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Truth & Justice with Bob Ruff

Andrew Collins - A Crooked Cop

Truth & Justice with Bob Ruff

Bob Ruff

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.67.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2022

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Andrew Collins speaks with Bob about the slippery slope that led him down the path of a corrupt police officer. He tells the story of how he framed an innocent man, and then later traded places with him in prison. His shocking story contains valuable lessons about how and why wrongful convictions happen.

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0:00.0

From NBI Studios, this is Truth Injustice, a crowdsourced investigation in real time.

0:15.9

I'm Bob Rock.

0:33.9

Hello everybody and welcome back to Truth Injustice. For this week's bonus episode, I have a pretty

0:40.0

incredible guest that I think a lot of you are going to dislike a whole lot for about half of the

0:46.7

episode and then you're going to like him a whole lot for the second half. My guest today's name is

0:50.9

Andrew Collins. He was a former Benton Harbor Police Department here at Benton Harbor Michigan,

0:54.9

just about 20 minutes from where I live right now as a matter of fact, a lot of the people he's

0:59.0

talking about in this interview I know them personally. Andrew started off his career in the police

1:04.8

forces, a 21 year old kid who had the best intentions in mind. But as often happens in the police

1:10.4

department, different incentives and ego and things got in the way, Andrew began bending the

1:16.5

rules and it led to a pretty incredible and amazing story. I don't want to give it away. Andrew's

1:21.4

going to tell it all right here in this interview right after a break. Andrew, thank you so much

1:39.0

for taking the time to join me today. Yeah, absolutely. Thanks for having me.

1:43.4

Yeah, so now I was going to sad enough you remember this, but I'm almost certain you don't,

1:48.1

but we actually met very briefly. I don't know. Gosh, man, it's been five or six years ago with

1:54.7

the Blue Roof Church in St. Joe Michigan. Yeah, I remember Janelle and I coming there to speak,

2:01.0

but there's been a plethora of human beings that have been great, but I do not get well with names

2:08.7

and faces. Yeah, I ran up amongst all the other people afterwards after you guys had spoken.

2:14.6

I was trying to get an interview with you, but you were you guys were just getting ready to put

2:17.6

your book out and all that stuff was going on right then. But man, ever since then,

2:23.5

I heard you guys, there was a friend of mine told me that you guys were coming to speak,

2:27.2

that you and Janelle were going to be there and thought I should come and I meant it was the story

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