1 00:00:09,175 --> 00:00:21,688 ♪ ♪ 2 00:00:21,755 --> 00:00:27,594 ♪ ♪ 3 00:00:27,660 --> 00:00:30,897 [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] 4 00:00:30,964 --> 00:00:31,464 >> John: WELCOME, WELCOME, 5 00:00:31,531 --> 00:00:33,032 WELCOME TO "LAST WEEK TONIGHT!" 6 00:00:33,099 --> 00:00:33,666 I'M JOHN OLIVER, THANKS SO MUCH 7 00:00:33,733 --> 00:00:35,235 FOR JOINING US. 8 00:00:35,301 --> 00:00:36,236 IT HAS BEEN A BUSY WEEK. 9 00:00:36,302 --> 00:00:37,771 RUSSIA'S BRIDGE TO CRIMEA WAS 10 00:00:37,837 --> 00:00:38,471 SERIOUSLY DAMAGED, IN YET 11 00:00:38,538 --> 00:00:41,074 ANOTHER SETBACK FOR THEM, 12 00:00:41,141 --> 00:00:42,008 HERSCHEL WALKER ACTED OUT TEN 13 00:00:42,075 --> 00:00:42,675 DIFFERENT EPISODES OF "MAURY," 14 00:00:42,742 --> 00:00:45,678 AND JOE BIDEN GAVE A SPEECH AT A 15 00:00:45,745 --> 00:00:46,246 FACTORY IN MARYLAND, THAT HE 16 00:00:46,312 --> 00:00:48,281 BEGAN LIKE THIS. 17 00:00:48,348 --> 00:00:51,017 >> LET ME START OFF WITH TWO 18 00:00:51,084 --> 00:00:52,619 WORDS: MADE IN AMERICA. 19 00:00:52,685 --> 00:00:53,453 >> John: YEAH, 20 00:00:53,520 --> 00:00:56,589 THAT'S THREE WORDS. 21 00:00:56,656 --> 00:00:57,190 THAT'S THREE WORDS. 22 00:00:57,257 --> 00:00:59,325 YOU JUST OUTBIDEN'ED YOURSELF. 23 00:00:59,392 --> 00:01:00,193 I'M SURPRISED THE REST OF THE 24 00:01:00,260 --> 00:01:01,761 SPEECH DIDN'T GO, "TWO WORDS: 25 00:01:01,828 --> 00:01:02,529 MADE IN AMERICA, FIVE WORDS: 26 00:01:02,595 --> 00:01:03,263 CRUSHED IT. 27 00:01:03,329 --> 00:01:04,998 NINE WORDS: YEP. 28 00:01:05,064 --> 00:01:07,066 FOUR WORDS: YOU BETCHA." 29 00:01:07,133 --> 00:01:09,068 BUT WE'RE GOING TO START IN 30 00:01:09,135 --> 00:01:10,136 IRAN. 31 00:01:10,203 --> 00:01:10,937 THE COUNTRY WHERE PEOPLE HEARD, 32 00:01:11,004 --> 00:01:11,871 "YOU CAN'T POSSIBLY MAKE YOGURT 33 00:01:11,938 --> 00:01:12,839 INTO A SODA," AND WERE LIKE, 34 00:01:12,906 --> 00:01:15,775 "THE FUCK WE CAN'T!" 35 00:01:15,842 --> 00:01:17,076 DON'T KNOCK IT TILL YOU TRY IT. 36 00:01:17,143 --> 00:01:17,811 FOR THE LAST THREE WEEKS, 37 00:01:17,877 --> 00:01:19,179 THERE'VE BEEN HUGE PROTESTS ALL 38 00:01:19,245 --> 00:01:20,146 OVER IRAN, FOLLOWING THE DEATH 39 00:01:20,213 --> 00:01:21,748 OF A YOUNG WOMAN NAMED 40 00:01:21,815 --> 00:01:23,149 MAHSA AMINI AFTER HER ARREST FOR 41 00:01:23,216 --> 00:01:24,784 VIOLATING MANDATORY HIJAB RULES 42 00:01:24,851 --> 00:01:25,885 BY IRAN'S SO-CALLED "MORALITY 43 00:01:25,952 --> 00:01:26,586 POLICE." 44 00:01:26,653 --> 00:01:28,288 AND I KNOW "MORALITY POLICE" 45 00:01:28,354 --> 00:01:29,722 SOUNDS LIKE A FAKE NAME 46 00:01:29,789 --> 00:01:30,957 TUCKER CARLSON MADE UP FOR 47 00:01:31,024 --> 00:01:32,358 PEOPLE WHO WON'T LET HIM SAY 48 00:01:32,425 --> 00:01:34,828 SLURS ANYMORE, BUT IT'S A VERY 49 00:01:34,894 --> 00:01:37,063 REAL ORGANIZATION THAT ENFORCES 50 00:01:37,130 --> 00:01:38,665 DRESS AND BEHAVIOR RULES, WHICH 51 00:01:38,731 --> 00:01:40,900 HAS BEEN NEWLY ENERGIZED UNDER A 52 00:01:40,967 --> 00:01:41,701 HARD-LINE NEW PRESIDENT WHO TOOK 53 00:01:41,768 --> 00:01:43,203 OFFICE LAST YEAR. 54 00:01:43,269 --> 00:01:45,238 FOR A WHILE NOW, THERE'S BEEN 55 00:01:45,305 --> 00:01:46,139 WIDESPREAD DISCONTENT IN IRAN 56 00:01:46,206 --> 00:01:46,739 OVER REPRESSION, CORRUPTION, 57 00:01:46,806 --> 00:01:48,274 INFLATION, AND ECONOMIC PAIN 58 00:01:48,341 --> 00:01:49,642 CAUSED IN PART BY U.S. 59 00:01:49,709 --> 00:01:57,951 SANCTIONS. 60 00:01:58,017 --> 00:01:58,585 BUT THE DEATH OF MAHSA AMINI'S 61 00:01:58,651 --> 00:02:00,186 HAS UNLEASHED A TORRENT OF FURY, 62 00:02:00,253 --> 00:02:00,820 LED BY ONE GROUP IN PARTICULAR. 63 00:02:00,887 --> 00:02:01,454 >> SCHOOLGIRLS HAVE NOW JOINED 64 00:02:01,521 --> 00:02:02,021 ANTI-GOVERNMENT PROTESTS IN 65 00:02:02,088 --> 00:02:02,222 IRAN. 66 00:02:02,288 --> 00:02:02,856 HERE IN CAPITAL TEHRAN, THEY'RE 67 00:02:02,922 --> 00:02:03,623 MARCHING IN THE STREETS, 68 00:02:03,690 --> 00:02:04,657 CHANTING "DEATH TO THE 69 00:02:04,724 --> 00:02:08,228 DICTATOR." 70 00:02:08,294 --> 00:02:09,996 THE BIGGEST THREAT FOR MORE THAN 71 00:02:10,063 --> 00:02:12,899 A DECADE TO IRAN'S RADICAL 72 00:02:12,966 --> 00:02:13,933 ISLAMIC LEADERSHIP ARE NOW 73 00:02:14,000 --> 00:02:15,602 TEENAGERS. 74 00:02:15,668 --> 00:02:16,803 >> John: IT'S TRUE. 75 00:02:16,870 --> 00:02:18,238 TEENAGERS ARE THE SCARIEST THING 76 00:02:18,304 --> 00:02:20,206 TO THE IRANIAN GOVERNMENT. 77 00:02:20,273 --> 00:02:22,408 WHICH HONESTLY FEELS RIGHT. 78 00:02:22,475 --> 00:02:24,310 TEENAGERS ARE TERRIFYING. 79 00:02:24,377 --> 00:02:26,179 THE LIST OF GROUPS I NEVER WANT 80 00:02:26,246 --> 00:02:28,081 MAD AT ME GOES, IN ASCENDING 81 00:02:28,147 --> 00:02:28,748 ORDER, THE MAFIA, THE MAFIA FROM 82 00:02:28,815 --> 00:02:30,683 FIFTY YEARS AGO, JASON MOMOA, 83 00:02:30,750 --> 00:02:32,318 WHICH IS LESS ABOUT HIM BEING 84 00:02:32,385 --> 00:02:33,119 PHYSICALLY IMPOSING AND MORE 85 00:02:33,186 --> 00:02:35,054 ABOUT ME CRAVING HIS APPROVAL, 86 00:02:35,121 --> 00:02:37,223 ROBOTS, SPIDERS AFTER THEY ALL 87 00:02:37,290 --> 00:02:38,057 LEARN TO WORK TOGETHER, AND 88 00:02:38,124 --> 00:02:38,758 THEN, RIGHT AT THE TOP: 89 00:02:38,825 --> 00:02:41,261 TEENAGE GIRLS. 90 00:02:41,327 --> 00:02:42,495 AND THE YOUNG WOMEN AT THE 91 00:02:42,562 --> 00:02:43,696 FOREFRONT OF THESE PROTESTS HAVE 92 00:02:43,763 --> 00:02:45,098 BEEN MAKING IT VERY CLEAR THAT 93 00:02:45,164 --> 00:02:46,799 THEY'RE NOT AFRAID TO STAND UP 94 00:02:46,866 --> 00:02:47,433 TO THE MORALITY POLICE, OR, 95 00:02:47,500 --> 00:02:50,937 INDEED, ANYBODY. 96 00:02:51,004 --> 00:02:52,372 >> THIS VIDEO SHOWS FEMALE 97 00:02:52,438 --> 00:02:55,542 STUDENTS IN SHIRAZ, SHOUTING 98 00:02:55,608 --> 00:02:58,611 "BASIJIS GET LOST" TO A MEMBER 99 00:02:58,678 --> 00:03:00,213 OF THE FEARED BASIJI 100 00:03:00,280 --> 00:03:01,581 PARAMILITARY FORCE WHO HAD BEEN 101 00:03:01,648 --> 00:03:02,982 INVITED TO GIVE A SPEECH. 102 00:03:03,049 --> 00:03:05,151 AND IN THIS VIDEO, FILMED NEAR 103 00:03:05,218 --> 00:03:06,386 THE CAPITAL TEHRAN, IRANIAN 104 00:03:06,452 --> 00:03:08,221 SCHOOLGIRLS, MANY WITHOUT THEIR 105 00:03:08,288 --> 00:03:09,622 HEADS COVERED, THROW OBJECTS AT 106 00:03:09,689 --> 00:03:11,257 A MAN AND CHASE HIM AWAY. 107 00:03:11,324 --> 00:03:12,825 >> John: HOLY SHIT! 108 00:03:12,892 --> 00:03:14,160 THE BRAVERY OF THOSE GIRLS IS 109 00:03:14,227 --> 00:03:16,596 GENUINELY INCREDIBLE. 110 00:03:16,663 --> 00:03:17,997 I PRESUME THE SCHOOL THEY ATTEND 111 00:03:18,064 --> 00:03:20,333 IS "THE FUCK AROUND AND FIND OUT 112 00:03:20,400 --> 00:03:22,101 ACADEMY FOR GIRLS." 113 00:03:22,168 --> 00:03:22,669 AND IF THAT'S NOT WHAT IT'S 114 00:03:22,735 --> 00:03:23,269 CALLED, IT SHOULD BE FROM NOW 115 00:03:23,336 --> 00:03:24,404 ON. 116 00:03:24,470 --> 00:03:25,939 THESE PROTESTS ARE TAKING MANY 117 00:03:26,005 --> 00:03:28,341 FORMS, AND RAPIDLY SPREADING 118 00:03:28,408 --> 00:03:29,309 ONLINE WHEN IRANIAN WOMEN WERE 119 00:03:29,375 --> 00:03:30,443 FILMED CUTTING THEIR HAIR IN 120 00:03:30,510 --> 00:03:31,544 PROTEST, WOMEN AROUND THE WORLD 121 00:03:31,611 --> 00:03:32,078 STARTED DOING THE SAME IN 122 00:03:32,145 --> 00:03:33,413 SOLIDARITY. 123 00:03:33,479 --> 00:03:35,582 WHICH IS INCREDIBLY INSPIRING. 124 00:03:35,648 --> 00:03:37,150 ALTHOUGH I WILL SAY, IT'S A 125 00:03:37,216 --> 00:03:38,184 LITTLE HURTFUL THAT WHEN IRANIAN 126 00:03:38,251 --> 00:03:39,786 WOMEN CUT THEIR OWN HAIR, 127 00:03:39,852 --> 00:03:41,588 EVERYONE SUPPORTS THEM, BUT WHEN 128 00:03:41,654 --> 00:03:42,922 I CUT MY OWN HAIR, EVERYONE SAYS 129 00:03:42,989 --> 00:03:44,190 I LOOK LIKE AMELIE FELL 130 00:03:44,257 --> 00:03:44,724 HEAD-FIRST INTO A GARBAGE 131 00:03:44,791 --> 00:03:47,927 DISPOSAL. 132 00:03:47,994 --> 00:03:48,895 THEY WEREN'T WRONG ABOUT THAT -- 133 00:03:48,962 --> 00:03:49,529 I'M JUST SAYING, IT'S A DOUBLE 134 00:03:49,596 --> 00:03:50,330 STANDARD. 135 00:03:50,396 --> 00:03:51,898 UNSURPRISINGLY, THE GOVERNMENT 136 00:03:51,965 --> 00:03:53,099 IS NOW VIOLENTLY CRACKING DOWN, 137 00:03:53,166 --> 00:03:54,467 KILLING OVER 100 PROTESTORS AND 138 00:03:54,534 --> 00:03:57,170 BYSTANDERS. 139 00:03:57,236 --> 00:03:59,205 AND AYATOLLAH KHAMEINI HAS 140 00:03:59,272 --> 00:04:00,139 RESORTED TO CLAIMING AMERICA'S 141 00:04:00,206 --> 00:04:00,907 BEHIND THESE PROTESTS, AND HAS 142 00:04:00,974 --> 00:04:03,343 BEEN SECRETLY INSTIGATING THEM. 143 00:04:03,409 --> 00:04:04,444 AND LOOK, IT'S NOT LIKE AMERICA 144 00:04:04,510 --> 00:04:06,145 HASN'T MEDDLED IN IRAN'S AFFAIRS 145 00:04:06,212 --> 00:04:08,514 IN THE PAST, BUT IN THIS 146 00:04:08,581 --> 00:04:09,716 INSTANCE, THE PROTESTORS SEEM 147 00:04:09,782 --> 00:04:13,152 VERY CLEAR ABOUT WHO THEY'RE MAD 148 00:04:13,219 --> 00:04:13,920 AT, AND IT IS HIM. 149 00:04:13,987 --> 00:04:14,687 >> THESE YOUNG GIRLS NO LONGER 150 00:04:14,754 --> 00:04:15,655 WANT TO SEE HIS FACE IN THEIR 151 00:04:15,722 --> 00:04:17,357 CLASSROOMS. 152 00:04:17,423 --> 00:04:20,560 INSTEAD, THEY WROTE THEIR DREAMS 153 00:04:20,627 --> 00:04:22,295 BEHIND HIS FRAMED PICTURE, 154 00:04:22,362 --> 00:04:24,330 EQUALITY AND FREEDOM, TO TURN 155 00:04:24,397 --> 00:04:28,201 THIS PAGE OF IRAN'S HISTORY. 156 00:04:28,267 --> 00:04:28,835 >> John: THAT IS EXTREMELY 157 00:04:28,901 --> 00:04:29,202 POWERFUL TO SEE. 158 00:04:29,268 --> 00:04:30,036 AND FRANKLY, I DON'T BLAME THOSE 159 00:04:30,103 --> 00:04:31,204 GIRLS FOR NOT WANTING TO SEE 160 00:04:31,270 --> 00:04:33,039 THAT PARTICULAR FACE EVERY DAY, 161 00:04:33,106 --> 00:04:34,307 EVEN IF HE WASN'T THE SYMBOL OF 162 00:04:34,374 --> 00:04:35,341 OPPRESSION AND TYRANNY. 163 00:04:35,408 --> 00:04:37,410 IT LOOKS LIKE RIGHT BEFORE THAT 164 00:04:37,477 --> 00:04:37,877 PICTURE WAS TAKEN, THE 165 00:04:37,944 --> 00:04:39,379 PHOTOGRAPHER SAID, "READY? 166 00:04:39,445 --> 00:04:40,480 THREE, TWO, ONE, WHEN A PANDA 167 00:04:40,546 --> 00:04:41,848 HAS TWINS, IT KEEPS THE STRONGER 168 00:04:41,914 --> 00:04:42,415 ONE AND ABANDONS THE OTHER. 