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The police tell us they are here to protect us. But what if their original purpose was something else altogether? Peabody Award-winning host Chenjerai Kumanyika takes listeners on a journey to uncover the hidden history of the largest police force in the world – from its roots in slavery, to rival police gangs battling across the city, to everyday people who resisted every step of the way. As our society debates where policing is going, Empire City: The Untold Origin Story of the NYPD explor ...
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Unfinished Justice is an inside look at the NYPD's Cold Case Squad. Each episode of this 10 part series follows the cold case detectives as they investigate – and hopefully solve – some of the most gripping cases to ever go cold at the NYPD. Unfinished Justice: Inside the NYPD Cold Case Squad is narrated by Vito Spano, the former commander of the NYPD Cold Case Squad from 2001 to 2004 and features other key contributors. The podcast shows the obsessive determination of Vito and his former co ...
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New York’s Mayor Eric Adams has been indicted and charged by the federal government with corruption, wire fraud, bribery and more. Could we have predicted what kind of mayor Adams would become based on the culture he was a part of in the NYPD? Chenjerai and attorney John Teufel, who has investigated police misconduct, discuss the implications of th…
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"Woop! Woop! That’s the sound of da police! Conscious and Frankie welcome Dr. Chenjerai Kumanyika – host of Empire City: The Untold Origin Story of the NYPD. Dr. Kumanyika’s podcast is a deeply personal tale of his relationship to policing, the history of the NYPD and its long reaching impact in police departments across the nation. Are the police …
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The NYPD loves to show off its diversity, but it often hides how hard and long it fought that diversity. Chenjerai takes us back in time to the real story of how the NYPD got its first Black cop – and how decades later, Black cops went to war with the NYPD’s union to push for civilian oversight of the police. But how effective is reform if the poli…
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New York’s police start to realize that beating up and arresting immigrants is making them distrustful of cops. In response, a police chief has an idea, borne out of his time colonizing the Philippines: control the population by recruiting local community members to police their own people. From Wondery, Crooked Media and PushBlack. Empire City is …
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It’s like clockwork: every 20 years or so, a corruption scandal forces the NYPD into the hot seat. But how did this cycle begin? To find out, we go back over a century ago to the very first investigation into the police where the NYPD is put on trial like never before. From Wondery, Crooked Media and PushBlack. Empire City is made with a commitment…
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Officers in early New York didn’t just police the city’s vice economy; they profited from it. But when America’s first professional vice fighter Anthony Comstock strong-arms the NYPD into enforcing his vision of morality, he also transformed how and what we police. From Wondery, Crooked Media and PushBlack. Empire City is made with a commitment to …
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Horrific race riots erupt when New York City starts to draft soldiers into the Civil War. A mob of white people, who resent fighting for emancipation, direct their rage at the Black community as well as the police… and all hell breaks loose. The NYPD pushes for more firearms – but will they use them to protect New York’s most vulnerable, or subdue …
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New York’s power-hungry mayor weaponizes the police to help him control the city – and bulldoze a thriving Black community for his own real estate profits. The state, fearing that the mayor and his police have become too strong, wage a war for control – and create their own rival force. From Wondery, Crooked Media and PushBlack. Empire City is made…
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Before the NYPD existed, New Yorkers strongly opposed the idea of an armed police force – until a powerful news publisher changed everything. After a grisly murder takes place, the city’s newspapers sensationalize the story, blame the cops, and a new force is born. But will these cops work to solve the case or will they spend their days hunting som…
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Chenjerai takes us back to the summer of 1835, when Black New Yorkers are being kidnapped and sold into slavery in the south. But their friends and families can’t call the cops, because it turns out the kidnappers are the cops…can a group of Black resistance fighters stop it? From Wondery, Crooked Media and PushBlack. Empire City is made with a com…
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The police tell us they are here to protect us. But what if their original purpose was something else altogether? Peabody Award-winning host Chenjerai Kumanyika takes listeners on a journey to uncover the hidden history of the largest police force in the world – from its roots in slavery, to rival police gangs battling across the city, to everyday …
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Walter Mack’s work on the stolen car ring uncovered a killing spree. After years of preparation and investigation, Mack would finally have the chance to prosecute the case of his life – and take down the Gambino crime family at the same time. This is the second of two episodes that focuses on connected Mob killings that resulted in dozens of cold c…
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When prosecutor Walter Mack volunteered to take on what he assumed was a “simplistic” case involving a few stolen cars, he had no way of knowing that this “boring” case would ultimately reach the top of organized crime in the City, change the course of New York City law enforcement, and ultimately clear dozens of cold case murders. This is the firs…
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For years, Mickey Spillane ran the Irish mob that controlled the Hell’s Kitchen section of Manhattan. Behind the scenes, he controlled the area by ordering kidnappings and killings, but in public he always wore a dapper suit and an easy smile, earning the nickname of the Gentleman Gangster. When a new generation of Irish gangsters known as The West…
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New York City was shocked when a glamorous fashion model was found murdered in her apartment at the height of the glitzy 1980s. It was hard to find anyone who didn’t love her. But as the detectives on the case started looking deeper they found a number of possible suspects within her orbit. It wasn’t until years later when one of those suspects eme…
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When Brazilian-born Maria Isabel Pinto Monteiro Alves went for her daily run in Central Park, she didn’t know it’d be her last. After her body was found, the murder became a cold case and an international incident as the Brazilian government demanded answers. The pressure was on the cold case detectives who struggled to find any leads – until an un…
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The most famous cold case in NYPD history: the case of Baby Hope. It’s a case that spanned three decades. The Cold Case detectives simply wouldn’t stop working the case of the unnamed four year old baby found on the side of the road – not until they solved it. And the detectives who cracked the case tell us how they did it. Credits: Executive Produ…
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It was Christmas time when the 911 call came in. A husband and wife were brutally murdered in their nice apartment, and their young children discovered the bodies. The year was 1996, the same year that the NYPD created the Cold Case Squad to help clear the thousands of unsolved murders in the city of 8 million. The case stumped the NYPD for years u…
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Unfinished Justice is an inside look at the NYPD's Cold Case Squad. Each episode of this 10 part series follows the cold case detectives as they investigate – and hopefully solve – some of the most gripping cases to ever go cold at the NYPD. Unfinished Justice: Inside the NYPD Cold Case Squad is narrated by Vito Spano, the former commander of the N…
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After a 6 month hiatus, Nadia & Kabuki are back in town with Season 2 of After Dark featuring a look into some of the craziest deaths to ever happen in public - whether it be on TV or in the movies, Live on stage or elsewhere we're talking about it! Also BONUS see if you can hear the ghostly EVP around 1 hour and 24 minutes in and let us know what …
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