Pourquoi la police britannique n'est pas armé...

Dans l’imaginaire collectif, le bouffon de cour est presque toujours un homme. Pourtant, les archives montrent que des femmes occupaient aussi ce rôle, en particulier dans les cours princières et royales d’Europe. Elles étaient plus rares, mais pas exceptionnelles.Comme leurs hom ...  Show more

L’expression « vouer aux gémonies » signifie condamner publiquement quelqu’un ou quelque chose, l’exposer au mépris général, le couvrir de honte et de discrédit. Aujourd’hui, on l’emploie surtout au sens figuré : un responsable politique, une décision ou une œuvre peuvent être « ...  Show more

To begin, the title of our podcast is a generalization many of us are familiar with. Some British police officers actually do carry weapons beyond the traditional police baton. So exactly what is the situation? Let’s start with some numbers. In the UK, less than 5% of the police ...  Show more

Trevor reflects on the ever-present occurrence of deadly police violence against Black people in the U.S. and the seeming lack of cops willing to rise up and take a stand against it. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/lis ...  Show more

When did the first professional police force come into being? Why do the British police largely not carry guns? And what was the point of police boxes? In our latest ‘Everything you wanted to know’ episode, Chris Williams answers your questions on the history of law enforcement i ...  Show more

The U.S. is an outlier when it comes to policing, as evidenced by more than 1,000 fatal shootings by police each year. But we’re an outlier in other ways too: a heavily-armed populace, a fragile mental-health system, and the fact that we spend so much time in our cars. Add in ...