169 00:04:42,482 --> 00:04:43,650 SAY CHEESE!" 170 00:04:43,716 --> 00:04:45,184 PERFECT! 171 00:04:45,251 --> 00:04:46,219 AS FOR WHAT HAPPENS NEXT, IT'S 172 00:04:46,285 --> 00:04:47,420 HARD TO SAY. 173 00:04:47,487 --> 00:04:48,421 THERE HAVE BEEN CIVILIAN 174 00:04:48,488 --> 00:04:49,989 UPRISINGS IN IRAN BEFORE THAT 175 00:04:50,056 --> 00:04:52,125 THE GOVERNMENT SNUFFED OUT, LIKE 176 00:04:52,191 --> 00:04:53,760 THE GREEN MOVEMENT IN 2009. 177 00:04:53,826 --> 00:04:54,794 AND THAT COULD WELL HAPPEN AGAIN 178 00:04:54,861 --> 00:04:55,895 HERE. 179 00:04:55,962 --> 00:04:57,797 BUT AS SOME IRANIANS HAVE SAID, 180 00:04:57,864 --> 00:04:58,398 THIS TIME DOES FEEL A LITTLE 181 00:04:58,464 --> 00:04:59,132 DIFFERENT. 182 00:04:59,198 --> 00:05:00,833 THE PRIMARY DRIVERS OF THESE 183 00:05:00,900 --> 00:05:02,769 PROTESTS ARE YOUNG, DEFIANT, AND 184 00:05:02,835 --> 00:05:04,537 FED UP WITH THE STATUS QUO. 185 00:05:04,604 --> 00:05:05,538 AND THEY DESERVE OUR SUSTAINED 186 00:05:05,605 --> 00:05:06,706 ATTENTION. 187 00:05:06,773 --> 00:05:08,141 BECAUSE, TO THE YOUNG PEOPLE OF 188 00:05:08,207 --> 00:05:09,375 IRAN, LET ME SAY THIS. 189 00:05:09,442 --> 00:05:11,110 IF I MAY BORROW SOME PHRASING 190 00:05:11,177 --> 00:05:12,445 FROM JOE BIDEN, I HAVE 191 00:05:12,512 --> 00:05:16,949 TWO WORDS FOR YOU: YOU ARE 192 00:05:17,016 --> 00:05:17,750 ALL ABSOLUTELY FUCKING AMAZING. 193 00:05:17,817 --> 00:05:19,952 AND NOW THIS. 194 00:05:20,019 --> 00:05:22,989 >> AND NOW, CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS 195 00:05:23,056 --> 00:05:28,394 KIND OF COOL GUY. 196 00:05:28,461 --> 00:05:30,930 >> COMING UP, AM I THE ONLY GUY 197 00:05:30,997 --> 00:05:31,731 WHO THINKS CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS 198 00:05:31,798 --> 00:05:34,000 WAS REALLY KIND OF A COOL GUY? 199 00:05:34,067 --> 00:05:36,436 HE DISCOVERED OUR HEMISPHERE, HE 200 00:05:36,502 --> 00:05:38,971 WRIST LIFE AND LIMB TO DO IT, I 201 00:05:39,038 --> 00:05:39,806 KNOW EVERYBODY'S BEATING UP ON 202 00:05:39,872 --> 00:05:40,239 HIM? 203 00:05:40,306 --> 00:05:42,275 I THINK THAT'S VERY UNFAIR AND 204 00:05:42,341 --> 00:05:43,309 HE'S NOT AROUND TO DEFEND 205 00:05:43,376 --> 00:05:43,609 HIMSELF. 206 00:05:43,676 --> 00:05:44,143 >> I'M NOT SAYING CUSTOMER 207 00:05:44,210 --> 00:05:44,944 COLUMBUS WAS AN ANGEL OR THAT HE 208 00:05:45,011 --> 00:05:46,245 WAS A PERFECT INDIVIDUAL, BUT HE 209 00:05:46,312 --> 00:05:46,779 OBVIOUSLY HAD SOME MAJOR 210 00:05:46,846 --> 00:05:51,350 ACCOMPLISHMENTS. 211 00:05:51,417 --> 00:05:53,319 >> WE NEED TO JUDGE HIM BY THE 212 00:05:53,386 --> 00:05:54,620 STANDARDS OF HIS OWN TIME AND 213 00:05:54,687 --> 00:05:55,121 NOT OURS. 214 00:05:55,188 --> 00:05:57,423 BY THE WAY, BY THOSE STANDARDS, 215 00:05:57,490 --> 00:05:58,024 CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS WAS A 216 00:05:58,091 --> 00:05:58,558 PRETTY GOOD GUY. 217 00:05:58,624 --> 00:05:59,158 >> WE ARE FLAWED, IS COLUMBUS 218 00:05:59,225 --> 00:05:59,592 FLAWED? 219 00:05:59,659 --> 00:06:00,927 WAS HE FLAWED? 220 00:06:00,993 --> 00:06:01,394 WAS HE FLAWED? 221 00:06:01,461 --> 00:06:02,562 WE TALKED ABOUT THIS BEFORE ON 222 00:06:02,628 --> 00:06:02,962 YOUR SHOW. 223 00:06:03,029 --> 00:06:07,800 OF COURSE HE WAS FLAWED. 224 00:06:07,867 --> 00:06:08,101 WE ALL ARE. 225 00:06:08,167 --> 00:06:08,735 WHO ARE WE TO JUDGE FOR BETTER 226 00:06:08,801 --> 00:06:09,302 OR FOR WORSE? 227 00:06:09,368 --> 00:06:10,169 >> COLUMBUS WAS AN EPIC FIGURE 228 00:06:10,236 --> 00:06:14,607 IN HUMAN HISTORY. 229 00:06:14,674 --> 00:06:17,610 >> THAT DEBATE CONTINUES. 230 00:06:17,677 --> 00:06:20,279 >> HE ALSO BROUGHT BACK TO 231 00:06:20,346 --> 00:06:27,620 EUROPE SOMETHING YOU MIGHT NOT 232 00:06:27,687 --> 00:06:28,755 BE AWARE OF WHICH IS POTATOES. 233 00:06:28,821 --> 00:06:29,188 >> John: MOVING ON. 234 00:06:29,255 --> 00:06:29,822 OUR MAIN STORY TONIGHT CONCERNS 235 00:06:29,889 --> 00:06:30,690 CRIME -- Y'KNOW: MCGRUFF'S KINK. 236 00:06:30,757 --> 00:06:31,290 IT'S GENUINELY IMPRESSIVE THIS 237 00:06:31,357 --> 00:06:31,791 CRIME DOG TAUGHT A WHOLE 238 00:06:31,858 --> 00:06:33,292 GENERATION HOW TO BE NARCS WHILE 239 00:06:33,359 --> 00:06:34,393 SIMULTANEOUSLY DRESSING LIKE 240 00:06:34,460 --> 00:06:34,994 HE'S ABOUT TO JERK IT IN THE 241 00:06:35,061 --> 00:06:36,662 BACK OF A MOVIE THEATER. 242 00:06:36,729 --> 00:06:37,396 SPECIFICALLY, WE'RE GOING TO 243 00:06:37,463 --> 00:06:38,030 TALK ABOUT HOW CRIME IS COVERED 244 00:06:38,097 --> 00:06:41,667 BY THE NEWS. 245 00:06:41,734 --> 00:06:42,335 BECAUSE THE NEWS LOVES COVERING 246 00:06:42,401 --> 00:06:44,137 CRIME -- SOMETIMES SERIOUSLY, 247 00:06:44,203 --> 00:06:49,342 AND SOMETIMES LIKE THIS. 248 00:06:49,408 --> 00:06:49,876 >> LET'S GET THIS STRAIGHT 249 00:06:49,942 --> 00:06:50,543 FROM THE START: YOU'RE 250 00:06:50,610 --> 00:06:51,043 NEDRA BRANTLEY, RIGHT? 251 00:06:51,110 --> 00:06:51,677 >> I AM. 252 00:06:51,744 --> 00:06:52,779 >> IS YOUR NAME MIKE? 253 00:06:52,845 --> 00:06:54,113 >> NO, IT'S NOT. 254 00:06:54,180 --> 00:06:55,414 >> THIS IS WHAT NEDRA'S CAR 255 00:06:55,481 --> 00:06:58,684 LOOKED LIKE TODAY. 256 00:06:58,751 --> 00:06:59,552 "MIKE IS A CHEATER" SPRAY 257 00:06:59,619 --> 00:07:01,354 PAINTED ALL OVER IT. 258 00:07:01,420 --> 00:07:01,921 CHEATER, CHEATER, MIKE IS A 259 00:07:01,988 --> 00:07:03,923 CHEATER. 260 00:07:03,990 --> 00:07:06,893 MIKE, MIKE, MIKE, MIKE, MIKE, 261 00:07:06,959 --> 00:07:07,960 MIKE, MIKE, SEE WHAT YOU'VE 262 00:07:08,027 --> 00:07:08,928 DONE? 263 00:07:08,995 --> 00:07:10,163 I DON'T KNOW WHO YOU ARE. 264 00:07:10,229 --> 00:07:11,964 I DON'T KNOW WHERE YOU ARE. 265 00:07:12,031 --> 00:07:17,370 BUT YOU MAY WANT TO START 266 00:07:17,436 --> 00:07:18,271 CHANGING YOUR WAYS -- OR 267 00:07:18,337 --> 00:07:19,806 CHANGING YOUR NAME. 268 00:07:19,872 --> 00:07:20,807 >> John: YES. 269 00:07:20,873 --> 00:07:23,009 I WANT THAT MAN ON MY TV ALL DAY 270 00:07:23,075 --> 00:07:24,577 EVERY DAY. 271 00:07:24,644 --> 00:07:26,279 IN FACT, IF YOU SENT NBC4 272 00:07:26,345 --> 00:07:32,218 WASHINGTON'S PAT COLLINS TO 273 00:07:32,285 --> 00:07:33,986 UKRAINE, I'D GUARANTEE IT'D BE 274 00:07:34,053 --> 00:07:34,587 SORTED OUT TOMORROW. 275 00:07:34,654 --> 00:07:35,254 "VLAD VLAD VLAD VLAD VLAD -- SEE 276 00:07:35,321 --> 00:07:35,688 WHAT YOU'VE DONE?!" 277 00:07:35,755 --> 00:07:36,322 YOU'VE UNDOUBTEDLY NOTICED THAT 278 00:07:36,389 --> 00:07:38,758 CRIME MAKES UP A SIGNIFICANT 279 00:07:38,825 --> 00:07:39,292 PART OF YOUR LOCAL NEWS'S 280 00:07:39,358 --> 00:07:40,026 PROGRAMMING. 281 00:07:40,092 --> 00:07:43,095 BUT THE SCALE OF THAT COVERAGE 282 00:07:43,162 --> 00:07:43,796 HAS A REAL IMPACT. 283 00:07:43,863 --> 00:07:44,897 RESEARCH HAS SHOWN THAT VIEWING 284 00:07:44,964 --> 00:07:46,165 LOCAL TV NEWS IS RELATED TO 285 00:07:46,232 --> 00:07:46,833 INCREASED FEAR OF, AND CONCERN 286 00:07:46,899 --> 00:07:49,435 ABOUT CRIME, AND THAT TV NEWS 287 00:07:49,502 --> 00:07:50,770 VIEWERS ARE ALSO MORE LIKELY TO 288 00:07:50,837 --> 00:07:53,439 SUPPORT TOUGHER CRIME POLICIES. 289 00:07:53,506 --> 00:07:54,841 WHICH DOES HELP EXPLAIN WHY OUR 290 00:07:54,907 --> 00:07:57,844 PERCEPTIONS OF CRIME CAN BE 291 00:07:57,910 --> 00:07:58,611 SHARPLY AT ODDS WITH THE REALITY 292 00:07:58,678 --> 00:08:00,012 OF IT. 293 00:08:00,079 --> 00:08:01,013 FOR OVER THIRTY YEARS, GALLUP 294 00:08:01,080 --> 00:08:02,181 HAS ASKED AMERICANS WHETHER THEY 295 00:08:02,248 --> 00:08:04,317 THINK THE U.S. HAS MORE OR LESS 296 00:08:04,383 --> 00:08:16,028 CRIME COMPARED TO THE YEAR 297 00:08:16,095 --> 00:08:17,029 BEFORE, AND IN 298 00:08:17,096 --> 00:08:17,530 IN EVERY YEAR BUT ONE, 299 00:08:17,597 --> 00:08:18,130 EVEN AS THE ACTUAL CRIME RATE 300 00:08:18,197 --> 00:08:18,464 HAS PLUMMETED. 301 00:08:18,531 --> 00:08:19,065 INTERESTINGLY, THE ONE YEAR A 302 00:08:19,131 --> 00:08:19,665 MAJORITY SAID "LESS" WAS 2001. 303 00:08:19,732 --> 00:08:20,333 FAMOUSLY A YEAR WHERE EVERYTHING 304 00:08:20,399 --> 00:08:21,334 WAS SUPER CHILL, NO DRAMA, JUST 305 00:08:21,400 --> 00:08:24,103 VIBES. 306 00:08:24,170 --> 00:08:26,005 TV NEWS LEANS HARD ON "THIS 307 00:08:26,072 --> 00:08:28,507 COULD HAPPEN TO YOU" CRIME 308 00:08:28,574 --> 00:08:30,743 STORIES, WHICH ARE DESIGNED TO 309 00:08:30,810 --> 00:08:31,344 PULL YOU IN -- WITH THE LATEST 310 00:08:31,410 --> 00:08:32,245 VERSION BEING THIS. 311 00:08:32,311 --> 00:08:33,713 >> AUTHORITIES CONTINUE TO SOUND 312 00:08:33,779 --> 00:08:35,014 THE ALARM ABOUT THE DANGERS OF 313 00:08:35,081 --> 00:08:36,115 RAINBOW FENTANYL. 314 00:08:36,182 --> 00:08:37,850 >> ANOTHER WARNING ABOUT RAINBOW 315 00:08:37,917 --> 00:08:39,552 FENTANYL -- THE DEADLY DRUG 316 00:08:39,619 --> 00:08:40,586 DISGUISED AS CANDY! 317 00:08:40,653 --> 00:08:41,487 >> IT IS CALLED RAINBOW 318 00:08:41,554 --> 00:08:43,055 FENTANYL. 319 00:08:43,122 --> 00:08:45,057 THE COLORFUL CANDY-LIKE 320 00:08:45,124 --> 00:08:46,459 APPEARANCE IS ACTUALLY DESIGNED 321 00:08:46,525 --> 00:08:47,727 TO APPEAL TO YOUNG KIDS. 322 00:08:47,793 --> 00:08:48,928 >> THEY'RE ATTRACTIVE, THEY'RE 323 00:08:48,995 --> 00:08:50,363 COLORFUL, THEY LOOK LIKE CANDY. 324 00:08:50,429 --> 00:08:52,098 >> THIS IS EVERY PARENT'S WORST 325 00:08:52,164 --> 00:08:53,933 NIGHTMARE. 326 00:08:54,000 --> 00:08:56,068 ESPECIALLY IN THE MONTH OF 327 00:08:56,135 --> 00:08:57,136 OCTOBER, AS HALLOWEEN FAST 328 00:08:57,203 --> 00:08:58,838 APPROACHES. 329 00:08:58,905 --> 00:09:00,439 THIS IS TREACHEROUS DECEPTION TO 330 00:09:00,506 --> 00:09:03,542 MARKET RAINBOW FENTANYL LIKE 331 00:09:03,609 --> 00:09:04,911 CANDY. 