S15 Ep14: The Pattern of Behavior

Truth & Justice with Bob Ruff

Bob Ruff

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.6 • 7.2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

This episode is short and sweet. Bob shares a number of public cases that highlight the Benton Harbor Police Department's pattern of corruption over the span of 1995 - 2003. Research for this episode was completed primarily by listener Caroline Dwyer, with additional research by Ericka Bergenham.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	I have no secrets to have any
0:05.0	anything to lose. I have no secrets to how I could just be
0:11.6	one and people could judge it.
0:14.0	However they judge.
0:17.0	From NBI Studios, this is Truth in Justice,
0:22.0	a crowd-sourced investigation in real time.
0:24.0	I'm Bob Ruff. Oh, Everybody's sick. Not the people connected to Jody's case, but the people working on Jody's case, namely me and Erica.
0:58.0	The back-to-school bugs have infected our office and this week has been spent with both of us struggling to get anything done while
1:04.1	fighting fevers and headaches and having to leave the office to go lay down.
1:09.2	Just letting you all know that that's what's going on because this may be a record setting shortest
1:14.4	episode ever. I'm making a real effort here to make this as short and sweet as
1:18.6	possible so that I can go lay down.
1:23.6	Not gonna lie, it's been a rough one this week.
1:25.8	But the good news is that this is an episode
1:27.6	that we've been planning on putting together anyway,
1:30.0	so it seems like as good a time as any
1:32.0	to share some of these stories.
1:34.4	I want to give a big shout out to listener Caroline Dwyer for doing a lot of the legwork and
1:38.6	researching for this episode. If it weren't for her, there's a good chance this would just be a week off with no episode at all.
1:44.8	So thank you very much, Caroline.
1:48.0	Today's episode is going to be just a quick look into a few other cases out of Benton Harbor where we see similar patterns of behavior by the
1:55.4	investigators and the prosecutors.
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