3: Nothing Is Voluntary When You Have Handcuffs On

Headlong: Running from COPS

Topic / Pineapple Street Media / Dan Taberski

Serial, Society & Culture, Tv & Film, True Crime

4.8 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2019

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

COPS producers claim every suspect on the show agrees in writing to appear on TV. Why would anyone sign that piece of paper? Plus: Who has final control over what airs on COPS, the producers or the police?

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0:00.0	This episode of Rying From Cops contains some pretty rough scenes of policing
0:04.7	on television, as well as audio of people in distressing situations that you
0:08.9	might find upsetting. Thanks for listening.
0:12.0	Previously on Running From Cops.
0:15.3	When I became a cop, the war on drugs was raging.
0:19.4	Got him. Hey, get down bud. Hey, hands on him here right here.
0:24.1	We went, I went from a restaurant six, seven, eight, nine guys a month to a
0:28.1	restaurant and over 300 people a month. I mean, it was crazy.
0:31.1	I think he's a good jail. So he's not helping us.
0:34.0	He's not just cooperating with us at all.
0:35.8	And we wouldn't have done a quite successful if it wasn't for cops.
0:39.1	Nothing as his compelling is cops breaking down doors and throwing people on the
0:44.1	ground and arresting them.
0:46.2	Come on out here. Just keep your hands where I can see him. I see the dope pipe in your hand, dude.
0:50.1	Well, what happens if we just arrest a few hundred thousand mostly black and
0:53.8	brown young men and lock them up and upstate prisons?
0:57.4	Will that have any impact on the drug problem in America?
1:01.3	David, we know what she takes. We know how to help you.
1:04.1	No, I've never signed anything at all.
1:06.8	I'll just require to get permission.
1:08.8	They are. They're required to have you sign a release.
1:12.6	Yeah, never sign anything anywhere anytime.
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