332 00:09:04,977 --> 00:09:06,279 >> John: OKAY SO, FIRST, RAINBOW 333 00:09:06,345 --> 00:09:07,880 FENTANYL SOUNDS LIKE THE TITLE 334 00:09:07,947 --> 00:09:09,916 OF A VERY SPECIAL EPISODE OF 335 00:09:09,982 --> 00:09:11,384 "MY LITTLE PONY." 336 00:09:11,450 --> 00:09:12,385 BUT SECOND, WHILE THE IDEA OF IT 337 00:09:12,451 --> 00:09:16,555 BEING MADE TO TARGET KIDS SOUNDS 338 00:09:16,622 --> 00:09:17,890 SCARY, EXPERTS ON NARCOTICS HAVE 339 00:09:17,957 --> 00:09:19,158 POINTED OUT: THOSE PILLS ARE 340 00:09:19,225 --> 00:09:20,660 ALMOST CERTAINLY COLORED JUST TO 341 00:09:20,726 --> 00:09:22,261 DIFFERENTIATE PRODUCTS, AND IT 342 00:09:22,328 --> 00:09:23,663 HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH MARKETING 343 00:09:23,729 --> 00:09:24,397 TO KIDS AT ALL, PERIOD, 344 00:09:24,463 --> 00:09:27,833 WHATSOEVER. 345 00:09:27,900 --> 00:09:29,502 WHICH DOES MAKES SENSE, BECAUSE 346 00:09:29,568 --> 00:09:33,806 KIDS -- AND THIS IS TRUE -- 347 00:09:33,873 --> 00:09:34,407 NOT AN IDEAL CUSTOMER BASE FOR 348 00:09:34,473 --> 00:09:34,907 EXPENSIVE STREET DRUGS. 349 00:09:34,974 --> 00:09:35,474 BECAUSE EVEN IF DEALERS WERE 350 00:09:35,541 --> 00:09:37,176 TARGETING TRICK-OR-TREATERS WITH 351 00:09:37,243 --> 00:09:38,878 A "FIRST ONE'S ON THE HOUSE" 352 00:09:38,945 --> 00:09:40,346 STRATEGY, WHERE DO YOU EXPECT 353 00:09:40,413 --> 00:09:42,114 LITTLE ZEKE TO COME UP WITH THE 354 00:09:42,181 --> 00:09:42,581 CASH FOR THE NEXT ONE? 355 00:09:42,648 --> 00:09:43,716 SURE, HE'S GOT HIS WEEKLY 356 00:09:43,783 --> 00:09:44,717 ALLOWANCE, BUT HE SMACKED HIS 357 00:09:44,784 --> 00:09:45,384 BROTHER YESTERDAY, SO THAT'S 358 00:09:45,451 --> 00:09:46,986 THAT DOLLAR GONE. 359 00:09:47,053 --> 00:09:48,287 AND THE REST OF HIS NET WORTH IS 360 00:09:48,354 --> 00:09:49,021 TIED UP IN LEGO STORE GIFT 361 00:09:49,088 --> 00:09:50,122 CARDS. 362 00:09:50,189 --> 00:09:51,657 HE'S USELESS TO DEALERS. 363 00:09:51,724 --> 00:09:53,059 MAYBE CHECK BACK IN TEN YEARS 364 00:09:53,125 --> 00:09:53,826 WHEN HE GETS PRESCRIBED OXY 365 00:09:53,893 --> 00:09:55,127 AFTER A LACROSSE INJURY. 366 00:09:55,194 --> 00:09:58,097 AND LOOK, THAT'S NOT TO SAY THAT 367 00:09:58,164 --> 00:09:59,198 OPIOID ADDICTION AMONG YOUNG 368 00:09:59,265 --> 00:10:00,499 PEOPLE ISN'T A REAL ISSUE -- IT 369 00:10:00,566 --> 00:10:01,867 OBVIOUSLY IS. 370 00:10:01,934 --> 00:10:03,402 BUT IT DOESN'T HELP THE 371 00:10:03,469 --> 00:10:04,537 CONVERSATION AROUND THAT ISSUE, 372 00:10:04,603 --> 00:10:06,072 TO HAVE NEWSCASTERS JUMPING ON 373 00:10:06,138 --> 00:10:07,506 SPLASHY "YOUR KID'S HALLOWEEN 374 00:10:07,573 --> 00:10:09,375 CANDY COULD BE FENTANYL" STORIES 375 00:10:09,442 --> 00:10:11,010 THAT EVEN IN THIS REPORT, THEY 376 00:10:11,077 --> 00:10:11,744 HALF-ACKNOWLEDGE IS BULLSHIT, 377 00:10:11,811 --> 00:10:12,945 RIGHT AT THE VERY END. 378 00:10:13,012 --> 00:10:14,780 >> POLICE DEPARTMENTS ARE 379 00:10:14,847 --> 00:10:16,115 WARNING PARENTS TO CHECK THE 380 00:10:16,182 --> 00:10:16,949 CANDY THEIR KIDS BRING HOME FROM 381 00:10:17,016 --> 00:10:18,150 TRICK OR TREATING. 382 00:10:18,217 --> 00:10:20,386 >> WE DON'T WANT TO HAVE KIDS 383 00:10:20,453 --> 00:10:21,954 WHO ARE TAKING PILLS THAT THEY 384 00:10:22,021 --> 00:10:22,521 THINK IS CANDY AND IS REALLY 385 00:10:22,588 --> 00:10:24,457 NOT. 386 00:10:24,523 --> 00:10:25,558 >> THERE HAVE BEEN NO INSTANCES 387 00:10:25,624 --> 00:10:26,993 OF THAT HAPPENING. 388 00:10:27,059 --> 00:10:29,095 >> John: YEAH, OF COURSE NOT. 389 00:10:29,161 --> 00:10:30,463 I'M SO GLAD YOU TACKED THAT 390 00:10:30,529 --> 00:10:32,531 DISCLAIMER ON AT THE END THERE. 391 00:10:32,598 --> 00:10:33,699 I'M SURE THE THREE SECOND DEBUNK 392 00:10:33,766 --> 00:10:34,834 READ OVER THE STATION LOGO IS 393 00:10:34,900 --> 00:10:37,403 EXACTLY WHAT EVERYONE'S GOING TO 394 00:10:37,470 --> 00:10:38,404 TAKE AWAY FROM THAT REPORT, AND 395 00:10:38,471 --> 00:10:38,971 DEFINITELY NOT THE IMAGES OF 396 00:10:39,038 --> 00:10:39,939 LITTLE HULKS STICKING THEIR 397 00:10:40,006 --> 00:10:41,240 HANDS INTO BOWLS OF 398 00:10:41,307 --> 00:10:43,709 SKITTLE-SHAPED SMACK. 399 00:10:43,776 --> 00:10:45,778 BUT THAT INSTINCT TO RUN AN 400 00:10:45,845 --> 00:10:47,513 EYE-CATCHING CRIME STORY WITHOUT 401 00:10:47,580 --> 00:10:48,948 BEING SKEPTICAL OF ITS SOURCING 402 00:10:49,015 --> 00:10:49,515 IS UNFORTUNATELY INCREDIBLY 403 00:10:49,582 --> 00:10:50,216 COMMON. 404 00:10:50,282 --> 00:10:51,984 SO GIVEN THAT, TONIGHT, LET'S 405 00:10:52,051 --> 00:10:53,853 TALK ABOUT CRIME REPORTING -- 406 00:10:53,919 --> 00:10:54,887 SPECIFICALLY, THE INCENTIVES 407 00:10:54,954 --> 00:10:56,355 DRIVING THE OUTLETS THAT COVER 408 00:10:56,422 --> 00:10:57,423 CRIME, THE FLAWED SOURCES THEY 409 00:10:57,490 --> 00:10:58,924 RELY UPON, AND THE GREATER HARM 410 00:10:58,991 --> 00:11:00,659 IT CAN DO TO ALL OF US. 411 00:11:00,726 --> 00:11:05,531 AND LET'S START WITH THE OBVIOUS 412 00:11:05,598 --> 00:11:06,165 HERE -- CRIME HAS ALWAYS DRIVEN 413 00:11:06,232 --> 00:11:06,399 RATINGS. 414 00:11:06,465 --> 00:11:06,999 THE MANTRA "IF IT BLEEDS, IT 415 00:11:07,066 --> 00:11:07,533 LEADS" HAS BEEN AROUND FOR 416 00:11:07,600 --> 00:11:07,967 DECADES. 417 00:11:08,034 --> 00:11:10,036 BUT THE PHILOSOPHY REALLY TOOK 418 00:11:10,102 --> 00:11:11,370 HOLD AROUND THE 1970S, WHEN TWO 419 00:11:11,437 --> 00:11:13,072 LOCAL STATIONS IN PHILADELPHIA 420 00:11:13,139 --> 00:11:15,041 PIONEERED THE "EYEWITNESS" AND 421 00:11:15,107 --> 00:11:16,042 "ACTION NEWS" FORMATS, WHICH 422 00:11:16,108 --> 00:11:17,843 LEANED HEAVILY ON CRIME NEWS. 423 00:11:17,910 --> 00:11:19,178 AS ONE ANCHOR THERE EXPLAINED, 424 00:11:19,245 --> 00:11:20,413 "CRIME WAS CHEAP TO COVER. 425 00:11:20,479 --> 00:11:21,881 IT WAS EASY TO COVER. 426 00:11:21,947 --> 00:11:23,416 THE ASSIGNMENT DESK SAID TO THE 427 00:11:23,482 --> 00:11:24,050 CAMERAMAN, 'YOU SHOOT THE SCENE, 428 00:11:24,116 --> 00:11:25,584 YOU SHOOT THE BLOOD, YOU SHOOT 429 00:11:25,651 --> 00:11:26,786 VICTIMS, WHATEVER THEY GOT. 430 00:11:26,852 --> 00:11:29,588 AND YOU CAN DO IT IN 20 431 00:11:29,655 --> 00:11:31,824 SECONDS.'" 432 00:11:31,891 --> 00:11:32,291 BUT THAT ISN'T GOOD. 433 00:11:32,358 --> 00:11:32,925 THE MOST MEANINGFUL STORIES ARE 434 00:11:32,992 --> 00:11:33,459 RARELY THE FASTEST OR THE 435 00:11:33,526 --> 00:11:34,360 CHEAPEST. 436 00:11:34,427 --> 00:11:35,061 AND I'M NOT JUST SAYING THAT 437 00:11:35,127 --> 00:11:36,996 BECAUSE I HOST "VERY LONG NEWS 438 00:11:37,063 --> 00:11:38,064 STORIES THAT ARE ALSO EXPENSIVE 439 00:11:38,130 --> 00:11:40,800 TO PRODUCE: THE COMEDY SHOW," 440 00:11:40,866 --> 00:11:41,500 I'M SAYING IT BECAUSE IT'S TRUE. 441 00:11:41,567 --> 00:11:43,669 NONETHELESS, THOSE FORMATS 442 00:11:43,736 --> 00:11:45,037 QUICKLY SPREAD TO 200 MARKETS 443 00:11:45,104 --> 00:11:46,739 AROUND THE COUNTRY. 444 00:11:46,806 --> 00:11:49,708 AND BY THE 1990S, CNN EVEN DID A 445 00:11:49,775 --> 00:11:50,876 WHOLE PIECE WONDERING IF ALL 446 00:11:50,943 --> 00:11:52,244 THAT CRIME COVERAGE WAS 447 00:11:52,311 --> 00:11:54,313 NECESSARILY A GOOD THING. 448 00:11:54,380 --> 00:11:56,015 >> CRIME NEWS CAN LOOK A LOT 449 00:11:56,082 --> 00:11:58,184 LIKE ENTERTAINMENT. 450 00:11:58,250 --> 00:12:00,086 >> THE DARK BLACK IS CRIME 451 00:12:00,152 --> 00:12:01,387 COVERAGE. 452 00:12:01,454 --> 00:12:02,655 >> ONE LOS ANGELES STATION, A 453 00:12:02,721 --> 00:12:05,458 STUDY SHOWS, SPENT OVER HALF ITS 454 00:12:05,524 --> 00:12:05,891 NEWSCASTS ON CRIME. 455 00:12:05,958 --> 00:12:06,792 OTHERS CAME CLOSE. 456 00:12:06,859 --> 00:12:10,996 >> I'M CONVINCED THAT IF YOU 457 00:12:11,063 --> 00:12:12,198 COULD GET EVERYONE WHO WANTED TO 458 00:12:12,264 --> 00:12:13,899 COMMIT SUICIDE TO DO IT ON -- IN 459 00:12:13,966 --> 00:12:16,335 A PUBLIC PLACE WHERE THE MEDIA 460 00:12:16,402 --> 00:12:17,903 COULD BE PRESENT, WE WOULD HAVE 461 00:12:17,970 --> 00:12:19,238 LIKE A TV SHOW CALLED "SUICIDE 462 00:12:19,305 --> 00:12:20,906 TODAY." 463 00:12:20,973 --> 00:12:22,441 >> John: WOW, WAY TO BRING DOWN 464 00:12:22,508 --> 00:12:26,779 THE ROOM. 465 00:12:26,846 --> 00:12:27,680 BUT NOT TO STEP ON THAT MAN'S 466 00:12:27,746 --> 00:12:28,581 CREATIVE PURSUITS, BUT THERE'S 467 00:12:28,647 --> 00:12:29,215 ALREADY PRIMETIME PROGRAMMING 468 00:12:29,281 --> 00:12:30,549 WHERE PEOPLE KILL THEMSELVES FOR 469 00:12:30,616 --> 00:12:31,684 OUR ENTERTAINMENT -- IT'S CALLED 470 00:12:31,750 --> 00:12:32,985 MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL. 471 00:12:33,052 --> 00:12:33,919 HAPPY CONCUSSION SEASON FOOTBALL 472 00:12:33,986 --> 00:12:35,087 FANS! 473 00:12:35,154 --> 00:12:38,791 IT SURE FEELS LIKE THIS SPORT 474 00:12:38,858 --> 00:12:39,625 MAYBE SHOULDN'T EXIST! 475 00:12:39,692 --> 00:12:40,593 SO PEOPLE HAVE BEEN RAISING THE 476 00:12:40,659 --> 00:12:42,094 ALARM ABOUT OUR OBSESSION WITH 477 00:12:42,161 --> 00:12:43,429 CRIME NEWS FOR A WHILE. 478 00:12:43,496 --> 00:12:45,064 BUT IT'S CLEARLY BEEN HARD FOR 479 00:12:45,131 --> 00:12:46,532 NEWS OUTLETS TO GIVE IT UP. 480 00:12:46,599 --> 00:12:48,300 AS THEY'RE CONSTANTLY MAKING 481 00:12:48,367 --> 00:12:49,835 SPACE FOR STORIES ABOUT CRIMES 482 00:12:49,902 --> 00:12:51,036 -- BE THEY MAJOR OR INCREDIBLY 483 00:12:51,103 --> 00:12:52,505 MINOR -- OFTEN ILLUSTRATED WITH 484 00:12:52,571 --> 00:12:54,306 MUGSHOTS. 485 00:12:54,373 --> 00:12:55,274 THE "NEW YORK DAILY NEWS" EVEN 486 00:12:55,341 --> 00:12:57,643 HAS MUGSHOT GALLERIES ON THEIR 487 00:12:57,710 --> 00:12:58,844 WEBSITE RIGHT NOW, WITH TITLES 488 00:12:58,911 --> 00:12:59,945 LIKE, "CRIMINALLY BAD HAIR 489 00:13:00,012 --> 00:13:01,147 DAYS." 490 00:13:01,213 --> 00:13:02,948 AND "BABES BEHIND BARS." 491 00:13:03,015 --> 00:13:07,753 IT'S FUN, ISN'T IT? 492 00:13:07,820 --> 00:13:08,521 IT'S FUN, BECAUSE IT'S THEIR 493 00:13:08,587 --> 00:13:08,787 WORST DAY. 494 00:13:08,854 --> 00:13:09,822 AND THE THING IS, THE FACES THAT 495 00:13:09,889 --> 00:13:10,456 GET SHOWN CAN COMPOUND EXISTING 496 00:13:10,523 --> 00:13:10,990 INEQUITIES IN OUR JUSTICE 497 00:13:11,056 --> 00:13:11,624 SYSTEM. 498 00:13:11,690 --> 00:13:13,592 A STUDY A FEW YEARS AGO HERE IN 499 00:13:13,659 --> 00:13:14,894 NEW YORK FOUND THAT, WHILE 500 00:13:14,960 --> 00:13:16,695 AROUND A QUARTER OF THE CITY'S 501 00:13:16,762 --> 00:13:18,864 POPULATION IS BLACK, BLACK 502 00:13:18,931 --> 00:13:20,366 PEOPLE MADE UP HALF OF ALL 503 00:13:20,432 --> 00:13:22,301 ARRESTS AND THREE-QUARTERS OF 504 00:13:22,368 --> 00:13:23,702 CRIMINALS SHOWN ON THE NEWS. 505 00:13:23,769 --> 00:13:24,703 WHICH IS CLEARLY GOING TO 506 00:13:24,770 --> 00:13:26,071 DISTORT PUBLIC PERCEPTION. 