Crushing The Crime Narrative w/ Alex Vitale & David Doel (Ep 296)

The Bitchuation Room

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News Commentary, News, Comedy, Government

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2025

⏱️ 89 minutes

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This week in ‘billionaires ruin everything’: CBS’s David Ellison is foaming at the mouth to hand over millions to Bari Weiss and her “Free Press” brand. David Doel of The Rational National joins to break down the Free Press-ification of the mainstream outlet. Plus, new reporting shows ICE is working with Israeli spyware company Paragon, whose tools can crack encrypted apps, hijack microphones, and track your every move. Should we all get flip phones? Or land line phones shaped like lips? Then, as Trump attempts to invade Chicago and threatens that the city will "find out why it's called the Department of WAR," we discuss the militarization of cops and fetishization of crime rates that led us here with the author of 'The End of Policing' Alex Vitale. **** Support real independent media and become a Patron of The Bitchuation Room: https://www.patreon.com/bitchuationroom. You can also be a member on YouTube, Twitch, or a paid subscriber on substack: franifio.substack.com. *** See Francesca LIVE PASADENA - October 1st- New World Disorder. Tickets here: https://www.showclix.com/event/new-world-disorder-10-01-25-7-45-pm BROOKLYN - October 13th Francesca and Matt will co-headline The Bell House. Tickets here: https://www.ticketmaster.com/event/300062E2C3694548 Get 20% off SUNSET LAKE CBD with code FRANTIFA at check out. Explore all their organic, vertically-integrated craft CBD products including tinctures, gummies, smokables, salves and more: https://www.sunsetlakecbd.com *** Tip the show: Venmo: @TBR-LIVE Cash-App: @TBRLIVE Get your union-made TBR merch: www.bitchuationroom.com *** Thanks to Paige Oamek, Andy Vasoyan & Brent Godin *** Follow The Bitchuation Room on Twitter @BitchuationPod Check Out The Bitchuation Room Podcast on: iTunes: http://bit.ly/iTunesbitchuation Google Music: http://bit.ly/GoogleBitchuation Stitcher: http://bit.ly/stitcherbitchuation Spotify: http://bit.ly/spotifybitchuation Find Francesca On: Twitter: https://twitter.com/franifio YouTube: The Bitchuation Room’s channel: https://www.youtube.com/franifio Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/franifio Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Franifio Insta: https://www.instagram.com/franifio/ BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/bitchuationroom.bsky.social Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is all about the projection of power, not about public safety.
0:05.0	And really, anytime you hear a politician talking about crime numbers, that should be a red flag.
0:13.0	Hello everybody and welcome to the Bituation Room podcast.
0:26.0	Notes from The Sunk in Place.
0:28.7	It is Tuesday, September 9th, one day before my birthday.
0:32.4	That is right.
0:33.3	I'm 28 again.
0:36.0	I am coming to you live from a home studio with terrible internet connection
0:41.8	that somehow is nobody's fault but the gods.
0:46.7	And Mossad, probably.
0:49.0	We have a great show for you today.
0:50.6	Professor Alex Vitale, who writes about the militarization of police and has
0:56.4	consistently made incredible arguments for a dismantling of police forces because precisely of the
1:07.8	kinds of militarization we're seeing throughout American cities,
1:11.6	a restorative justice approach, a defund argument, if you will, that, yes, I still stand behind.
1:19.6	He'll be joining us a little bit later on to talk about ICE, police, and the broader democratic narrative around crime that has been lost, truly lost.
1:30.3	But before, David Dole of the YouTube channel, the Rational National, and boy, is he rational,
1:40.3	and not a nationalist, but just a rational national,
1:45.0	he's joining us all the way from kind of duh.
1:49.6	He's outside of Toronto, where it is safe and better than here.
1:56.1	And he's going to join me.
1:57.1	We're going to talk about CBS's new pathetic move, which, you know, might not
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