Presenting: On Our Watch

Louder Than A Riot

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Music History, Music, Society & Culture, Music Interviews, True Crime

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🗓️ 1 June 2021

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Summary

What happens to police officers who use excessive force, tamper with evidence or sexually harass someone? In California, internal affairs investigations were kept secret from the public — until a recent transparency law unsealed thousands of files. On Our Watch is a limited-run podcast from NPR and KQED that brings you into the rooms where officers are interrogated and witnesses are questioned to find out who the system of police accountability really serves, and who it protects.

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0:00.0	Hey y'all, right in here.
0:01.6	And Sydney, you know us.
0:04.3	We're the host of Loud of the N'RIide from MPR Music.
0:07.2	And we're still hard at work covering all things rhyme and punishment.
0:10.6	Yeah, but this week we had to tell you about a new investigative podcast.
0:15.7	One of our producer partners from Loud of the N'RIide has been cooking up.
0:19.5	We think you might dig it.
0:20.8	It's called On Our Watch, the series that investigates who polices the police.
0:26.6	Yeah, because there's always been something so problematic about the fact that law enforcement
0:31.7	is only accountable to other law enforcement when something allegedly criminal goes on within
0:37.5	their ranks. And those internal investigations are almost always off limits to the public.
0:42.9	But in 2018, a transparency law in California changed that.
0:47.6	It unsealed thousands of files and recordings.
0:50.4	On Our Watch brings you into interrogation rooms where officers and witnesses are questioned.
0:56.0	Find out what really happens behind closed doors.
0:59.3	After things like police shootings, police brutality, and more can't report it.
1:04.0	Yeah, and in this episode you're about to hear, I mean, it's a wild truth.
1:07.2	We learn about how a culture of sexual harassment thrived within the California highway patrol.
1:13.8	At the same time that the rest of the country was reckoning with me too.
1:17.9	You're going to be shocked. New from MPR and KQED. This is On Our Watch.
1:24.4	Check it out.
1:29.8	Okay, Officer McGrew, how long have you been employed as a peace officer with the California
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