Looking for Crime in All the Wrong Places

Angry Planet

Matthew Gault

War, Politics, Conflict, Government, History, News

4.3 • 882 Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Law and order, it’s one of the catchphrases of this election. Crime rates, in some cities in America, are on the rise but crime, in general, is down. But 2020 has been a chaotic year and our news feeds are filled with violent images of militant groups, protestors, riots, burning buildings, and everything in between. The sad fact is that not all crime in America is reported on in the same way, that the protest movement is overwhelmingly peaceful, but not always, and that police militarization has exacerbated all our current problems.

Here to help us untangle some of this is Danny Gold. Gold is a Pulitzer Center grantee, a documentary producer whose work has appeared in VICE Nice, The New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal. He’s also the host of the new Underworld Podcast—a series about the global criminal underworld.

Recorded 10/6/20

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0:00.0	Love this podcast support this show through the a cast supporter feature
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0:19.0	There was footage of like, I forget what car was,
0:21.0	like a $250,000 car in sojo as a watch shop was being looted.
0:25.6	These aren't protesters. I had this wasn't reported but there was a restaurant
0:30.1	order in the East Village who he was one of maybe six or seven stores they get hit on the same block
0:35.8	during the nights of the looting and they skipped over the alcohol they skipped everything else
0:40.8	they went right for the safe in the basement. So I mean that's someone
0:43.6	with inside knowledge. That's an insider job and it was six or seven stores on the same block that were hit. So I do think from what I've seen and people I've spoken to when it comes to Minnesota, when it comes to
0:55.1	Portland, when it comes to Seattle, the protest and the looting in New York looked very, very
1:00.8	different. looked very, very difficult. One day, all of the facts in about 30 years time will be published.
1:10.0	When genocide has been carried out in this country almost with infinity and when it is near to completion,
1:19.0	when people talk about intervention.
2:07.0	They will be met with fire, fury, and frankly power, the likes of which this world has never seen before. So, Hello, welcome to Angry Planet. I'm Matthew Galt. And I'm Jason Fields. Law and order, it's one of the catchphrases of this election. Crime rates in some cities in America are on the rise, but crime in general is down.
2:15.5	But 2020 has been a chaotic year and our news feeds are filled with violent images of
2:19.3	militant groups, protesters, peaceful, but not always, and that police militarization has exacerbated all of our current problems.
2:37.0	Here to help us untangle some of this is Danny Gold.
2:40.0	Gold is a Pulitzer Center grantee, a documentary producer whose work has appeared on Vice News, the New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal.
2:48.0	He's also the host of the New Underworld podcast, a series about the Global Criminal Underworld. Danny, thank you so much for joining us.
2:55.0	Thanks for having me guys.
2:57.0	All right, you do a lot of coverage of St. Louis.
3:00.0	I have made a big documentary in St. Louis last year and went back and worked on
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