507 00:13:26,138 --> 00:13:28,340 AND WHILE OUTLETS MAY JUSTIFY 508 00:13:28,407 --> 00:13:29,141 REPORTING ON SENSATIONAL ARRESTS 509 00:13:29,208 --> 00:13:30,910 AS "PART OF THE PUBLIC 510 00:13:30,976 --> 00:13:32,912 INTEREST", FAR TOO OFTEN -- 511 00:13:32,978 --> 00:13:35,681 WHETHER DUE TO A LACK OF TIME, 512 00:13:35,748 --> 00:13:37,449 OR RESOURCES, OR INCLINATION -- 513 00:13:37,516 --> 00:13:38,083 THEY DON'T FOLLOW UP ON WHAT THE 514 00:13:38,150 --> 00:13:38,918 OUTCOMES OF THOSE CASES ARE. 515 00:13:38,984 --> 00:13:39,485 WHICH CAN SERIOUSLY IMPACT 516 00:13:39,552 --> 00:13:41,820 PEOPLE'S LIVES. 517 00:13:41,887 --> 00:13:43,055 TAKE DARCELL TROTTER -- HE AND 518 00:13:43,122 --> 00:13:45,124 HIS BROTHER WERE ACCUSED OF 519 00:13:45,191 --> 00:13:46,058 SEXUAL ASSAULT IN 2012, BY A 520 00:13:46,125 --> 00:13:47,326 WOMAN WHO NOT ONLY RECANTED HER 521 00:13:47,393 --> 00:13:48,928 ACCUSATIONS, BUT PLED GUILTY TO 522 00:13:48,994 --> 00:13:50,362 FILING A FALSE POLICE REPORT. 523 00:13:50,429 --> 00:13:52,097 THE PROBLEM IS, THEIR CHARGES 524 00:13:52,164 --> 00:13:54,900 HAD ALREADY MADE THE LOCAL NEWS, 525 00:13:54,967 --> 00:13:56,035 WHICH THEN NEVER GOT AROUND TO 526 00:13:56,101 --> 00:13:57,002 MENTIONING THE CHARGES WERE 527 00:13:57,069 --> 00:13:58,137 DISMISSED. 528 00:13:58,204 --> 00:14:00,139 AND YEARS LATER, WITH 529 00:14:00,206 --> 00:14:01,840 UNCORRECTED STORIES STILL 530 00:14:01,907 --> 00:14:02,708 SITTING ON NEWS SITES, DARCELL 531 00:14:02,775 --> 00:14:03,409 WAS HAVING TO MAKE CALLS LIKE 532 00:14:03,475 --> 00:14:04,777 THESE. 533 00:14:04,843 --> 00:14:05,678 >> HOW YOU DOING, JIM? 534 00:14:05,744 --> 00:14:07,313 MY NAME IS DARCELL TROTTER AND 535 00:14:07,379 --> 00:14:11,517 IT WAS AN ARTICLE REGARDING OF 536 00:14:11,584 --> 00:14:12,084 ACCUSED OF -- BEING ACCUSED OF 537 00:14:12,151 --> 00:14:13,619 SEXUAL ASSAULT, ME, MY TWIN 538 00:14:13,686 --> 00:14:14,453 BROTHER. 539 00:14:14,520 --> 00:14:15,554 >> DID WE DO A STORY WHERE THE 540 00:14:15,621 --> 00:14:16,255 CHARGES WERE DROPPED TOO? 541 00:14:16,322 --> 00:14:18,023 >> NO, YOU GUYS NEVER DID THAT. 542 00:14:18,090 --> 00:14:18,657 >> WE SHOULD'VE HAD A FOLLOW-UP 543 00:14:18,724 --> 00:14:21,327 STORY THAT CHARGES WERE DROPPED. 544 00:14:21,393 --> 00:14:21,994 >> YEAH, I MEAN, THAT WOULD HAVE 545 00:14:22,061 --> 00:14:23,596 BEEN NICE. 546 00:14:23,662 --> 00:14:25,397 >> John: YEAH, IT WOULD'VE BEEN! 547 00:14:25,464 --> 00:14:26,465 AND IF I COULD JUST TALK TO THE 548 00:14:26,532 --> 00:14:27,466 "JIM" THERE FOR A SECOND: HEY 549 00:14:27,533 --> 00:14:30,202 JIM -- I DON'T KNOW IF THAT'S 550 00:14:30,269 --> 00:14:30,769 SHORT FOR JAMES, JIMOTHY, OR 551 00:14:30,836 --> 00:14:32,404 JIMIROQUAI. 552 00:14:32,471 --> 00:14:33,906 BUT EITHER WAY, JIM? 553 00:14:33,973 --> 00:14:34,873 YOUR PAPER GOOFED! 554 00:14:34,940 --> 00:14:37,343 YOU CAN'T JUST REPORT THE START 555 00:14:37,409 --> 00:14:38,110 OF A STORY AND IGNORE THE END. 556 00:14:38,177 --> 00:14:38,844 IMAGINE IF THE NEWS HADN'T 557 00:14:38,911 --> 00:14:40,246 COVERED THE END OF BALLOON BOY. 558 00:14:40,312 --> 00:14:40,679 OH, WELL! 559 00:14:40,746 --> 00:14:42,281 GUESS HE'S STILL UP THERE! 560 00:14:42,348 --> 00:14:43,482 THE BALLOON HAS LEFT MY 561 00:14:43,549 --> 00:14:46,652 IMMEDIATE LINE OF VISION, SO, 562 00:14:46,719 --> 00:14:47,720 WHO REALLY GIVES A SHIT! 563 00:14:47,786 --> 00:14:49,822 SO THE NEWS MEDIA CAN BE OVERLY 564 00:14:49,888 --> 00:14:50,756 RELIANT ON EYE-CATCHING CRIME 565 00:14:50,823 --> 00:14:51,757 STORIES THAT ARE QUICK AND EASY 566 00:14:51,824 --> 00:14:52,625 TO TURN AROUND. 567 00:14:52,691 --> 00:14:54,693 AND THE SPEED WITH WHICH THE 568 00:14:54,760 --> 00:14:55,527 DAILY CRIME BEAT OPERATES 569 00:14:55,594 --> 00:14:56,996 ACTUALLY LEADS TO ONE OF THE 570 00:14:57,062 --> 00:14:58,163 BIGGEST ISSUES IN CRIME 571 00:14:58,230 --> 00:14:59,665 COVERAGE, WHICH IS THAT IT OFTEN 572 00:14:59,732 --> 00:15:00,799 RELIES HEAVILY ON A SINGLE 573 00:15:00,866 --> 00:15:03,002 SOURCE. 574 00:15:03,068 --> 00:15:04,570 IT'S WHY, IF YOU WATCH TV NEWS 575 00:15:04,637 --> 00:15:05,638 FOR ANY LENGTH OF TIME, YOU'LL 576 00:15:05,704 --> 00:15:06,939 UNDOUBTEDLY HEAR ONE PARTICULAR 577 00:15:07,006 --> 00:15:08,340 PHRASE. 578 00:15:08,407 --> 00:15:09,875 >> THE LOVINGTON POLICE SAY THEY 579 00:15:09,942 --> 00:15:11,477 KNOW WHO WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR A 580 00:15:11,543 --> 00:15:12,611 PRANK AT A LOCAL PARK. 581 00:15:12,678 --> 00:15:14,013 >> POLICE IN FAIRFIELD SAY AN 582 00:15:14,079 --> 00:15:15,180 OFFICER WAS ATTACKED WITH BEAR 583 00:15:15,247 --> 00:15:16,181 SPRAY. 584 00:15:16,248 --> 00:15:17,549 >> POLICE SAY NO SUSPECTS ARE IN 585 00:15:17,616 --> 00:15:17,950 CUSTODY. 586 00:15:18,017 --> 00:15:18,884 >> POLICE SAY -- 587 00:15:18,951 --> 00:15:19,418 >> POLICE SAY -- 588 00:15:19,485 --> 00:15:20,019 >> POLICE SAY -- 589 00:15:20,085 --> 00:15:20,719 >> POLICE SAY -- 590 00:15:20,786 --> 00:15:21,587 >> POLICE SAY -- 591 00:15:21,654 --> 00:15:23,188 >> POLICE SAY -- 592 00:15:23,255 --> 00:15:25,391 >> John: YEAH, "POLICE SAY" IS A 593 00:15:25,457 --> 00:15:26,525 PHRASE YOU CONSTANTLY HEAR FROM 594 00:15:26,592 --> 00:15:28,227 THE MOUTHS OF NEWS REPORTERS. 595 00:15:28,294 --> 00:15:29,028 IT'S RIGHT UP THERE WITH, 596 00:15:29,094 --> 00:15:30,029 "THIS JUST IN," OR 597 00:15:30,095 --> 00:15:31,330 "BACK TO YOU," OR 598 00:15:31,397 --> 00:15:32,798 "I APOLOGIZE FOR THE ACCENT I 599 00:15:32,865 --> 00:15:35,401 DID ON CINCO DE MAYO." 600 00:15:35,467 --> 00:15:37,236 AND LOOK, THERE'S OBVIOUSLY 601 00:15:37,303 --> 00:15:38,037 NOTHING WRONG WITH CALLING THE 602 00:15:38,103 --> 00:15:39,471 POLICE TO ASK QUESTIONS. 603 00:15:39,538 --> 00:15:40,773 WHEN YOU'RE WORKING ON A 604 00:15:40,839 --> 00:15:41,974 DEADLINE, YOU CAN'T ALWAYS REACH 605 00:15:42,041 --> 00:15:42,941 ARRESTED CIVILIANS OR THEIR 606 00:15:43,008 --> 00:15:44,610 ATTORNEYS, WHO SOMETIMES DON'T 607 00:15:44,677 --> 00:15:45,844 WANT TO TALK WITH YOU ANYWAY. 608 00:15:45,911 --> 00:15:48,147 AND POLICE CAN BE EASY TO REACH 609 00:15:48,213 --> 00:15:48,981 -- MANY LARGER DEPARTMENTS HAVE 610 00:15:49,048 --> 00:15:50,749 EVEN SET UP ROBUST 611 00:15:50,816 --> 00:15:51,950 MEDIA-RELATIONS DIVISIONS. 612 00:15:52,017 --> 00:15:53,352 THE LA COUNTY SHERIFF'S 613 00:15:53,419 --> 00:15:55,487 DEPARTMENT HAS 42 PEOPLE IN ITS 614 00:15:55,554 --> 00:15:56,755 INFORMATION BUREAU, AT AN ANNUAL 615 00:15:56,822 --> 00:15:58,624 COST OF $4.8 MILLION, AND THE 616 00:15:58,691 --> 00:16:00,726 LAPD SPENDS OVER $3 MILLION FOR 617 00:16:00,793 --> 00:16:03,195 25 PEOPLE IN SIMILAR UNITS. 618 00:16:03,262 --> 00:16:05,297 WHICH IS ALREADY TELLING. 619 00:16:05,364 --> 00:16:06,465 BECAUSE WHILE A CERTAIN AMOUNT 620 00:16:06,532 --> 00:16:08,334 OF SPENDING IS NECESSARY, YOU 621 00:16:08,400 --> 00:16:09,902 DON'T SPEND THAT MUCH ON PR IF 622 00:16:09,968 --> 00:16:11,570 THINGS ARE GOING "GREAT." 623 00:16:11,637 --> 00:16:12,738 FOR CONTEXT, ALL THOSE BUDGETS 624 00:16:12,805 --> 00:16:15,207 COMBINED EQUAL JUST ONE MONTH'S 625 00:16:15,274 --> 00:16:15,708 SALARY FOR EZRA MILLER'S 626 00:16:15,774 --> 00:16:16,875 PUBLICIST. 627 00:16:16,942 --> 00:16:22,348 THEY ARE SO TIRED. 628 00:16:22,414 --> 00:16:22,781 THEY NEED TO SLEEP. 629 00:16:22,848 --> 00:16:23,415 EVEN SMALLER POLICE DEPARTMENTS 630 00:16:23,482 --> 00:16:24,750 CAN HAVE PUBLIC INFORMATION 631 00:16:24,817 --> 00:16:26,552 OFFICERS, OR PIO'S, AND AS THIS 632 00:16:26,618 --> 00:16:27,720 ONE PROUDLY NOTES, HIS PRESS 633 00:16:27,786 --> 00:16:28,754 RELEASES CAN MAKE IT STRAIGHT TO 634 00:16:28,821 --> 00:16:30,356 AIR. 635 00:16:30,422 --> 00:16:32,291 >> SOMETHING MAJOR HAPPENS, 636 00:16:32,358 --> 00:16:33,892 WHETHER IT'S A SHOOTING OR SOME 637 00:16:33,959 --> 00:16:34,526 MAJOR CAR ACCIDENT, WHATEVER IT 638 00:16:34,593 --> 00:16:35,361 IS. 639 00:16:35,427 --> 00:16:37,062 YOU GO BACK TO YOUR OFFICE. 640 00:16:37,129 --> 00:16:38,964 YOU TYPE UP THIS LONG PRESS 641 00:16:39,031 --> 00:16:40,299 RELEASE, AND YOU SEND IT OUT TO 642 00:16:40,366 --> 00:16:41,100 THE PUBLIC AND ALL THE NEWS 643 00:16:41,166 --> 00:16:42,101 AGENCIES. 644 00:16:42,167 --> 00:16:43,235 WITHIN MINUTES, YOU HAVE 645 00:16:43,302 --> 00:16:44,403 REPORTERS FROM ALL OVER THE 646 00:16:44,470 --> 00:16:45,938 COUNTRY CALLING YOU. 647 00:16:46,004 --> 00:16:47,473 THERE'S SOMETHING STRANGELY 648 00:16:47,539 --> 00:16:49,208 SATISFYING THAT WHEN YOU PUT OUT 649 00:16:49,274 --> 00:16:51,176 THAT PRESS RELEASE, HOURS LATER, 650 00:16:51,243 --> 00:16:53,846 YOU'RE WATCHING THE NEWS, AND 651 00:16:53,912 --> 00:16:56,081 EVERY STATION THAT'S TALKING 652 00:16:56,148 --> 00:16:58,817 ABOUT YOUR STORY IS LITERALLY 653 00:16:58,884 --> 00:17:00,119 READING YOUR PRESS RELEASE WORD 654 00:17:00,185 --> 00:17:02,254 FOR WORD. 655 00:17:02,321 --> 00:17:02,888 >> John: SET ASIDE THE FACT THAT 656 00:17:02,955 --> 00:17:03,422 EVERYTHING ABOUT THIS MAN 657 00:17:03,489 --> 00:17:05,224 ANSWERS THE QUESTION "WHAT IF 658 00:17:05,290 --> 00:17:06,825 FRED DURST BUT WORSE?" 659 00:17:06,892 --> 00:17:07,993 THAT CLAIM THAT THE POLICE'S 660 00:17:08,060 --> 00:17:09,528 VERSIONS OF EVENTS CAN BE 661 00:17:09,595 --> 00:17:10,462 PARROTED VERBATIM IN THE PRESS 662 00:17:10,529 --> 00:17:11,830 IS GENUINELY ALARMING. 663 00:17:11,897 --> 00:17:13,799 ALTHOUGH I CAN'T REALLY FAULT 664 00:17:13,866 --> 00:17:14,867 HIM FOR BEING EXCITED AT SEEING 665 00:17:14,933 --> 00:17:15,768 HIS WORK READ WORD FOR WORD ON 666 00:17:15,834 --> 00:17:16,969 TV. 667 00:17:17,035 --> 00:17:18,270 ASK MY WRITERS AND THEY'LL TELL 668 00:17:18,337 --> 00:17:19,571 YOU THEY EXPERIENCE THE SAME 669 00:17:19,638 --> 00:17:20,706 THRILL WHENEVER I READ ONE OF 670 00:17:20,773 --> 00:17:22,141 THEIR LITTLE JIZZ JOKES. 