That Time The Oakland Police Formed a Torture Gang

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05/11/23 • 40 min

It Could Happen Here

Robert sits down with Ali Winston, co-author of The Riders Come Out At Night, a book about the Oakland police.

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Robert sits down with Ali Winston, co-author of The Riders Come Out At Night, a book about the Oakland police.

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It Could Happen Here - That Time The Oakland Police Formed a Torture Gang

Transcript

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Ah, welcome to It could Happen Here. This is Robert Evans, and it Could Happen Here is a podcast about things falling apart and you know, sometimes about making them better. Today we're talking both about something that is implicated in a number of aspects of what we call the crumbles here in the United States, which is the police. And we're also talking about the tremendous difficulty that people encounter whenever they try to improve this parti