Imperfect Paradise: The Sheriff

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🗓️ 28 November 2022

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Sheriff Alex Villanueva won office in 2018 campaigning as a reformer who’ll clean up the scandal-plagued L.A. County Sheriff's Department. After criticism he was doing the opposite, Villanueva doubled down on his efforts to abuse his power, vilify the press, and investigate his rivals. “Imperfect Paradise: The Sheriff” from LAist Studios examines the controversial head of one of the nation’s largest law enforcement agencies. Host Frank Stoltze interviews Villanueva and talks to his critics to learn how he wields his power, going from a progressive sheriff’s candidate to a right-wing media darling.

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0:00.0	To get the Crime Riders on after show right now, go to patreon.com slash partners in crime
0:06.0	media.
0:07.0	I'm Rebecca LaVoy and this is Crime Riders on.
0:23.6	Crime Riders on is the original True Crime Review podcast that digs in a true crime,
0:28.2	up culture, other podcasts.
0:30.3	And on this episode, he said he'd reformed the troubled LA County Sheriff's Department.
0:35.8	Instead, he came to embody its darkest values.
0:39.9	We'll review imperfect paradise, the sheriff.
0:44.0	Joining me to get that done and more is True Crime author, TV journalist and host of the
0:49.1	These Are Their Stories podcast, my husband and love of my life, Kevin Flynn.
0:53.2	Hello, Kevin.
0:54.2	Hello, Rebecca.
0:55.2	Why are you so down?
0:57.0	I went to the dentist today.
0:59.0	Yeah.
1:00.0	And they didn't do anything like that.
1:03.0	But you know the thing when they take the pick and they go into your gums, they go all
1:07.0	over and they're like three, three, two, four, one, two, three.
1:10.6	You're checking your pocket.
1:11.6	I didn't hear any big numbers, but my whole gum line just all swollen just from poking
1:18.6	around and stuff.
1:19.6	Did you take any Advil?
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