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Things Police See: Firsthand Accounts

Policing Born In Racism? A Brief History Of Policing With Rev. Dr. Adam Koontz

Things Police See: Firsthand Accounts

Steven D Gould

Society & Culture, True Crime

4.91.3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 December 2022

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

In this episode Steve chats with Rev. Dr. Adam Koontz about the history of policing.  They delve into why the media labels police as racist and then attempt to claim that policing was racist from its inception.  Rev. Dr. Koontz goes deep on the history of policing dispelling the myths pushed by the corporate media.  To hear more of Rev. Dr. Koontz check out the two podcasts linked below.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey guys, welcome to the podcast interviews active and retired police officers about their

0:12.3

most intense bizarre and sometimes humorous moments on the job.

0:16.1

I'm your host, Steve.

0:17.1

Well, thank you for joining us, everybody.

0:19.4

This is going to be a special episode.

0:21.4

It's a little bit off format, but it's I'm excited to do it.

0:24.4

I think you guys are going to really enjoy it.

0:26.3

I had this idea of myself.

0:30.0

I was going to, you know, every time there's a police event in the news and it's controversial.

0:36.2

It gets everywhere and they start hammering the cops.

0:39.5

And eventually it gets out of these cops.

0:41.7

These are racist cops.

0:43.2

And then the next step is, well, policing in general is just racist and then at its inception,

0:48.7

policing has been racist.

0:49.7

The only thing we can do is get rid of it.

0:51.2

So it's just kind of this madness that steps up and it's super aggravating.

0:56.0

I get messages from you guys whenever it's going on and I thought maybe, maybe I could

1:00.6

do an episode where I talk about the history of policing and how it relates to racism and

1:06.5

culture and how it evolved.

1:09.6

And I realized I still have the bandwidth to do that.

1:11.7

I started reading about it and I was like, I got a, I got to know a guy who can take

1:16.4

care of this.

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