Doing Justice Excerpt: “God Forbid”

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🗓️ 10 February 2021

⏱️ 3 minutes

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The third episode of Preet's new narrative podcast Doing Justice, an adaptation of his bestselling book, is out today! In this excerpt, former SDNY prosecutor Hadassa Waxman remembers when she first saw the case file of Gilberto Valle, the so-called “Cannibal Cop.” Listen to the full episode for free here: cafe.com/doing-justice-podcast/episode-3-god-forbid Click here to subscribe to Doing Justice on Apple Podcasts: apple.co/doingjustice Click here to subscribe to Doing Justice on Spotify: spoti.fi/3rhiMUM Purchase the paperback of the bestselling book that inspired the podcast, Doing Justice: A Prosecutor's Thoughts on Crime, Punishment, and the Rule of Law: doingjusticebook.com Doing Justice is produced in collaboration with Transmitter Media. This episode was written & produced by Shoshi Shmuluvitz. Our editor is Sara Nics and the executive producer is Gretta Cohn. We had production help from Ariana Lee. The executive producer at Cafe studios is Tamara Sepper and the chief business officer is Geoff Isenman. Meral Agish fact checked this episode. And Hannis Brown composed our original music and was our mix engineer for this series. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey folks, pre here.
0:03.0	Doing justice is my new narrative podcast based on my book and brought to you by Cafe
0:06.7	Studios, The Home of Stay Tuned.
0:09.2	It explores cases from the unique perspective of prosecutors grappling with urgent legal,
0:13.2	ethical, and moral questions.
0:15.4	This is an excerpt from the third episode.
0:17.6	You can go listen to the full episode now for free.
0:20.8	Search for doing justice and subscribe wherever you're listening now.
0:28.5	He'll seem like a nice guy, a gentleman who opened doors and pulled out chairs for
0:32.8	her.
0:33.8	They moved in together, had a baby, got married.
0:38.3	And there was something else, something that really got photos attention, that raised
0:43.2	the stakes and made the whole thing, the chats and photos, seemed so much more threatening.
0:49.6	Valley wasn't just an ordinary guy looking at scary porn.
0:53.4	He was an active duty officer in the NYPD.
0:57.1	A beat cop in Upper Manhattan patrolling on the late shift, 3pm till midnight.
1:03.2	He wore a blue uniform, carried handcuffs, and a gun.
1:07.6	He's trained to some degree at least, and he's out there with a public, right?
1:12.6	If he were really planning to do the things he talked about online, there is no telling
1:16.8	how dangerous he could be.
1:19.0	So Agent Photo brought the case to my office, SDNY.
1:24.4	Prosecutor Hadasso Aksman was the first person to look at it.
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