against police brutality continue across the country, there are calls to reform, defund, and even abolish the police. So, what does it all mean? Don talks to Newark Mayor Ras Baraka about the reforms he’s implementing in a city with a long history of tension between t ...  Show more

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 and Brown communities in particular, has spanned centuries and retired NYPD de ...  Show more

As the United States grapples with the killing of Tyre Nichols, a 29-year-old black man who died after being beaten by five police officers in Memphis in January, Katie Stallard speaks to Neil Gross, a former police officer and professor of sociology at Colby College. They discus ...  Show more