Hey, it's Chingarah Kumenika, host of the new limited series, Empire City, the untold origin story of the

NYPD. I'm excited to share episode one with you. It's been over a decade since the inception of the Black Lives Matter movement.

Yet time and time again, we see stories of police brutality and corruption in the news

that have fueled the debate on where policing is going and what public safety looks like in America.

But to truly understand where we're headed, first we need to figure out where we began.

From Wondry, crooked media, and pushed black, Empire City takes you on a journey through the complicated and largely

invisible history of policing, from its roots in slavery to rival police gangs battling across the city

to everyday people who resisted every step of the way.

If you love the show as much as I hope you do, you can hear episode 2 right now by following Empire

City on the Wundry app or your favorite podcast platform.

If you can get enough, you can also hear the first four episodes early and add free on Wundry Plus

right now through the Wundry app on Apple Podcasts. The other day I was hanging with my four-year-old daughter in Yola in the playground.

She climbed nine feet into the air on a jungle gym. And then out of nowhere she just jumped into my arms. She

didn't warn me because she knew I was going to catch her. And when I was growing up, I knew

the same thing about my folks.

That even when I went out on a limb, they had my back, and they always would.

So 30 years ago, when I got a phone call telling me that my dad had died,

suddenly the world felt a lot less safe.

I have a lot of pictures of my dad, including one I keep on my desk.

He's standing with his arm around me, looking right at the camera as if to say,

anybody that wants to mess with my son has to go through me.

But sometimes I wish I could unfreeze that image,

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