#128 The Crime Machine, Part II

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Gimlet

Society & Culture, Documentary, Technology

4.7 • 29.4K Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2018

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

New York City cops are in a fight against their own police department. They say it’s under the control of a broken computer system that punishes cops who refuse to engage in racist, corrupt policing. The story of their fight, and the story of the grouchy idealist who originally built the machine they’re fighting. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, before you start this episode, first of all, this is part two of a two part story,
0:05.6	so make sure you've listened to part one.
0:07.5	Also, as you said at the top of the last episode, there's a couple of vivid descriptions
0:11.0	of sexual violence in this.
0:12.5	If you want to hear that, you should just skip this one.
0:20.8	From Gimlet, this is Reply All, I'm PJ Boat.
0:26.0	Okay, I should probably sit next to you just for a minute.
0:35.0	You can sit with me.
0:36.0	Okay, feel comfortable.
0:37.0	Last March, I drove out to Milloy College on Long Island, to meet with this guy named
0:40.2	John Eternal.
0:41.2	Oh, that's my mess.
0:43.2	I'm a little busy this time to be here.
0:45.1	You should see our office.
0:46.1	This is not a mess.
0:47.9	Okay.
0:48.9	John was a cop back in the Jack Maple Comset era, and he remembers being really excited
0:52.6	about Comset.
0:53.6	I think for the first time, new ideas were actually circulating in the police department.
0:58.1	Here, remember this one meeting where somebody came in and they were like, guys, we found
1:00.7	this new way to identify robbery suspects.
1:03.3	We used a yearbook, and they found the guy showing the yearbooks to the person who was
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