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Criminal

Becoming Chief Brown

Criminal

Vox Media Podcast Network

Society & Culture, True Crime

4.739.4K Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2017

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Shortly after David Brown was sworn in as the Dallas Chief of Police, his son shot and killed a police officer. Just before he retired as chief, 5 Dallas officers were shot and killed in what was said to be the deadliest attack for police officers since September 11th, 2001. Today on the show, we ask David Brown how he’s changed after 33 years of policing. Say hello on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Sign up for our occasional newsletter, The Accomplice. Follow the show and review us on Apple Podcasts: iTunes.com/CriminalShow. We also make This is Love and Phoebe Reads a Mystery. Artwork by Julienne Alexander. Check out our online shop.  Episode transcripts are posted on our website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:13.7

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0:18.4

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0:21.3

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0:25.0

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0:35.0

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0:38.0

And the Barclays Women's Super League.

0:41.0

We're here for the football chance for giving more girls a chance. We're

0:48.1

here for the grassroots and all the muddy booths. From schools to stadiums, we're here for it all.

0:56.0

Barclays, here for the land of football.

1:02.0

Cops can sometimes make bad things worse. And cops know this as well. You know, there's some

1:08.4

cops that I wouldn't want to ride with. They ratchet things up and can't de-escalate things.

1:13.0

Say things to make everybody angry again.

1:16.0

Or just start people to go on at it with you causing you be a villain when they're fighting each other because they have no control of their

1:25.6

temperament. So there are bad cops? Yes, without question.

1:30.8

cops will tell you that as well. And I would say not bad cops,

1:35.2

people who should not be police officers.

1:38.2

This is former Dallas police chief, David Brown.

1:41.7

He was born in 1960 in the Oak Cliff neighborhood of Dallas, a

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