There’s a reason the History Channel has produced hundreds of documentaries about Hitler but only a few about Dwight D. Eisenhower. Bad guys (and gals) are eternally fascinating. Behind the Bastards dives in past the Cliffs Notes of the worst humans in history and exposes the bizarre realities of their lives. Listeners will learn about the young adult novels that helped Hitler form his monstrous ideology, the founder of Blackwater’s insane quest to build his own Air Force, the bizarre lives of the sons and daughters of dictators and Saddam Hussein’s side career as a trashy romance novelist.
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episode 5: Behind the Police: How Police Unions Made Cops Even Deadlier
If you thought police were deadly up till this point, wait until you hear about what unionization did to the U.S. police (hint: it got a hell of a lot of the rest of us killed.)
FOOTNOTES:
- The History of Policing in the United States
- Study finds misconduct spreads among police officers like contagion
- The End of Policing
- How Police Unions Became Such Powerful Opponents to Reform Efforts
- The unjust power of police unions
- How Police Unions Enable and Conceal Abuses of Power
- Minneapolis Police Union President Allegedly Wore a “White Power Patch” and Made Racist Remarks
- Police chiefs are often forced to put officers fired for misconduct back on the streets
- How a 50-year-old study was misconstrued to create destructive broken-windows policing
- In New York, major crime complaints fell when cops took a break from ‘proactive policing’
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