Spotlight: Snitch City
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UPDATE: Case Dismissed
UPDATE: Case Dismissed
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Spotlight: Snitch City brings listeners inside the clandestine world of police informants through the story of one police department. Investigative reporter Dugan Arnett uncovers rampant misconduct and explores how, in a nation addicted to drugs, police have become addicted to informants.
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- UPDATE: Case Dismissed · 22 min · Säsong 1 Avsnitt 6Reporters Dugan Arnett and Andrew Ryan are back in court to learn the fate of a case that has spanned eight years. In 2017, New Bedford police accused Steven Ortiz of being at…
- EPISODE 5: “All this for nothing” · 46 min · Säsong 1 Avsnitt 5Two former New Bedford informants tell shocking stories. The first: a woman who didn’t even know she was being used as an informant by the cop she was sleeping with. The second…
- EPISODE 4: Cops & Robbers · 38 min · Säsong 1 Avsnitt 4When Frank "Rizzo" Simmons was a big-time drug dealer in New Bedford in the '90s, he went toe-to-toe with a drug cop named Paul Oliveira. After a major bust of Frank’s…
- EPISODE 3: The Chief · 34 min · Säsong 1 Avsnitt 3Meet New Bedford’s police chief, Paul Oliveira. He’s had a hand in both of the stories we’ve already heard. And the Spotlight Team's reporting shows there's a dark backstory…
- EPISODE 2: Blind Trust · 41 min · Säsong 1 Avsnitt 2Spotlight reporter Dugan Arnett receives a desperate phone call from an informant who’s now in prison. He says he's afraid for his life because other inmates know he cooperated…
- EPISODE 1: Officer Pastillas · 53 min · Säsong 1 Avsnitt 1On the docks of New Bedford, Massachusetts, whispers about a rogue police officer harassing fishermen and stealing drugs come to a head aboard a scalloping boat late one night…
- Trailer · 2 min · Säsong 1In a nation addicted to drugs, police across the country have become addicted to informants. Nowhere is this more apparent than in one New England port city, where police have…
- Trailer Two · 1 minIn just a few weeks, the Boston Globe’s new podcast will drop. Informants are the nameless, faceless cogs of the criminal justice system. And their use is cloaked in near total…
- Coming Soon… Snitch City · 1 minConfidential informants are the backbone of America’s war on drugs. But the way police use them has remained almost entirely hidden. Until now. Learn more about your ad choices…
