Undercover Cop: "Drug Policing Makes Things Worse"
TRIGGERnometry
Konstantin Kisin & Francis Foster
4.5 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 26 May 2022
⏱️ 65 minutes
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| 0:15.5 | I worked on the cover for about just less than 14 years, so I used to catch drug dealers for |
| 0:20.4 | living, essentially. And over that space of time, I realised that everything that I was doing |
| 0:28.9 | was not only futile, because futility would be bad enough. But it actually was causing immense |
| 0:34.1 | harm not only to individuals who are vulnerable people who needed help, but also it was actively |
| 0:39.8 | increasing the levels of crime, in particular violent crime, in our society. |
| 0:50.2 | Hello and welcome to Trigonometry. I'm Francis Foster. I'm Constantin Kitten. |
| 0:55.4 | And this is a show for you, if you want honest conversations with fascinating people. |
| 1:00.9 | Our fantastic guest today is a former undercover police officer here in the UK. |
| 1:05.9 | Neil Woods, welcome to Trigonometry. Thank you. It's great to have you on the show. |
| 1:09.6 | We've got so much to talk with you about. We're going to talk about drugs. We're going to talk |
| 1:12.9 | about corruption and the police force. We'll talk about lots of things. Before we do, for those |
| 1:17.3 | people in our audience watching and listening who don't know who you are, what is your story? |
| 1:21.0 | Who are you? How are you where you are? How are you sitting here talking to us? |
| 1:25.3 | Well, I am a former police officer, former undercover police officer, and I worked on the cover |
| 1:31.0 | for about for just less than 14 years. And I used to almost entirely investigate drugs fences. |
| 1:40.0 | So I used to catch drug dealers for a living, essentially. And over that space of time, |
| 1:45.5 | I realized that everything that I was doing was not only futile, because futility would be bad |
| 1:52.6 | enough, but it actually was causing immense harm not only to individuals who were vulnerable |
| 1:57.7 | people who needed help, but also it was actively increasing the levels of crime, in particular, |
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