Bonus: Introducing Empire City: The Untold Origin Story of the NYPD

Scene on Radio: Capitalism

Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University

Society & Culture, Audiodoc, Radio, Documentary, Stories

4.9 • 11K Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

The police tell us they are here to protect us. But what if their original purpose was something else altogether? Peabody Award-winning host Chenjerai Kumanyika takes listeners on a journey to uncover the hidden history of the largest police force in the world – from its roots in slavery, to rival police gangs battling across the city, to everyday people who resisted every step of the way. As our society debates where policing is going, Empire City: The Untold Origin Story of the NYPD explores where the police came from.

From Wondery, Crooked Media and PushBlack.

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0:00.0	I'm David Remnickin each week on the New Yorker radio hour. My colleagues and I
0:04.8	unpack what's happening in a very complicated world. You'll hear from the New
0:09.2	Yorker's award-winning reporters and thinkers,
0:11.7	Gilani Cobb on race and justice,
0:14.0	Jill Lepore on American history,
0:16.0	Vincent Cunningham and Gia Tolantino on culture,
0:19.0	Bill McKibbon on climate change and many more.
0:22.0	To get the context behind events in the news, climate change and many more.
0:22.5	To get the context behind events in the news,
0:25.3	listen to the New Yorker radio hour,
0:27.5	wherever you get your podcast.
0:30.5	Hey everybody, it's John, coming in here with a bonus episode our season 7
0:36.6	capitalism finale is coming next week but in the meantime a whole lot of seen on radio listeners know and love
0:45.4	Chenjurai Kumenika, my good friend and collaborator, past and maybe future.
0:53.0	Chenierai has a brand new podcast series he's been working on for several years
0:58.0	with a great team at Crooked Media and Push Black and Wondery.
1:02.0	It's a series rich with history and that addresses the
1:06.3	kind of deep systemic social issues we like to traffic in here, so I'll be listening. Hope you will too and to get you going I'm proud to
1:17.2	share with you all episode one of Empire City.
1:21.3	Hey it's Chingarai Kummanika, host of the new limited series Empire City,
1:27.0	the untold origin story of the NYPD.
1:30.0	It's been over a decade since the inception of the Black Lives Matter movement.
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