671 00:17:22,207 --> 00:17:22,808 THEIR PARENTS COULDN'T BE 672 00:17:22,875 --> 00:17:24,943 PROUDER. 673 00:17:25,010 --> 00:17:26,311 HEY, CHRISSY, DID YOU LIKE 674 00:17:26,378 --> 00:17:34,153 HEARING ME SAY YOUR MCGRUFF DOG 675 00:17:34,219 --> 00:17:34,920 JERKING IT JOKE, I BET YOU DID 676 00:17:34,987 --> 00:17:35,387 YOU COLLEGE GRADUATE? 677 00:17:35,454 --> 00:17:36,054 BUT THE FACT REPORTERS WILL ECHO 678 00:17:36,121 --> 00:17:36,588 PIO'S DOES EXPLAIN CERTAIN 679 00:17:36,655 --> 00:17:38,357 THINGS -- LIKE THE UBIQUITY OF 680 00:17:38,424 --> 00:17:39,691 PHRASES LIKE "OFFICER-INVOLVED 681 00:17:39,758 --> 00:17:42,594 SHOOTING." 682 00:17:42,661 --> 00:17:43,195 YOU SEE IT IN POLICE ACCOUNTS 683 00:17:43,262 --> 00:17:44,363 ALL THE TIME, BUT IT'S A WEIRD 684 00:17:44,430 --> 00:17:45,264 TERM FOR REPORTERS TO REPEAT, 685 00:17:45,330 --> 00:17:47,332 BECAUSE IT DELIBERATELY OMITS 686 00:17:47,399 --> 00:17:48,167 CRUCIAL INFORMATION ABOUT HOW 687 00:17:48,233 --> 00:17:50,702 THE OFFICER WAS INVOLVED. 688 00:17:50,769 --> 00:17:51,737 IF YOU WENT TO SOMEONE'S HOUSE 689 00:17:51,804 --> 00:17:53,305 FOR DINNER AND THEY SAID 690 00:17:53,372 --> 00:17:54,173 "TONIGHT, THERE IS A 691 00:17:54,239 --> 00:17:56,074 RAT-INVOLVED DINNER," YOU'D 692 00:17:56,141 --> 00:17:57,342 JUSTIFIABLY HAVE FOLLOW UP 693 00:17:57,409 --> 00:17:57,943 QUESTIONS. 694 00:17:58,010 --> 00:17:58,777 ARE WE GOING TO A 695 00:17:58,844 --> 00:18:00,012 CHUCK E. CHEESE? 696 00:18:00,078 --> 00:18:01,447 IS THE CHEF BEING CONTROLLED BY 697 00:18:01,513 --> 00:18:03,348 A TINY FRENCH RAT UNDER HIS HAT? 698 00:18:03,415 --> 00:18:08,387 OR ARE WE GOING TO BE ON AN 699 00:18:08,454 --> 00:18:09,588 EPISODE OF "KITCHEN NIGHTMARES?" 700 00:18:09,655 --> 00:18:10,122 ALL THREE ARE TECHNICALLY 701 00:18:10,189 --> 00:18:10,756 "RAT-INVOLVED", BUT SOME OPTIONS 702 00:18:10,823 --> 00:18:11,323 ARE EASIER TO LIVE WITH THAN 703 00:18:11,390 --> 00:18:11,757 OTHERS. 704 00:18:11,824 --> 00:18:13,392 AND HONESTLY, POLICE DEPARTMENTS 705 00:18:13,459 --> 00:18:14,493 DON'T ALWAYS NEED A PIO TO PUSH 706 00:18:14,560 --> 00:18:15,527 THEIR NARRATIVE, AS OUTLETS WILL 707 00:18:15,594 --> 00:18:17,796 SOMETIMES JUST GRAB SHIT FROM A 708 00:18:17,863 --> 00:18:18,764 LAW-ENFORCEMENT AGENCY'S SOCIAL 709 00:18:18,831 --> 00:18:20,132 MEDIA. 710 00:18:20,199 --> 00:18:22,067 FOR INSTANCE, POLICE LOVE 711 00:18:22,134 --> 00:18:24,336 POSTING EVIDENCE FROM BUSTS 712 00:18:24,403 --> 00:18:25,704 THEY'VE CONDUCTED LIKE THIS ONE, 713 00:18:25,771 --> 00:18:26,805 WHICH A TEXAS NEWS STATION NOT 714 00:18:26,872 --> 00:18:28,607 ONLY SHARED ON THEIR OWN 715 00:18:28,674 --> 00:18:29,741 FACEBOOK PAGE, BUT EVEN INCLUDED 716 00:18:29,808 --> 00:18:31,777 ON THEIR EVENING BROADCAST. 717 00:18:31,844 --> 00:18:33,011 >> A SEARCH WARRANT EXECUTED 718 00:18:33,078 --> 00:18:33,745 MONDAY HAS LEFT THREE PEOPLE 719 00:18:33,812 --> 00:18:35,180 BEHIND BARS. 720 00:18:35,247 --> 00:18:36,315 THE TENAHA POLICE DEPARTMENT HAS 721 00:18:36,381 --> 00:18:37,049 RELEASED INFORMATION ON THE 722 00:18:37,115 --> 00:18:38,517 RAID. 723 00:18:38,584 --> 00:18:40,486 >> AMONG THE ITEMS SEIZED WERE 724 00:18:40,552 --> 00:18:42,688 TWO POUNDS OF MARIJUANA, 725 00:18:42,754 --> 00:18:44,356 ILLEGALLY POSSESSED PRESCRIPTION 726 00:18:44,423 --> 00:18:46,058 PILLS, DRUG PARAPHERNALIA, 727 00:18:46,125 --> 00:18:47,626 PACKAGING MATERIALS, GUNS, AND 728 00:18:47,693 --> 00:18:48,460 CASH. 729 00:18:48,527 --> 00:18:50,329 >> John: NOW, IF YOU DON'T 730 00:18:50,395 --> 00:18:50,963 REALLY THINK ABOUT WHAT YOU'RE 731 00:18:51,029 --> 00:18:51,563 LOOKING AT THERE, I GUESS THAT 732 00:18:51,630 --> 00:18:52,764 SEEMS LIKE A STORY. 733 00:18:52,831 --> 00:18:55,567 BUT IS IT? 734 00:18:55,634 --> 00:18:57,102 BECAUSE, AS MANY QUICKLY POINTED 735 00:18:57,169 --> 00:18:58,136 OUT, WHEN YOU EXAMINE THE PHOTO, 736 00:18:58,203 --> 00:18:59,471 YOU REALIZE, NOT ONLY IS THAT 737 00:18:59,538 --> 00:19:02,074 NOT A LOT OF DRUGS, THERE'S WAY 738 00:19:02,140 --> 00:19:03,275 LESS CASH THERE THAN THEY'RE 739 00:19:03,342 --> 00:19:04,376 GOING OUT OF THEIR WAY TO MAKE 740 00:19:04,443 --> 00:19:05,844 IT LOOK. 741 00:19:05,911 --> 00:19:09,014 MOST OF THOSE ARE SINGLES. 742 00:19:09,081 --> 00:19:11,383 THAT'S $70, TOTAL. 743 00:19:11,450 --> 00:19:12,551 ONE COMMENTER ON THE STATION'S 744 00:19:12,618 --> 00:19:13,919 POST SAID, "SICK. 745 00:19:13,986 --> 00:19:15,087 THIS IS PLAYSKOOL'S MY FIRST 746 00:19:15,153 --> 00:19:17,089 DEALER SET," WITH ANOTHER 747 00:19:17,155 --> 00:19:18,190 ADDING, "WHO WAS THE DRUG 748 00:19:18,257 --> 00:19:21,093 DEALER, EL CHEAPO?" 749 00:19:21,159 --> 00:19:22,628 AND THAT SPEAKS TO THE FACT 750 00:19:22,694 --> 00:19:25,998 THERE CAN BE A GAP -- SOMETIMES 751 00:19:26,064 --> 00:19:26,732 SMALL, BUT SOMETIMES MASSIVE -- 752 00:19:26,798 --> 00:19:28,800 BETWEEN "THE STORY POLICE ARE 753 00:19:28,867 --> 00:19:29,468 TELLING EVERYONE" AND "THE STORY 754 00:19:29,535 --> 00:19:31,303 THAT ACTUALLY HAPPENED." 755 00:19:31,370 --> 00:19:32,671 BECAUSE COPS' STORIES CAN, FOR A 756 00:19:32,738 --> 00:19:33,305 LOT OF REASONS, TURN OUT TO BE 757 00:19:33,372 --> 00:19:35,107 WRONG, IN WAYS BOTH SERIOUS, AND 758 00:19:35,173 --> 00:19:37,543 INCREDIBLY PETTY. 759 00:19:37,609 --> 00:19:39,011 TAKE THE TREND OF COPS CLAIMING 760 00:19:39,077 --> 00:19:39,811 MISTREATMENT AT THE HANDS OF 761 00:19:39,878 --> 00:19:41,547 FAST-FOOD EMPLOYEES, WHICH LOCAL 762 00:19:41,613 --> 00:19:45,050 NEWS CAN BE ONLY HAPPY TO GOBBLE 763 00:19:45,117 --> 00:19:46,485 RIGHT UP. 764 00:19:46,552 --> 00:19:47,853 >> A POSSIBLE HATE CRIME AGAINST 765 00:19:47,920 --> 00:19:49,254 POLICE IS BEING INVESTIGATED 766 00:19:49,321 --> 00:19:51,189 RIGHT NOW AT A SHAKE SHACK IN 767 00:19:51,256 --> 00:19:53,425 DOWNTOWN MANHATTAN. 768 00:19:53,492 --> 00:19:55,160 SOURCES TELL CBS 2, THREE 769 00:19:55,227 --> 00:19:56,428 OFFICERS BECAME SICK AFTER 770 00:19:56,495 --> 00:19:57,696 HAVING SHAKES FROM THE 771 00:19:57,763 --> 00:19:59,698 RESTAURANT TONIGHT. 772 00:19:59,765 --> 00:20:01,166 POLICE SUSPECT AN EMPLOYEE MAY 773 00:20:01,233 --> 00:20:02,434 HAVE CONTAMINATED THE DRINKS 774 00:20:02,501 --> 00:20:04,937 WITH BLEACH. 775 00:20:05,003 --> 00:20:06,204 >> THE LAYTON POLICE SERGEANT 776 00:20:06,271 --> 00:20:08,006 ORDERED A SUB AND A LEMONADE 777 00:20:08,073 --> 00:20:09,174 FROM THIS SUBWAY. 778 00:20:09,241 --> 00:20:10,909 BUT AFTER TAKING A FEW SIPS OF 779 00:20:10,976 --> 00:20:12,744 HIS DRINK, HE QUICKLY FOUND OUT 780 00:20:12,811 --> 00:20:14,212 HE GOT MUCH MORE THAN WHAT HE 781 00:20:14,279 --> 00:20:15,147 PAID FOR. 782 00:20:15,213 --> 00:20:16,181 >> HE WAS HAVING A HARD TIME 783 00:20:16,248 --> 00:20:16,949 MAINTAINING HIS BODY. 784 00:20:17,015 --> 00:20:18,250 HIS BODY WAS JERKING. 785 00:20:18,317 --> 00:20:19,217 >> WHAT CAUSED THOSE SIDE 786 00:20:19,284 --> 00:20:21,253 EFFECTS, POLICE SAY, TURNED OUT 787 00:20:21,320 --> 00:20:22,187 TO BE A DOUBLE DOSE OF ILLEGAL 788 00:20:22,254 --> 00:20:23,055 NARCOTICS. 789 00:20:23,121 --> 00:20:25,157 >> DJ, A LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT 790 00:20:25,223 --> 00:20:27,225 OFFICER TOLD EYEWITNESS NEWS HE 791 00:20:27,292 --> 00:20:30,162 SUSPECTS SOMEONE AT MCDONALD'S 792 00:20:30,228 --> 00:20:32,698 TOOK A BITE FROM HIS SANDWICH 793 00:20:32,764 --> 00:20:34,666 BEFORE HE COMPLETED THE SALE. 794 00:20:34,733 --> 00:20:35,534 >> TONIGHT A MCDONALD'S IN 795 00:20:35,601 --> 00:20:36,635 JUNCTION CITY IS INVESTIGATING 796 00:20:36,702 --> 00:20:37,970 AFTER A POLICE OFFICER FOUND 797 00:20:38,036 --> 00:20:39,338 INSULTING WORDS WRITTEN ON HIS 798 00:20:39,404 --> 00:20:40,305 COFFEE. 799 00:20:40,372 --> 00:20:42,074 THE F WORD HAS BEEN BLURRED OUT 800 00:20:42,140 --> 00:20:43,976 IN THIS IMAGE OF COURSE BUT, YOU 801 00:20:44,042 --> 00:20:44,643 CAN SEE THE WORD PIG WRITTEN 802 00:20:44,710 --> 00:20:45,911 RIGHT BELOW IT. 803 00:20:45,978 --> 00:20:47,446 >> John: OKAY, THERE'S A LOT 804 00:20:47,512 --> 00:20:48,313 THERE, BUT REAL QUICK: THERE WAS 805 00:20:48,380 --> 00:20:49,982 NO BLEACH IN THE SHAKES, NO 806 00:20:50,048 --> 00:20:51,149 DRUGS IN THE LEMONADE, THE COP 807 00:20:51,216 --> 00:20:52,818 WITH THE SANDWICH LATER ADMITTED 808 00:20:52,884 --> 00:20:53,952 HE'D SIMPLY FORGOTTEN HE TOOK A 809 00:20:54,019 --> 00:20:55,988 BITE FROM IT, AND THE ONE WITH 810 00:20:56,054 --> 00:20:57,422 THE COFFEE ADMITTED HE'D WRITTEN 811 00:20:57,489 --> 00:21:02,260 "FUCKING PIG" ON HIS OWN CUP. 812 00:21:02,327 --> 00:21:02,861 WHICH IS A SERIOUS ACT OF 813 00:21:02,928 --> 00:21:03,629 SELF-LOATHING, UNLESS YOU'RE 814 00:21:03,695 --> 00:21:06,031 MISS PIGGY, IN WHICH CASE IT'S A 815 00:21:06,098 --> 00:21:08,533 SLAY. 816 00:21:08,600 --> 00:21:09,468 OUTTA THE WAY BOYS, SHE'S GOT 817 00:21:09,534 --> 00:21:10,202 FASHION TO WERK AND FROG DICK TO 818 00:21:10,268 --> 00:21:10,802 SLURP. 819 00:21:10,869 --> 00:21:12,571 WHO'S COFFEE IS THAT? 820 00:21:12,638 --> 00:21:15,440 IT'S THIS FUCKING PIG'S. 821 00:21:15,507 --> 00:21:16,875 AND THAT SPEAKS TO ONE OF THE 822 00:21:16,942 --> 00:21:18,410 MAJOR PROBLEMS WITH DEFERRING TO 823 00:21:18,477 --> 00:21:20,445 POLICE. 824 00:21:20,512 --> 00:21:21,513 BECAUSE -- AS MANY OF YOU HAVE 825 00:21:21,580 --> 00:21:22,848 UNDOUBTEDLY BEEN YELLING AT YOUR 826 00:21:22,914 --> 00:21:25,751 TV, LIKE I'M A WHEEL OF FORTUNE 827 00:21:25,817 --> 00:21:26,318 CONTESTANT WHO CAN'T SOLVE THE 828 00:21:26,385 --> 00:21:28,887 PUZZLE -- POLICE LIE, AND THEY 829 00:21:28,954 --> 00:21:29,988 LIE A LOT. 830 00:21:30,055 --> 00:21:31,056 AS YOU'VE SEEN ON THIS SHOW, 831 00:21:31,123 --> 00:21:33,291 THEY'VE LIED TO GET SEARCH 832 00:21:33,358 --> 00:21:34,192 WARRANTS TO CONDUCT RAIDS AND TO 833 00:21:34,259 --> 00:21:35,360 GET CONFESSIONS DURING 834 00:21:35,427 --> 00:21:37,429 INTERROGATIONS, AND THEY EVEN 835 00:21:37,496 --> 00:21:39,931 LIE UNDER OATH -- SO OFTEN THAT, 836 00:21:39,998 --> 00:21:41,333 HERE IN NEW YORK, IT CAME TO BE 837 00:21:41,400 --> 00:21:43,802 KNOWN AS "TESTILYING." 