Behind the Police

How The Police Defeated Lynching Via Torture

Lynching was the sharpest blade in the arsenal of white supremacy for decades, until American police replaced it with the death penalty. In this episode, Prop and Robert trace the evolution of police torture, and how the legacy of 'the third degree' persists in law enforcement to this day. FOOTNOTES: <a href="https://shareok.org/bitstream/handle/11244/4165/7701815.PDF?sequence=1">History of the KKK in Oklahoma</a> <a href="https://pages.uoregon.edu/kimball/1921-Tulsa.race.riot.htm">Tulsa, Oklahoma, Race Riot</a> <a href="https://www.tulsaworld.com/app/race-riot/timeline.html">Tulsa Timeline</a> <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5149/9781469652993_niedermeier#:~:text=Workspace-,The%20Color%20of%20the%20Third%20Degree:%20Racism%2C%20Police%20Torture%2C,the%20American%20South%2C%201930%E2%80%931955&amp;text=Book%20Description:,in%20the%20Jim%20Crow%20South.">The Color of the Third Degree: Racism, Police Torture, and Civil Rights in the American South, 1930–1955</a> <a href="https://theintercept.com/2018/09/25/jon-burge-chicago-police-torture/">ACCUSED TORTURER JON BURGE DIED LAST WEEK, BUT HIS LEGACY OF BRUTAL, RACIST POLICING LIVES ON IN CHICAGO</a> <a href="https://theappeal.org/chicago-police-torture-explained/">CHICAGO POLICE TORTURE: EXPLAINED</a> Learn more about your ad-choices at <a href="https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com">https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com</a>See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.

How did American police get so violent? The answer to that question goes back centuries, to the earliest days of this nation. On this special podcast miniseries hosts Robert Evans and rap artist Propaganda (Jason Petty) draw a straight line from the darkest days of slavery, to the murder of George Floyd and the mass violence American police meted out to their citizens this summer.