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At a time when we\u2019re debating where policing is going, we\u2019re going to tell you where the police came from. Guided by Peabody award-winning host Chenjerai Kumanyika, Empire City will provide the \ufb01rst accessible narrative history of the American police and its place in popular culture. Who are the police? And why were police departments created in the \ufb01rst place? To \ufb01nd answers, we\u2019re going to tell the origin story of the largest police force in the world: The NYPD. We begin in the late 1800\u2019s at a moment when the entire police force was on trial. It\u2019s the biggest corruption scandal in the history of the NYPD, and it all plays out like a high stakes courtroom drama. What follows is the action-packed account of how the NYPD got to this point and what happened next. It involves Black abolitionists \ufb01ghting slave patrols in the courts of Gotham; two rival police forces duking it out for power at City Hall; the origins of the true crime genre; and how the NYPD spread their tactics worldwide.

Listen to Empire City wherever you get your podcasts: Wondery.fm/Empire_City.

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