838 00:21:43,869 --> 00:21:45,003 ALL OF WHICH SHOULD BE MORE THAN 839 00:21:45,070 --> 00:21:45,804 ENOUGH FOR "THE WORD OF THE 840 00:21:45,871 --> 00:21:47,272 POLICE" TO BE TREATED WITH 841 00:21:47,339 --> 00:21:48,440 IMMENSE SKEPTICISM, RATHER THAN 842 00:21:48,507 --> 00:21:50,976 REPEATED VERBATIM. 843 00:21:51,043 --> 00:21:52,544 TAKE THE NOTORIOUS PRESS RELEASE 844 00:21:52,611 --> 00:21:55,313 MINNEAPOLIS POLICE PUT OUT 845 00:21:55,380 --> 00:21:57,182 FOLLOWING THE MURDER OF GEORGE 846 00:21:57,249 --> 00:21:58,116 FLOYD TITLED "MAN DIES AFTER 847 00:21:58,183 --> 00:21:59,384 MEDICAL INCIDENT DURING POLICE 848 00:21:59,451 --> 00:22:00,519 INTERACTION." 849 00:22:00,585 --> 00:22:02,120 WHAT YOU MAY NOT KNOW IS, IT WAS 850 00:22:02,187 --> 00:22:05,490 PICKED UP ALMOST WORD FOR WORD 851 00:22:05,557 --> 00:22:10,696 BY LOCAL NEWS THE NEXT MORNING. 852 00:22:10,762 --> 00:22:11,363 >> WE DO BEGIN THIS MORNING WITH 853 00:22:11,430 --> 00:22:11,963 DEVELOPING NEWS. 854 00:22:12,030 --> 00:22:13,699 A MAN IS DEAD AFTER WHAT POLICE 855 00:22:13,765 --> 00:22:14,299 ARE CALLING A MEDICAL DISTRESS 856 00:22:14,366 --> 00:22:14,800 AFTER BEING HANDCUFFED. 857 00:22:14,866 --> 00:22:15,600 NOW, OFFICERS WERE RESPONDING TO 858 00:22:15,667 --> 00:22:17,469 A FORGERY IN PROGRESS. 859 00:22:17,536 --> 00:22:18,804 IT HAPPENED ON THE 3700 BLOCK OF 860 00:22:18,870 --> 00:22:20,739 CHICAGO AVENUE SOUTH. 861 00:22:20,806 --> 00:22:22,607 WHEN THEY ARRIVED, OFFICERS 862 00:22:22,674 --> 00:22:23,508 FOUND A MAN THEY BELIEVED TO BE 863 00:22:23,575 --> 00:22:24,309 THE SUSPECT SITTING INSIDE A 864 00:22:24,376 --> 00:22:25,711 CAR. 865 00:22:25,777 --> 00:22:26,678 THEY APPARENTLY TOLD HIM TO GET 866 00:22:26,745 --> 00:22:27,979 OUT. 867 00:22:28,046 --> 00:22:28,747 HE RESISTED. 868 00:22:28,814 --> 00:22:30,615 OFFICERS EVENTUALLY GOT HIM 869 00:22:30,682 --> 00:22:31,817 HANDCUFFED, WHICH IS WHEN HE 870 00:22:31,883 --> 00:22:33,118 APPEARED TO HAVE THE MEDICAL 871 00:22:33,185 --> 00:22:34,052 ISSUE. 872 00:22:34,119 --> 00:22:35,854 THE SUSPECT WAS TAKEN TO THE 873 00:22:35,921 --> 00:22:36,755 HOSPITAL, WHERE HE DIED A SHORT 874 00:22:36,822 --> 00:22:37,989 TIME LATER. 875 00:22:38,056 --> 00:22:40,092 >> John: NOW, OBVIOUSLY, THAT'S 876 00:22:40,158 --> 00:22:40,826 A HUGELY SELF-SERVING STATEMENT 877 00:22:40,892 --> 00:22:41,793 FROM THE POLICE. 878 00:22:41,860 --> 00:22:43,361 BECAUSE BY SAYING "GEORGE FLOYD 879 00:22:43,428 --> 00:22:45,530 DIED BECAUSE OF MEDICAL 880 00:22:45,597 --> 00:22:46,898 DISTRESS," THEIR ROLE WAS 881 00:22:46,965 --> 00:22:48,633 COMPLETELY ERASED. 882 00:22:48,700 --> 00:22:49,968 HIS "MEDICAL DISTRESS" -- AND 883 00:22:50,035 --> 00:22:51,737 I'M USING THE BIGGEST AIR QUOTES 884 00:22:51,803 --> 00:22:53,371 HUMANLY POSSIBLE -- WAS THE 885 00:22:53,438 --> 00:22:54,539 RESULT OF AN OFFICER PRESSING 886 00:22:54,606 --> 00:22:56,274 HIS KNEE INTO HIS NECK FOR NINE 887 00:22:56,341 --> 00:22:57,743 MINUTES. 888 00:22:57,809 --> 00:22:58,910 REPEATING THAT CLAIM BY THE 889 00:22:58,977 --> 00:23:00,545 POLICE IS AN ACT OF MALPRACTICE 890 00:23:00,612 --> 00:23:02,280 AKIN TO WALTER CRONKITE SAYING, 891 00:23:02,347 --> 00:23:04,282 "JFK DIED OF A HEADACHE TODAY." 892 00:23:04,349 --> 00:23:05,784 SURE, IT'S NOT "TECHNICALLY" 893 00:23:05,851 --> 00:23:06,618 WRONG, BUT IT'S THE 894 00:23:06,685 --> 00:23:08,320 UNDERSTATEMENT OF THE FUCKING 895 00:23:08,386 --> 00:23:11,156 CENTURY. 896 00:23:11,223 --> 00:23:12,390 THE POINT IS, IT WAS ONLY AFTER 897 00:23:12,457 --> 00:23:13,792 THE RELEASE OF CELL PHONE 898 00:23:13,859 --> 00:23:14,860 FOOTAGE RECORDED BY A BRAVE 899 00:23:14,926 --> 00:23:15,727 SEVENTEEN YEAR OLD GIRL, THAT 900 00:23:15,794 --> 00:23:16,361 THAT POLICE NARRATIVE FELL 901 00:23:16,428 --> 00:23:17,929 APART. 902 00:23:17,996 --> 00:23:18,964 OTHERWISE, THAT BULLSHIT PRESS 903 00:23:19,030 --> 00:23:20,532 RELEASE MIGHT WELL HAVE BEEN THE 904 00:23:20,599 --> 00:23:21,967 VERSION OF EVENTS THAT EVERYBODY 905 00:23:22,033 --> 00:23:23,068 HEARD. 906 00:23:23,135 --> 00:23:25,303 AND THAT'S NOT A ONE-OFF. 907 00:23:25,370 --> 00:23:26,338 AN INVESTIGATION LAST YEAR OF 908 00:23:26,404 --> 00:23:27,639 POLICE KILLINGS IN CALIFORNIA, 909 00:23:27,706 --> 00:23:29,241 FOUND AT LEAST A DOZEN EXAMPLES 910 00:23:29,307 --> 00:23:30,776 OF INITIAL POLICE STATEMENTS 911 00:23:30,842 --> 00:23:33,745 MISREPRESENTING EVENTS, WITH 912 00:23:33,812 --> 00:23:35,580 REPORTS CITING "VAGUE MEDICAL 913 00:23:35,647 --> 00:23:37,415 EMERGENCIES WITHOUT DISCLOSING 914 00:23:37,482 --> 00:23:38,984 THAT OFFICERS HAD CAUSED THE 915 00:23:39,050 --> 00:23:39,718 EMERGENCIES THROUGH THEIR USE OF 916 00:23:39,785 --> 00:23:40,585 FORCE." 917 00:23:40,652 --> 00:23:42,621 AND "IN MOST INSTANCES, MEDIA 918 00:23:42,687 --> 00:23:44,756 OUTLETS REPEATED THE POLICE 919 00:23:44,823 --> 00:23:45,357 VERSION OF EVENTS WITH LITTLE 920 00:23:45,423 --> 00:23:46,424 SKEPTICISM." 921 00:23:46,491 --> 00:23:49,361 WHICH ISN'T GOOD! 922 00:23:49,427 --> 00:23:50,996 THERE'S A TIME AND A PLACE FOR 923 00:23:51,062 --> 00:23:52,697 MEDIA OUTLETS TO OPERATE WITHOUT 924 00:23:52,764 --> 00:23:55,367 SKEPTICISM, AND IT'S THE COVER 925 00:23:55,433 --> 00:23:56,635 OF HEALTH MAGAZINES -- NOT AN 926 00:23:56,701 --> 00:23:57,903 OUNCE OF CRITICAL THINKING ON 927 00:23:57,969 --> 00:24:00,172 THIS EXTREMELY REAL COVER THAT 928 00:24:00,238 --> 00:24:01,973 INCLUDES THE HEADLINES "LOSE 9 929 00:24:02,040 --> 00:24:03,608 WAIST INCHES IN 21 DAYS" AND 930 00:24:03,675 --> 00:24:05,677 "NEWS! 931 00:24:05,744 --> 00:24:06,778 A POTATO A DAY UPS WEIGHT LOSS 932 00:24:06,845 --> 00:24:08,747 BY 340%!" 933 00:24:08,814 --> 00:24:10,282 THAT'S ROCK SOLID SCIENCE, 934 00:24:10,348 --> 00:24:12,217 PRESUMABLY! 935 00:24:12,284 --> 00:24:15,320 AND THERE ARE TIMES WHERE THE 936 00:24:15,387 --> 00:24:16,188 TRUST REPORTERS PLACE IN SOME 937 00:24:16,254 --> 00:24:17,355 POLICE SOURCES HAS BEEN 938 00:24:17,422 --> 00:24:19,591 PARTICULARLY EGREGIOUS. 939 00:24:19,658 --> 00:24:22,761 JUST TAKE WHAT HAPPENED IN 940 00:24:22,828 --> 00:24:24,362 CHICAGO, AFTER THE POLICE SHOT 941 00:24:24,429 --> 00:24:25,463 TEENAGER LAQUAN MCDONALD SIXTEEN 942 00:24:25,530 --> 00:24:25,964 TIMES. 943 00:24:26,031 --> 00:24:26,498 IN THEIR INITIAL COVERAGE, 944 00:24:26,565 --> 00:24:28,033 MULTIPLE LOCAL OUTLETS FEATURED 945 00:24:28,099 --> 00:24:29,100 INTERVIEWS WITH ONE PERSON ON 946 00:24:29,167 --> 00:24:32,003 THE SCENE, WHOSE VERSION OF 947 00:24:32,070 --> 00:24:32,971 EVENTS HEAVILY FAVORED THE 948 00:24:33,038 --> 00:24:33,205 POLICE. 949 00:24:33,271 --> 00:24:34,639 >> I DON'T KNOW WHAT HIS MENTAL 950 00:24:34,706 --> 00:24:36,174 STATE WAS, BUT HE WASN'T 951 00:24:36,241 --> 00:24:37,309 DROPPING THE KNIFE AND HE WAS 952 00:24:37,375 --> 00:24:39,344 COMING AT THE OFFICER. 953 00:24:39,411 --> 00:24:39,945 YOU OBVIOUSLY AREN'T GOING TO 954 00:24:40,011 --> 00:24:40,912 SIT DOWN AND HAVE A CUP OF 955 00:24:40,979 --> 00:24:42,848 COFFEE WITH HIM. 956 00:24:42,914 --> 00:24:45,650 HE IS A VERY SERIOUS THREAT TO 957 00:24:45,717 --> 00:24:47,886 THE OFFICERS, AND HE LEAVES THEM 958 00:24:47,953 --> 00:24:49,120 NO CHOICE AT THAT POINT BUT TO 959 00:24:49,187 --> 00:24:51,223 DEFEND THEMSELVES. 960 00:24:51,289 --> 00:24:52,657 >> John: WELL, THAT'S A VERY 961 00:24:52,724 --> 00:24:53,859 DETAILED PICTURE PAINTED BY PALM 962 00:24:53,925 --> 00:24:56,294 BEACH POTATO HEAD THERE, BUT A 963 00:24:56,361 --> 00:24:58,096 FEW THINGS: FIRST, WHILE HE 964 00:24:58,163 --> 00:24:59,164 SOUNDS LIKE AN EYEWITNESS, HE 965 00:24:59,231 --> 00:25:01,466 WASN'T THERE. 966 00:25:01,533 --> 00:25:02,367 SECOND, VIDEOTAPE LATER REVEALED 967 00:25:02,434 --> 00:25:06,204 THAT THE STORY HE WAS TELLING 968 00:25:06,271 --> 00:25:06,938 WAS COMPLETE HORSESHIT -- POLICE 969 00:25:07,005 --> 00:25:08,807 SHOT MACDONALD WHEN HE WAS 970 00:25:08,874 --> 00:25:09,674 WALKING AWAY FROM THEM. 971 00:25:09,741 --> 00:25:10,442 BUT FINALLY, REPORTERS SHOULD'VE 972 00:25:10,508 --> 00:25:12,077 KNOWN TO TAKE ANYTHING THAT GUY 973 00:25:12,143 --> 00:25:13,478 SAID WITH A MASSIVE GRAIN OF 974 00:25:13,545 --> 00:25:15,547 SALT, BECAUSE PAT CAMDEN IS THE 975 00:25:15,614 --> 00:25:17,148 SPOKESPERSON FOR THE CHICAGO 976 00:25:17,215 --> 00:25:18,850 FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE, WHICH 977 00:25:18,917 --> 00:25:21,086 FUNCTIONS AS PART POLICE UNION, 978 00:25:21,152 --> 00:25:21,853 PART SPECIAL INTEREST LOBBY 979 00:25:21,920 --> 00:25:23,288 GROUP. 980 00:25:23,355 --> 00:25:24,689 HIS ONLY AGENDA IS TO PROTECT 981 00:25:24,756 --> 00:25:26,258 COPS. 982 00:25:26,324 --> 00:25:27,259 AND IT WAS WAY TOO EASY FOR THIS 983 00:25:27,325 --> 00:25:29,227 LIL MUSTACHIO'D WEIRDO TO HEAR 984 00:25:29,294 --> 00:25:30,462 THERE WAS A SHOOTING, DRIVE TO 985 00:25:30,528 --> 00:25:31,963 THE SCENE, JUMP IN FRONT OF 986 00:25:32,030 --> 00:25:33,365 CAMERAS AND GRAB CONTROL OF THE 987 00:25:33,431 --> 00:25:34,199 NARRATIVE. 988 00:25:34,266 --> 00:25:36,601 AND CAMDEN DOES THIS A LOT -- 989 00:25:36,668 --> 00:25:38,570 ONE ANALYSIS FOUND THAT IN A 990 00:25:38,637 --> 00:25:39,938 FOUR-YEAR TIMESPAN, HE PROVIDED 991 00:25:40,005 --> 00:25:41,306 AN INITIAL VERSION OF EVENTS FOR 992 00:25:41,373 --> 00:25:43,375 35 POLICE SHOOTINGS. 993 00:25:43,441 --> 00:25:45,577 AND IN 15 CASES, CRUCIAL ASPECTS 994 00:25:45,644 --> 00:25:46,645 OF HIS STATEMENTS WERE LATER 995 00:25:46,711 --> 00:25:48,280 PROVED TO BE FALSE OR 996 00:25:48,346 --> 00:25:51,316 MISLEADING. 997 00:25:51,383 --> 00:25:51,917 WHICH IS JUST WILD. 998 00:25:51,983 --> 00:25:53,518 IF YOU GET CAUGHT CHEATING AT 999 00:25:53,585 --> 00:25:55,620 ONE CASINO, THEY BAN YOU FROM 1000 00:25:55,687 --> 00:25:56,121 EVERY CASINO. 