Category: Police-involved killing

QPP 35: Sacramento, Friendly Fire, Murder in Mob Town, and In Defense of Fat Cops

Peter Moskos and Leon Taylor talk about Sacramento, “friendly fire,” the crime that wasn’t, and defend fat cops. Recorded on March 5, 2019. Episode: https://www.spreaker.com/episode/17260598

QPP 32: The Changes Are Upon Us

In this episode, Peter and Nick announce the big change that Nick mentioned a couple of episodes ago: this is Nick’s last episode. Episode: https://www.spreaker.com/episode/15540615 Now, now, it’s not that they had a spat (which is a good thing, since they are now close-by neighbors), but rather that Nick has taken a new job at…
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QPP 31: Interview with Peter’s Mom

For about a year, we’ve tried to bring you interviews with people at the leading edge of law enforcement who speak with us about issues we think are important. It’s been our hope that in doing so, and in discussing issues we think are of keen interest to our listeners. But our listeners are criminal…
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QPP 26: A Continuum of Shootings; Protests in Vermont; Greek Policing

Peter is back from his Grecian Spring Break, so Nick went over to Peter’s house, and the podcast returns after several weeks of guest posts and hosts. Episode: https://www.spreaker.com/episode/14544276 Peter and Nick open with a discussion of several police shootings around the country that have risen to the level of nationally relevant news. The two…
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QPP 22: Gun Trace Task Force

The first Quality Policing Podcast of the new year is up. Peter and Nick begin in (where else?) Baltimore, discussing the trial of detectives Daniel Hersl and Marcus Taylor, from the Baltimore Police Department’s Gun Trace Task Force. The two are accused of a range of criminal activities, including robbing drug dealers, and carrying pellet…
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QPP 18: Justin Fenton on Detective Suiter

Peter Moskos discusses the November 15, 2017, killing of Baltimore City Police Detective Sean Suiter with Baltimore Sun reporter Justin Fenton. Episode: https://www.spreaker.com/episode/13433434 The dispatched audio of the immediate aftermath of the shooting. http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/crime/bs-md-ci-suiter-dispatch-audio-20171122-story.html WBAL’s timeline is wrong regarding time of shooting of Det. Suiter. It did not take 30 minutes to get him to…
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