Behind the Bastards

The Man Who Teaches Our Cops To Kill

Robert is joined by Jack O'Brien to discuss David Grossman, director of the Killology Research Group. More than a hundred police departments, and thousands of police officers, have taken Grossman’s courses over more than twenty years. FOOTNOTES:
<a href="https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2017/politics/state/kyle-dinkheller-police-video/">THE TRIGGER AND THE CHOICE: PART 1</a>
<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1991/09/17/science/non-verbal-cues-are-easy-to-misinterpret.html">Non-Verbal Cues Are Easy to Misinterpret</a>
<a href="https://www.unicornriot.ninja/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/The-BulletProof-Warrior-Training-Manual-2014.pdf">The Bulletproof Warrior</a>
<a href="https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/02/dave-grossman-training-police-militarization/">“Are You Prepared to Kill Somebody?” A Day With One of America’s Most Popular Police Trainers</a>
<a href="https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/heart/interviews/grossman.html">Grossman Interview</a>
<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2017/02/14/a-day-with-killology-police-trainer-dave-grossman/">A day with ‘killology’ police trainer Dave Grossman</a>
<a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-07-01/the-policeman-s-id">Inside the School Teaching Cops When It’s OK to Kill</a>
<a href="https://www.mensjournal.com/features/lt-dave-grossman-the-self-described-killologist-training-americas-cops-w463304/">Lt. Col. Dave Grossman, the “Killologist” Training America’s Cops</a>
<a href="https://www.cnet.com/news/one-week-playing-violent-video-games-alters-brain-activity/">One week playing violent video games alters brain activity</a>
<a href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/ulterior-motives/201908/the-evidence-video-games-lead-violence-is-weak">The Evidence that Video Games Lead to Violence Is Weak</a>
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There’s a reason the History Channel has produced hundreds of documentaries about Hitler but only a few about Dwight D. Eisenhower. Bad guys (and gals) are eternally fascinating. Behind the Bastards dives in past the Cliffs Notes of the worst humans in history and exposes the bizarre realities of their lives. Listeners will learn about the young adult novels that helped Hitler form his monstrous ideology, the founder of Blackwater’s insane quest to build his own Air Force, the bizarre lives of the sons and daughters of dictators and Saddam Hussein’s side career as a trashy romance novelist.