1001 00:25:56,187 --> 00:25:57,289 THIS GUY'S PEDDLED BULLSHIT TO 1002 00:25:57,355 --> 00:25:59,491 THE PRESS 15 TIMES, YET SOMEHOW 1003 00:25:59,557 --> 00:26:01,192 HIS PICTURE ISN'T PINNED BEHIND 1004 00:26:01,259 --> 00:26:02,560 EVERY NEWS DESK IN THE COUNTRY, 1005 00:26:02,627 --> 00:26:04,763 WITH THE WARNING "DO NOT ASK 1006 00:26:04,829 --> 00:26:08,400 THIS MAN ABOUT ANYTHING." 1007 00:26:08,466 --> 00:26:10,502 SO, SO, SO OFTEN, IT SEEMS LIKE 1008 00:26:10,568 --> 00:26:12,137 NEWS OUTLETS WOULD BE SERVING 1009 00:26:12,203 --> 00:26:13,138 THEIR COMMUNITIES MUCH BETTER IF 1010 00:26:13,204 --> 00:26:14,706 THEY WEREN'T QUITE SO TRUSTING 1011 00:26:14,773 --> 00:26:15,974 WHEN IT CAME TO WHAT POLICE TELL 1012 00:26:16,041 --> 00:26:17,008 THEM. 1013 00:26:17,075 --> 00:26:18,076 TO SEE A LOT OF WHAT I'VE TALKED 1014 00:26:18,143 --> 00:26:20,412 ABOUT TONIGHT IN ONE PLACE, TAKE 1015 00:26:20,478 --> 00:26:21,546 WHAT HAPPENED IN BROOKSIDE, 1016 00:26:21,613 --> 00:26:22,580 ALABAMA, WHERE A FEW YEARS AGO, 1017 00:26:22,647 --> 00:26:24,416 LOCAL NEWS WAS EXCITEDLY 1018 00:26:24,482 --> 00:26:25,684 REPORTING ON A NEW INITIATIVE 1019 00:26:25,750 --> 00:26:27,152 FROM THEIR POLICE DEPARTMENT, 1020 00:26:27,218 --> 00:26:28,520 WHICH "POLICE SAID" WAS GETTING 1021 00:26:28,586 --> 00:26:30,488 REAL RESULTS. 1022 00:26:30,555 --> 00:26:31,856 >> WE TELL YOU STORIES ALL THE 1023 00:26:31,923 --> 00:26:33,959 TIME ABOUT CRIME GOING UP, BUT 1024 00:26:34,025 --> 00:26:34,759 WE GOT SOME GOOD NEWS: THE TOWN 1025 00:26:34,826 --> 00:26:36,695 OF BROOKSIDE SAYS THEY'RE SEEING 1026 00:26:36,761 --> 00:26:37,796 CRIME GO DOWN. 1027 00:26:37,862 --> 00:26:39,597 >> BROOKSIDE IS NOT A BIG TOWN, 1028 00:26:39,664 --> 00:26:40,832 BUT ITS NARCOTICS INTERDICTION 1029 00:26:40,899 --> 00:26:41,433 TEAM? 1030 00:26:41,499 --> 00:26:43,134 THEY'VE BEEN BUSY. 1031 00:26:43,201 --> 00:26:43,902 >> ANOTHER DRUG BUST THIS 1032 00:26:43,969 --> 00:26:45,470 WEEKEND ON I-22. 1033 00:26:45,537 --> 00:26:47,105 >> AND THE BROOKSIDE POLICE HAVE 1034 00:26:47,172 --> 00:26:48,173 BEEN SO BUSY. 1035 00:26:48,239 --> 00:26:49,574 >> OUR NUMBER ONE GOAL IS TO NOT 1036 00:26:49,641 --> 00:26:50,709 PROSECUTE PEOPLE. 1037 00:26:50,775 --> 00:26:51,710 IT'S TO SAVE LIVES. 1038 00:26:51,776 --> 00:26:53,411 THAT'S WHY WE GOT INTO THIS. 1039 00:26:53,478 --> 00:26:54,079 WE WANT TO SAVE LIVES. 1040 00:26:54,145 --> 00:26:54,813 WE WANT TO KEEP OUR CITIZENS 1041 00:26:54,879 --> 00:26:56,081 SAFE. 1042 00:26:56,147 --> 00:26:58,116 WE WANT TO KEEP PEOPLE WHO ARE 1043 00:26:58,183 --> 00:26:58,883 COMING TO BROOKSIDE SAFE AND 1044 00:26:58,950 --> 00:26:59,951 ENJOY OUR TOWN. 1045 00:27:00,018 --> 00:27:00,986 >> John: ALL THAT COVERAGE IS 1046 00:27:01,052 --> 00:27:02,387 JUST SO WEIRD. 1047 00:27:02,454 --> 00:27:04,589 IT'S PART LOCAL NEWS FLUFF, PART 1048 00:27:04,656 --> 00:27:05,790 PROPAGANDA, AND SOMETHING 1049 00:27:05,857 --> 00:27:07,292 BORDERING ON A TOURISM AD FROM 1050 00:27:07,359 --> 00:27:09,361 OFFICER TEDDY RUXPIN THERE. 1051 00:27:09,427 --> 00:27:10,862 BUT THINK ABOUT IT, IT'S A BIT 1052 00:27:10,929 --> 00:27:12,964 STRANGE THAT ONE TINY TOWN IN 1053 00:27:13,031 --> 00:27:14,232 ALABAMA HAD SUDDENLY BECOME A 1054 00:27:14,299 --> 00:27:14,766 HOTBED FOR DRUG SMUGGLING, 1055 00:27:14,833 --> 00:27:16,768 RIGHT? 1056 00:27:16,835 --> 00:27:19,237 WELL, IT TURNS OUT, YES. 1057 00:27:19,304 --> 00:27:21,039 AND I WILL SAY, TO ITS CREDIT, 1058 00:27:21,106 --> 00:27:22,307 ONE LOCAL STATION DID DIG A 1059 00:27:22,374 --> 00:27:23,775 LITTLE DEEPER, AIRING A REPORT 1060 00:27:23,842 --> 00:27:25,143 ABOUT THE FACT A WEIRD AMOUNT OF 1061 00:27:25,210 --> 00:27:26,745 DRIVERS WERE QUESTIONING THE 1062 00:27:26,811 --> 00:27:27,379 TICKETS WRITTEN BY THAT POLICE 1063 00:27:27,445 --> 00:27:27,846 DEPARTMENT. 1064 00:27:27,912 --> 00:27:29,614 A STORY, INCIDENTALLY, THAT LED 1065 00:27:29,681 --> 00:27:31,016 THAT DEPARTMENT TO TELL 1066 00:27:31,082 --> 00:27:32,250 EMPLOYEES THAT ANYONE TALKING TO 1067 00:27:32,317 --> 00:27:34,986 THAT REPORTER WOULD BE FIRED. 1068 00:27:35,053 --> 00:27:36,821 BUT IT WASN'T UNTIL TWO YEARS 1069 00:27:36,888 --> 00:27:38,656 LATER THAT AN IN-DEPTH 1070 00:27:38,723 --> 00:27:39,791 INVESTIGATION FROM AL.COM 1071 00:27:39,858 --> 00:27:41,092 REVEALED WHAT HAD ACTUALLY BEEN 1072 00:27:41,159 --> 00:27:42,594 HAPPENING, THAT IS THAT 1073 00:27:42,660 --> 00:27:44,529 BROOKSIDE -- A TOWN OF JUST 1074 00:27:44,596 --> 00:27:45,196 1,200 PEOPLE -- WAS HAVING ITS 1075 00:27:45,263 --> 00:27:47,565 FINANCES ROCKET-FUELED BY 1076 00:27:47,632 --> 00:27:49,134 TICKETS AND AGGRESSIVE POLICING, 1077 00:27:49,200 --> 00:27:50,635 WITH BULLSHIT TRAFFIC TICKETS 1078 00:27:50,702 --> 00:27:51,302 BEING ISSUED AT A TRULY 1079 00:27:51,369 --> 00:27:52,771 RIDICULOUS RATE. 1080 00:27:52,837 --> 00:27:53,905 >> BROOKSIDE DRAGGED SO MANY 1081 00:27:53,972 --> 00:27:55,006 PEOPLE INTO COURT THAT POLICE 1082 00:27:55,073 --> 00:27:56,241 HAD TO DIRECT TRAFFIC ON COURT 1083 00:27:56,307 --> 00:27:57,642 DAYS. 1084 00:27:57,709 --> 00:27:59,044 MONEY FROM FINES AND FORFEITURE 1085 00:27:59,110 --> 00:28:01,713 SOARED MORE THAN 600% TO THE 1086 00:28:01,780 --> 00:28:02,981 POINT WHERE IT MADE UP HALF THE 1087 00:28:03,048 --> 00:28:04,516 TOWN BUDGET. 1088 00:28:04,582 --> 00:28:05,850 >> John: IT'S TRUE. 1089 00:28:05,917 --> 00:28:07,185 IT GOT TO THE POINT WHERE THE 1090 00:28:07,252 --> 00:28:09,254 POLICE DEPARTMENT WAS TAKING IN 1091 00:28:09,320 --> 00:28:11,756 $487 FOR EVERY MAN, WOMAN AND 1092 00:28:11,823 --> 00:28:12,991 CHILD, AND SPENDING IT ON, AMONG 1093 00:28:13,058 --> 00:28:14,492 OTHER THINGS, A SWAT TEAM, A 1094 00:28:14,559 --> 00:28:16,194 JAIL, A FLEET OF UNMARKED CARS, 1095 00:28:16,261 --> 00:28:20,732 AND TWO DRUG-SNIFFING DOGS -- 1096 00:28:20,799 --> 00:28:21,299 ONE OF WHICH THEY NAMED, AND 1097 00:28:21,366 --> 00:28:22,834 THIS IS TRUE, K-9 CASH. 1098 00:28:22,901 --> 00:28:25,770 HERE IS THAT DOG. 1099 00:28:25,837 --> 00:28:27,505 AND I WILL SAY, HE DOES LOOK 1100 00:28:27,572 --> 00:28:28,239 LIKE A K-9 CASH. 1101 00:28:28,306 --> 00:28:29,207 AND THAT'S NOT A COMPLIMENT. 1102 00:28:29,274 --> 00:28:30,742 BAD DOG. 1103 00:28:30,809 --> 00:28:32,110 BUT THE POINT IS, WHAT WAS 1104 00:28:32,177 --> 00:28:33,278 ACTUALLY HAPPENING IN BROOKSIDE 1105 00:28:33,344 --> 00:28:34,212 TURNED OUT TO BE A PRETTY FAR 1106 00:28:34,279 --> 00:28:35,513 CRY FROM THE INITIAL COVERAGE 1107 00:28:35,580 --> 00:28:37,215 OF, "HEY, GREAT NEWS, THIS SMALL 1108 00:28:37,282 --> 00:28:38,149 TOWN POLICE FORCE IS APPARENTLY 1109 00:28:38,216 --> 00:28:39,818 MIAMI VICE ALL OF A SUDDEN. 1110 00:28:39,884 --> 00:28:42,487 ANYWAY, NO FURTHER QUESTIONS." 1111 00:28:42,554 --> 00:28:44,489 AND THE THING IS, BY PRESENTING 1112 00:28:44,556 --> 00:28:45,423 POLICE UNCRITICALLY, YOU'RE NOT 1113 00:28:45,490 --> 00:28:46,524 JUST HELPING THEM DODGE 1114 00:28:46,591 --> 00:28:47,859 ACCOUNTABILITY -- YOU'RE GIVING 1115 00:28:47,926 --> 00:28:50,161 THEM A HUGE LOBBYING PLATFORM. 1116 00:28:50,228 --> 00:28:51,663 RIGHT NOW, YOU DON'T HAVE TO 1117 00:28:51,729 --> 00:28:53,398 LOOK FAR TO FIND COPS ON TV, 1118 00:28:53,465 --> 00:28:54,532 SUGGESTING THE FIX FOR ANY RISE 1119 00:28:54,599 --> 00:28:57,035 IN CRIME IS TO UNDO THE CRIMINAL 1120 00:28:57,102 --> 00:28:58,136 JUSTICE REFORMS OF THE PAST FEW 1121 00:28:58,203 --> 00:28:59,604 YEARS, AND TO GIVE THEM MORE 1122 00:28:59,671 --> 00:29:00,905 MONEY. 1123 00:29:00,972 --> 00:29:02,774 AND THIS CAN GET REAL RESULTS. 1124 00:29:02,841 --> 00:29:05,410 EVEN THE CURRENT RAINBOW 1125 00:29:05,477 --> 00:29:07,212 FENTANYL SCARE STARTED WITH A 1126 00:29:07,278 --> 00:29:08,680 DEA PRESS RELEASE, WHICH 1127 00:29:08,746 --> 00:29:10,582 HAPPENED TO DROP JUST AS 1128 00:29:10,648 --> 00:29:12,183 CONGRESS WAS IN THE MIDST OF 1129 00:29:12,250 --> 00:29:13,118 BUDGET NEGOTIATIONS. 1130 00:29:13,184 --> 00:29:14,786 EVERYONE PICKED UP THAT STORY, 1131 00:29:14,853 --> 00:29:16,654 AND WHAT DO YOU KNOW, LAST WEEK, 1132 00:29:16,721 --> 00:29:17,489 CHUCK SCHUMER ANNOUNCED HIS 1133 00:29:17,555 --> 00:29:19,424 INTENTION TO ALLOCATE NEARLY 300 1134 00:29:19,491 --> 00:29:21,192 MILLION MORE DOLLARS TO LAW 1135 00:29:21,259 --> 00:29:22,427 ENFORCEMENT, SO THEY CAN FIGHT 1136 00:29:22,494 --> 00:29:25,130 THE SCOURGE OF RAINBOW FENTANYL. 1137 00:29:25,196 --> 00:29:26,831 AND LOOK, I'M NOT SAYING ALL 1138 00:29:26,898 --> 00:29:27,866 CRIME REPORTING IS BAD. 1139 00:29:27,932 --> 00:29:28,500 THERE'S SOME INCREDIBLE COVERAGE 1140 00:29:28,566 --> 00:29:30,068 OUT THERE. 1141 00:29:30,135 --> 00:29:31,836 WE FEATURE IT ON THIS SHOW ALL 1142 00:29:31,903 --> 00:29:33,705 THE TIME, AND A LOT OF WHAT I 1143 00:29:33,771 --> 00:29:35,473 TOLD YOU TONIGHT, CAME FROM 1144 00:29:35,540 --> 00:29:39,577 GREAT INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING. 1145 00:29:39,644 --> 00:29:40,178 BUT THE DAILY CRIME BEAT, 1146 00:29:40,245 --> 00:29:40,812 WHETHER FROM LACK OF RESOURCES, 1147 00:29:40,879 --> 00:29:41,880 LACK OF SCRUTINY, OR LACK OF 1148 00:29:41,946 --> 00:29:42,747 FOLLOW-THROUGH, FAR TOO OFTEN, 1149 00:29:42,814 --> 00:29:43,381 TAKES POLICE AT THEIR WORD, AND 1150 00:29:43,448 --> 00:29:47,152 NOT AS AN INTEREST GROUP WHO 1151 00:29:47,218 --> 00:29:49,187 SHOULD BE TREATED AS SUCH. 1152 00:29:49,254 --> 00:29:50,121 SO, WHAT SHOULD HAPPEN HERE? 1153 00:29:50,188 --> 00:29:51,656 WELL, THE POLICE COULD CHANGE 1154 00:29:51,723 --> 00:29:52,624 THE WAYS THEY BOTH BEHAVE AND 1155 00:29:52,690 --> 00:29:53,992 COMMUNICATE. 1156 00:29:54,058 --> 00:29:55,126 BUT GIVEN THAT'S NOT GOING TO 1157 00:29:55,193 --> 00:29:57,562 HAPPEN ANYTIME SOON, IT 1158 00:29:57,629 --> 00:29:58,196 UNFORTUNATELY FALLS TO THE REST 1159 00:29:58,263 --> 00:29:59,097 OF US. 1160 00:29:59,164 --> 00:30:00,665 FOR NEWS OUTLETS, THEY COULD TRY 1161 00:30:00,732 --> 00:30:02,066 AND SNAP OUT OF THEIR AUTOMATIC 1162 00:30:02,133 --> 00:30:04,202 DEFERENCE TO POLICE. 