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    10.05.2024 - 11:00 - Quelle: Criminal

    When we last spoke with Trevell Coleman, he was waiting to hear back about his clemency application. And then, in December of last year, his lawyer got a phone call.

    We shared Trevell’s story in two episodes we released last fall. They’re called The Confession Part 1 and 2.

    Episode transcript will be posted here as soon as it is available. 

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    03.05.2024 - 11:00 - Quelle: Criminal

    In 1991, two police officers stopped Tupac Shakur for jaywalking. He said he was knocked unconscious during his arrest, and sued the city of Oakland for 10 million dollars. His lawyer says many of the police brutality cases he’s worked on started with jaywalking stops.

    Peter Norton’s book is Fighting Traffic.

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    26.04.2024 - 11:00 - Quelle: Criminal

    In 1980, posters appeared in subway stations and on telephone poles in New York City with a phone number to call. When you called it, you would hear a message: “This is Apology. Apology is not associated with the police or any other organization but rather is a way for you to tell people what you have done wrong and how you feel about it.”

    Episode transcript will be posted here as soon as it is available. 

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    19.04.2024 - 11:00 - Quelle: Criminal

    When he was 14 years old, Ron Bishop testified in a murder trial. Decades later, he told an investigator everything he said on the stand was a lie – and that it was just what he was told to say.

    Episode transcript will be posted here as soon as it is available. 

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    12.04.2024 - 11:00 - Quelle: Criminal

    When people started saying that John D. Rockefeller Jr. was responsible for the deaths of two women and 11 children near a coal mine in Colorado, he decided to do something unusual. He hired “the father of public relations.”

    Scott Martelle’s book is Blood Passion: The Ludlow Massacre and Class War in the American West.

    Amy Westervelt’s podcast is called Drilled.

    Episode transcript will be posted here as soon as it is available. 

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    05.04.2024 - 11:00 - Quelle: Criminal

    Sultan Alam was the first Pakistani officer to join the traffic department of the Cleveland Police in the UK. He was harassed at work and complained to his senior officers about it. Then his coworkers showed up at his house to arrest him.

    Episode transcript will be posted here as soon as it is available.

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    22.03.2024 - 10:00 - Quelle: Criminal

    For almost thirty years, Adolfo Kaminsky lived quietly, forging documents for people all over the world. It started when he was 18.

    Sarah Kaminsky’s book is Adolfo Kaminsky: A Forger’s Life.

    Episode transcript will be posted here as soon as it is available.

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    15.03.2024 - 10:00 - Quelle: Criminal

    As the famous English actor William Macready was preparing to go on stage in New York, over 300 police officers were placed in and around the theater. “But the head of the police said, ‘I don’t know that that’s going to be enough people.’” 

    Karl Kippola’s book is called Acts of Manhood: The Performance of Masculinity on the American Stage, 1828–1865.

    Episode transcript will be posted here as soon as it is available.

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    08.03.2024 - 11:00 - Quelle: Criminal
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    01.03.2024 - 11:00 - Quelle: Criminal
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