11/19/21 Samantha Melamed on the Epidemic of Coerced Confessions in the Philadelphia Police Department

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Scott Horton

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4.8 • 989 Ratings

🗓️ 23 November 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Scott is joined by Samantha Melamed of the Philadelphia Inquirer to talk about a series of articles she wrote called The Homicide Files. Since 2018, a total of 22 people convicted of murder have been exonerated. Melamed tells a couple of these stories and ties them into the broader historical context of the decades of gross misconduct in the Philadelphia Police Department. Discussed on the show: “The Homicide Files” (The Philadelphia Inquirer) Samantha Melamed has been a reporter at the Philadelphia Inquirer since 2013. She covers issues of identity, race, social justice, as well as prisons and the legal system. Follow her on Twitter @samanthamelamed This episode of the Scott Horton Show is sponsored by: The War State and Why The Vietnam War?, by Mike Swanson; Tom Woods’ Liberty Classroom; ExpandDesigns.com/Scott; EasyShip; Dröm; Free Range Feeder; Thc Hemp Spot; Green Mill Supercritical; Bug-A-Salt; Lorenzotti Coffee and Listen and Think Audio. Shop Libertarian Institute merch or donate to the show through Patreon, PayPal or Bitcoin: 1DZBZNJrxUhQhEzgDh7k8JXHXRjYu5tZiG. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:48.0	Siamamad. She is a reporter at the Philadelphia Inquirer and she has this incredible news series out
0:57.0	over really came out started last month in the Inquirer and it's called the homicide files.
1:06.2	It's a five-part series and a full investigation of many aspects
1:12.3	of the murder prosecutions in
1:15.9	in Philadelphia over the last 40 years and more.
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