1163 00:30:04,269 --> 00:30:05,303 WHICH IS ACTUALLY POSSIBLE -- 1164 00:30:05,370 --> 00:30:06,104 JUST WATCH WHAT HAPPENED WHEN A 1165 00:30:06,171 --> 00:30:08,306 POLITICAL WEB SERIES FROM THE 1166 00:30:08,373 --> 00:30:10,008 HILL INVITED ON A PUBLIC 1167 00:30:10,074 --> 00:30:11,075 DEFENDER TO DISCUSS THE CASE OF 1168 00:30:11,142 --> 00:30:11,776 JAYLAND WALKER, WHO WAS KILLED 1169 00:30:11,843 --> 00:30:13,178 BY POLICE AFTER FLEEING A 1170 00:30:13,244 --> 00:30:14,312 TRAFFIC STOP. 1171 00:30:14,379 --> 00:30:16,381 WATCH HER PUSH BACK WHEN THE 1172 00:30:16,447 --> 00:30:17,916 HOST SEEMS A LITTLE TOO EAGER TO 1173 00:30:17,982 --> 00:30:19,851 ACCEPT THE POLICE LINE. 1174 00:30:19,918 --> 00:30:21,119 >> THERE'S NO WORLD, NO TRAFFIC 1175 00:30:21,186 --> 00:30:22,353 INFRACTION, THE PUNISHMENT IS 1176 00:30:22,420 --> 00:30:23,621 DEATH, NOT A ONE, NEVER. 1177 00:30:23,688 --> 00:30:25,657 SO THERE'S NO REASON WHY EIGHT 1178 00:30:25,723 --> 00:30:26,691 OFFICERS SHOULD CHOOSE TO GO AND 1179 00:30:26,758 --> 00:30:28,426 SHOOT HIM TO DEATH. 1180 00:30:28,493 --> 00:30:29,327 >> I -- I GUESS I -- I JUST 1181 00:30:29,394 --> 00:30:30,094 DON'T HAVE A LOT OF SYMPATHY IN 1182 00:30:30,161 --> 00:30:31,429 THIS PARTICULAR CASE, ALTHOUGH I 1183 00:30:31,496 --> 00:30:31,930 DO -- 1184 00:30:31,996 --> 00:30:32,931 >> YOU DON'T HAVE A LOT OF 1185 00:30:32,997 --> 00:30:34,032 SYMPATHY IN THIS CASE WHERE HE 1186 00:30:34,098 --> 00:30:35,233 WAS SHOT 60 TIMES? 1187 00:30:35,300 --> 00:30:36,568 >> AFTER FLE -- AFTER LEADING 1188 00:30:36,634 --> 00:30:38,169 THE POLICE ON A HIGH-SPEED CHASE 1189 00:30:38,236 --> 00:30:39,837 AND RETURNING FIRE? 1190 00:30:39,904 --> 00:30:40,939 >> FIRST OF ALL, LET ME JUST SAY 1191 00:30:41,005 --> 00:30:42,240 THIS, THE POLICE, NO, LET'S -- 1192 00:30:42,307 --> 00:30:44,209 LET'S -- BECAUSE TOO OFTEN MEDIA 1193 00:30:44,275 --> 00:30:45,176 REPORTS ON WHAT ARE POLICE 1194 00:30:45,243 --> 00:30:46,477 STORIES AS THOUGH IT IS THE 1195 00:30:46,544 --> 00:30:48,179 ULTIMATE TRUTH. 1196 00:30:48,246 --> 00:30:49,948 WE SEE TOO MANY, TOO MANY 1197 00:30:50,014 --> 00:30:50,648 DISCREPANCIES FOR US TO CONS -- 1198 00:30:50,715 --> 00:30:52,383 CONSISTENTLY LEAN ON WHAT THE 1199 00:30:52,450 --> 00:30:53,418 POLICE SAY IS THE TRUTH. 1200 00:30:53,484 --> 00:30:54,452 >> ABSOLUTELY, I AGREE. 1201 00:30:54,519 --> 00:30:55,386 >> POLICE SAY, WHICH HAS NOT YET 1202 00:30:55,453 --> 00:30:56,621 BEEN SUBSTANTIATED OR 1203 00:30:56,688 --> 00:30:57,555 CORROBORATED -- THEY SAY THEY 1204 00:30:57,622 --> 00:30:59,524 BELIEVE THAT ONE BULLET MIGHT 1205 00:30:59,591 --> 00:31:00,358 HAVE COME FROM THE WINDOW. 1206 00:31:00,425 --> 00:31:00,959 THEY SAID -- THAT'S WHAT THE 1207 00:31:01,025 --> 00:31:01,259 SAY. 1208 00:31:01,326 --> 00:31:02,193 THEIR ARGUMENT IS MAYBE -- 1209 00:31:02,260 --> 00:31:02,827 >> RIGHT, WHO KNOWS IF THAT'S 1210 00:31:02,894 --> 00:31:03,127 TRUE? 1211 00:31:03,194 --> 00:31:03,895 >> EXACTLY. 1212 00:31:03,962 --> 00:31:04,829 BUT WHAT I DO KNOW IS THAT THEY 1213 00:31:04,896 --> 00:31:05,897 SHOT THIS BOY 60 TIMES FOR A 1214 00:31:05,964 --> 00:31:06,531 TRAFFIC INFRACTION, I KNOW THAT, 1215 00:31:06,598 --> 00:31:09,133 SO. 1216 00:31:09,200 --> 00:31:10,335 >> ALL RIGHT, WE'LL HAVE OUR 1217 00:31:10,401 --> 00:31:13,004 RISING PANEL JOIN US NEXT. 1218 00:31:13,071 --> 00:31:14,939 >> John: THAT IS AMAZING. 1219 00:31:15,006 --> 00:31:16,641 IF FOR NOTHING ELSE THAN TO 1220 00:31:16,708 --> 00:31:17,976 WATCH BABY RYAN SEACREST TRY TO 1221 00:31:18,042 --> 00:31:19,077 WRAP UP THE SEGMENT AFTER 1222 00:31:19,143 --> 00:31:20,578 GETTING HIS ASS ABSOLUTELY 1223 00:31:20,645 --> 00:31:22,647 HANDED TO HIM. 1224 00:31:22,714 --> 00:31:23,715 BUT WHILE IT'S INCREDIBLE TO 1225 00:31:23,781 --> 00:31:25,617 WATCH HIM, IN REAL TIME, 1226 00:31:25,683 --> 00:31:26,818 BACKTRACK FROM "I DON'T HAVE A 1227 00:31:26,884 --> 00:31:28,586 LOT OF SYMPATHY" TO "ABSOLUTELY, 1228 00:31:28,653 --> 00:31:29,220 I AGREE, WHO KNOWS WHAT'S 1229 00:31:29,287 --> 00:31:31,389 TRUE?," IT SHOULDN'T BE 1230 00:31:31,456 --> 00:31:32,757 INCUMBENT ON THAT WOMAN TO WALK 1231 00:31:32,824 --> 00:31:33,458 HIM TO THAT POINT. 1232 00:31:33,524 --> 00:31:34,125 SHE CAN'T BE ON EVERY LOCAL NEWS 1233 00:31:34,192 --> 00:31:39,163 SET. 1234 00:31:39,230 --> 00:31:39,764 SHE HAS A LIFE TO LIVE. 1235 00:31:39,831 --> 00:31:40,965 AND THERE ARE SMALL CHANGES THAT 1236 00:31:41,032 --> 00:31:41,899 MIGHT HELP REORIENT ALL OF OUR 1237 00:31:41,966 --> 00:31:42,967 THINKING. 1238 00:31:43,034 --> 00:31:49,140 SOME EXPERTS HAVE SUGGESTED 1239 00:31:49,207 --> 00:31:49,707 THAT, RATHER THAN GOING WITH 1240 00:31:49,774 --> 00:31:50,275 "POLICE SAY," OUTLETS SHOULD 1241 00:31:50,341 --> 00:31:50,842 CONSIDER GOING WITH "POLICE 1242 00:31:50,908 --> 00:31:51,509 CLAIM," INSTEAD WHICH SEEMS LIKE 1243 00:31:51,576 --> 00:31:51,843 A GOOD START. 1244 00:31:51,909 --> 00:31:52,944 AND TO BE FAIR, SOME OUTLETS ARE 1245 00:31:53,011 --> 00:31:53,711 LOOKING AT OTHER CHANGES. 1246 00:31:53,778 --> 00:31:55,647 SOME, LIKE THE "USA TODAY" 1247 00:31:55,713 --> 00:31:56,481 NETWORK, HAVE STOPPED PUBLISHING 1248 00:31:56,547 --> 00:31:58,516 MUG SHOT GALLERIES, SAYING THEY 1249 00:31:58,583 --> 00:32:01,152 FEED INTO NEGATIVE STEREOTYPES 1250 00:32:01,219 --> 00:32:02,787 AND ARE OF LIMITED NEWS VALUE. 1251 00:32:02,854 --> 00:32:04,922 WHICH THEY ARE. 1252 00:32:04,989 --> 00:32:05,523 AND "THE ARIZONA REPUBLIC" HAS 1253 00:32:05,590 --> 00:32:06,157 PLEDGED IT WILL FOLLOW ANY CASE 1254 00:32:06,224 --> 00:32:08,192 IT COVERS TO ITS CONCLUSION, IN 1255 00:32:08,259 --> 00:32:09,327 COURTS OR OTHERWISE. 1256 00:32:09,394 --> 00:32:11,062 WHICH HOPEFULLY WILL SAVE PEOPLE 1257 00:32:11,129 --> 00:32:13,031 LIKE DARCELL TROTTER FROM HAVING 1258 00:32:13,097 --> 00:32:13,631 TO MAKE PHONE CALLS LIKE THE 1259 00:32:13,698 --> 00:32:15,733 INCREDIBLY RESTRAINED ONE THAT 1260 00:32:15,800 --> 00:32:17,035 YOU SAW HIM MAKE EARLIER. 1261 00:32:17,101 --> 00:32:18,836 BUT THE LARGER CULTURAL CHANGE 1262 00:32:18,903 --> 00:32:20,238 MIGHT BE FOR OUTLETS TO 1263 00:32:20,305 --> 00:32:21,205 FUNDAMENTALLY RECONSIDER WHETHER 1264 00:32:21,272 --> 00:32:22,473 THE CRIMES THEY'RE COVERING ARE 1265 00:32:22,540 --> 00:32:24,475 ACTUALLY NEWSWORTHY. 1266 00:32:24,542 --> 00:32:25,476 BECAUSE THE TRUTH IS, NOT ALL 1267 00:32:25,543 --> 00:32:27,578 CRIMES ARE. 1268 00:32:27,645 --> 00:32:29,013 AND CRIME IS ONLY ONE SMALL 1269 00:32:29,080 --> 00:32:30,248 SLICE OF THE MUCH BIGGER PICTURE 1270 00:32:30,315 --> 00:32:31,683 THEY COULD BE PAINTING OF WHAT'S 1271 00:32:31,749 --> 00:32:33,084 HAPPENING IN COMMUNITIES. 1272 00:32:33,151 --> 00:32:34,686 THE FACT IS, BECAUSE CRIME NEWS 1273 00:32:34,752 --> 00:32:37,355 IS PUMPED AT US 24/7, THE WAY 1274 00:32:37,422 --> 00:32:41,659 IT'S REPORTED IS DEEPLY LINKED 1275 00:32:41,726 --> 00:32:42,293 WITH HOW IT'S BOTH PERCEIVED BY 1276 00:32:42,360 --> 00:32:43,394 THE PUBLIC, AND PROSECUTED BY 1277 00:32:43,461 --> 00:32:44,729 THE STATE. 1278 00:32:44,796 --> 00:32:46,431 AND LOOK, WE'VE SAID BEFORE, 1279 00:32:46,497 --> 00:32:48,533 LOCAL NEWS IS INCREDIBLY 1280 00:32:48,599 --> 00:32:50,368 IMPORTANT, WHICH IS WHY IT'S 1281 00:32:50,435 --> 00:32:53,304 CRITICAL THAT IT'S DONE WELL. 1282 00:32:53,371 --> 00:32:54,272 SO TO THE OUTLETS WHO DO PUT AN 1283 00:32:54,339 --> 00:32:56,174 UNDUE AMOUNT OF WEIGHT ON POLICE 1284 00:32:56,240 --> 00:32:57,942 STATEMENTS AND PRIORITIZE 1285 00:32:58,009 --> 00:33:00,378 SENSATIONAL CRIME COVERAGE OVER 1286 00:33:00,445 --> 00:33:01,446 COMPLETE PICTURES OF PUBLIC 1287 00:33:01,512 --> 00:33:02,547 SAFETY, IF I MAY, I'D LIKE TO 1288 00:33:02,613 --> 00:33:04,449 THROW IT OVER TO ONE OF YOUR 1289 00:33:04,515 --> 00:33:05,550 OWN. 1290 00:33:05,616 --> 00:33:06,884 >> SEE WHAT YOU'VE DONE? 1291 00:33:06,951 --> 00:33:08,319 I DON'T KNOW WHO YOU ARE. 1292 00:33:08,386 --> 00:33:10,088 I DON'T KNOW WHERE YOU ARE. 1293 00:33:10,154 --> 00:33:12,023 BUT YOU MAY WANT TO START 1294 00:33:12,090 --> 00:33:14,058 CHANGING YOUR WAYS. 1295 00:33:14,125 --> 00:33:15,059 >> John: EXACTLY. 1296 00:33:15,126 --> 00:33:17,762 AND NOW THIS. 1297 00:33:17,829 --> 00:33:20,064 >> AND NOW, ANOTHER INSTALLMENT 1298 00:33:20,131 --> 00:33:23,701 OF LOCAL NEWS BEAT POETRY FROM 1299 00:33:23,768 --> 00:33:26,971 NBC4 WASHINGTON'S PAT COLLINS. 1300 00:33:27,038 --> 00:33:30,274 >> THEY CALL IT DRIFTING. 1301 00:33:30,341 --> 00:33:31,709 BUT IT'S ANYTHING BUT THAT. 1302 00:33:31,776 --> 00:33:34,479 LOOK AT THE SKIDMARKS. 1303 00:33:34,545 --> 00:33:37,949 THEY GO ROUND AND ROUND AND 1304 00:33:38,015 --> 00:33:40,785 ROUND AND ROUND AND ROUND! 1305 00:33:40,852 --> 00:33:43,554 IT'S ENOUGH TO MAKE YOU DIZZY! 1306 00:33:43,621 --> 00:33:47,525 IN THIS PARK, THERE IS A BIKE, 1307 00:33:47,592 --> 00:33:48,559 THERE WAS A TRAPPING. 1308 00:33:48,626 --> 00:33:50,294 AND TONIGHT, ONE FOX IS IN 1309 00:33:50,361 --> 00:33:53,631 CUSTODY. 1310 00:33:53,698 --> 00:33:54,031 ♪ ♪ 1311 00:33:54,098 --> 00:33:58,369 IT HAPPENED WAY UP THERE. 1312 00:33:58,436 --> 00:33:59,537 WHAT COULD CAUSE SOMETHING LIKE 1313 00:33:59,604 --> 00:34:00,338 THIS? 1314 00:34:00,405 --> 00:34:02,240 THERE WAS NO EARTHQUAKE! 1315 00:34:02,306 --> 00:34:04,075 THIS IS SOMETHING LESS THAN AN 1316 00:34:04,142 --> 00:34:06,878 ACT OF GOD! 1317 00:34:06,944 --> 00:34:09,514 IT APPEARS TO BE A BIG SCRAPE 1318 00:34:09,580 --> 00:34:09,881 JOB! 1319 00:34:09,947 --> 00:34:12,049 ♪ ♪ 1320 00:34:12,116 --> 00:34:15,186 [APPLAUSE] 1321 00:34:15,253 --> 00:34:18,790 >> John: THAT'S OUR SHOW. 1322 00:34:18,856 --> 00:34:19,791 THANKS SO MUCH FOR WATCHING! 1323 00:34:19,857 --> 00:34:20,358 WE WILL SEE YOU NEXT WEEK! 1324 00:34:20,425 --> 00:34:21,959 GOOD NIGHT! 1325 00:34:22,026 --> 00:34:25,930 [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] 1326 00:34:25,997 --> 00:34:29,333 >> IT'S NOT JUST THE WORDS, IT'S 1327 00:34:29,400 --> 00:34:30,701 THE DRIVER SIDE MIRROR! 1328 00:34:30,768 --> 00:34:31,769 IT'S THE WINDSHIELD!