Behind the Bastards

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>
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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.