Political Gabfest - Introducing Charged: A True Punishment Story
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 17 April 2019
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
For two and a half years, Emily Bazelon has been following people through a special court in New York designed to be a speedy machine for the harsh punishment of illegal gun possession. Along the way, a strange thing happened — the politics outside the courtroom started to change when a new generation of activists and insiders began challenging the old system the gun court was part of. Season 1 of Slate Presents brought you the story of Ruby Ridge, and Season 2 brings you a fight to transform one big-city justice system.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, GabFest listeners, it's me, Emily. You've been hearing about my book and podcast charged, |
| 0:05.5 | and I am so excited to finally bring you the first episode today. You're going to meet the two |
| 0:10.5 | main characters in the podcast, Eric and Terrari. They were born in the same neighborhood in Brooklyn, |
| 0:15.8 | a generation apart, but their lives have taken entirely different paths. All season long, |
| 0:20.7 | we're going to follow them |
| 0:21.5 | as we consider what makes someone a criminal and how America could reshape its criminal justice system. |
| 0:26.7 | If you want to hear the full series, and I really hope you do, subscribe to Charged in its own feed. |
| 0:32.0 | We're only dropping the first episode here in the Gab Fest. You can find links about how to do that in the description of this |
| 0:37.9 | podcast, or you can search for Charged in Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen. Thanks so much, |
| 0:43.7 | and now here it is, episode one of Charged, a true punishment story. Enjoy the show. |
| 0:50.3 | A bit of housekeeping before we get started. This podcast is a co-production of Slate and the Appeal, a new publication about the justice system. |
| 0:58.8 | And it's a companion to my new book, also called Charged, and available wherever you buy books. |
| 1:04.3 | Okay, thanks for listening. Here's the show. |
| 1:08.0 | It's an elementary rule of politics. |
| 1:14.1 | Any elected mayor has to have the police on their side. |
| 1:22.4 | But from the day Bill de Blasio took his seat at City Hall in New York, his relationship with the police went from bad to worse to catastrophic. |
| 1:28.7 | First, de Blasio cut way back on the practice of stop and frisk, the cop's favorite tool for shaking down people on the street. Then, a white officer killed an unarmed black man on a Staten Island |
| 1:34.3 | sidewalk. That death rocked the city. Thousands of protesters took to the streets demanding justice |
| 1:40.1 | for the death of Eric Garner. At least 30 people... De Blasio blamed the tragedy on, his words, a history of racism. |
| 1:47.7 | Every New York cop felt implicated. |
| 1:50.4 | Next, de Blasio went on TV and said he'd warned his biracial son to be very careful around the police. |
| 1:56.2 | So now it was personal. |
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