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Death, Sex & Money

What Money Can't Solve

Death, Sex & Money

Slate Audio

Careers, Sexuality, Business, Health & Fitness, Relationships, Society & Culture

4.67.7K Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2020

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

A confession is tortured out of a suspect. He goes to prison. Back in 2016, he got a check for what he endured. But forgiveness is not part of the bargain.  NPR's Planet Money collaborated with us on this episode. Listen to their version with an update from Darrell here. And to view the online archive of documents from the Invisible Institute's Police Torture Archive referenced in this episode, click here.  Support Death, Sex & Money by becoming a monthly sustaining member. Sign up now. Follow the show on Twitter @deathsexmoney and Facebook at facebook.com/deathsexmoney. Sign up for the Death, Sex & Money newsletter at deathsexmoney.org/newsletter, and email us any time at deathsexmoney@wnyc.org. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey, it's Anna. This week we are re-releasing an episode we co-produced with NPR's Planet Money. It's about reparations, racism, and torture by police in Chicago. We first released it back in November 2016. I co-hosted this episode with Noelle King, who was then at Planet Money and is now an anchor on NPR's Morning Edition.

0:21.2

And this episode is as important a story now as it was then.

0:26.5

He said, you're going to tell us what we want to know?

0:29.3

And I looked at him,

0:31.2

I said, I ain't got nothing to tell you.

0:33.0

He said, okay, you're going to talk for the day as old with,

0:36.3

and he put the cowprop back in the bag and walked back out. This is death, sex, and money. The show from WNYC about the things we think about a lot and need to talk about more. I'm Aniseo.

0:59.2

And this is Darrell Cannon.

1:05.6

Growing up was beautiful. It was much more peaceful back then. You very seldom seen the police. All areas was well

1:15.1

managed. There was no drugs on the streets back then. Those were care-free times.

1:24.7

Daryl grew up on the south side of Chicago. He was born there in 1951. He talked about

1:29.9

these early memories with my friend Noel King. She's a reporter for the podcast, Planet Money.

1:35.5

How far from where we are right now, did you grow up? A few miles. It's called a woodland area,

1:42.9

and that's around 63rd Street.

1:46.2

Matter of fact, Lou Ross had a song out about 63rd Street.

1:51.9

Can you tell me how the song went? I don't know it.

1:54.5

He talked about, they say this is a big, big city, but I live in the poorest part.

2:00.5

I know I'm on a dead end street

2:02.6

in a city without a heart.

2:09.3

Noel visited Daryl at his home in Chicago earlier this year. She was there to report a story

2:15.0

about police torture and about an attempt by the city of Chicago to make amends for it.

2:21.4

Decades ago, the police tortured Daryl while he was being questioned about a crime.

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