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Chicano Squad

Whose Stories Get Told

Chicano Squad

Vox Media

Society & Culture, History, Documentary, True Crime

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Forty years after it was founded, the Chicano Squad was almost completely forgotten. In our final episode, a look at how a dedicated few made sure the Squad's legacy would live on, and questions about what we can learn from them today. Take our listener survey here; thanks! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:08.0

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0:31.0

Hey, everyone. Before we get into the story of this episode, I wanted to step back for a second.

0:37.0

If you've been listening to the series, I hope you learned something about Latino history, about racism and policing, and got a window into a point of view you might never have considered before, or even known existed.

0:51.0

That of a group of Latino officers caught between several identities.

0:56.0

We've covered almost 40 years of the lives of these officers, this community they served and the criminals they chased.

1:04.0

At one point, those criminals came from within the squad, so it's been a complicated journey.

1:11.0

It all started with a group of Houston police officers brought into homicide to deal with the very unique set of circumstances.

1:20.0

This is Art Acevedo. When we spoke to him, Acevedo was chief of Houston's police department.

1:25.0

The first Latino police chief the city ever had.

1:29.0

They showed the value of diversity. They showed the strength of diversity.

1:32.0

And they showed that when you're reflective of the community you serve, you get better outcomes.

1:38.0

But you see that diversity can't just be at the officer level, at the technical level.

1:43.0

We began this story, the story of this series with the original sin.

1:48.0

The death of Jose Campos Torres, a Latino army veteran at the hands of white Houston police officers.

1:56.0

And in the wake of that tragedy, massive unrest.

2:00.0

In the face of rising unsolved homicides, affecting a population that police could not communicate with,

2:07.0

and riots over the relationship between HPD and the Latino community, a bold experiment was conceived.

2:16.0

Five young Latino cops became homicide investigators.

2:20.0

The first such police squad in America. The Chicano squad.

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