I May Have Listened to My Last Wrongful Conviction Podcast

Episode • Dec 12, 2023 • 14m

As you might have surmised, I listen to a lot of podcasts. I used to do a podcast recommendation of every episode of my own podcast. While True Crime isn’t my top genre, sometimes it can satisfy the itch for an involving, multi-layered mystery. There’s not always a solution or resolution (which I do not find satisfying) but the journey there is usually very compelling. There are a lot of great shows beyond Serial – which may have kicked off the popularity of this genre. I’ve gotten into stories about corruption (Dead End, Trump Inc), drugs (The 13th Step, Document), theft (Last Seen, Believe in Magic), and, of course, murder (Bone Valley, In the Dark, Suspect). I believe there’s a sub-genre in the murder True Crime scene – Wrongful Conviction.

And while I’m not sure I’m ready to swear off True Crime podcasts or even murder themed True Crime podcasts, I do think I’m done with the Wrongful Conviction podcasts. They just make me so angry! They are infuriatingly full of cops railroading young people into confessions or hiding evidence or obscuring facts. It is enraging. And now I can’t listen to one without shouting, “Don’t talk to the police!” – at the show. As if I could prevent the inevitable injustice that’s coming by persuading the person not to talk to the police. It’s so bad I feel like the whole genre should be called, “Don’t talk to the police.” Now, until my friend showed me this video I did not know how important it was to NOT talk to the police. I sort of thought, “Well, should I ever be in a position where the police want to talk to me, I should do my best to be helpful, to tell them what they need to know!” Nope. That is the wrong idea. Very little good can come from talking to the police. The police will tell you, if they’re trying to keep you out of trouble, not to talk to the police.

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This is Episode 380

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Song: Don't Talk to the Police by Emily Rainbow Davis, with structural help from Scott Ethier

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