Police in the US are making their own true crime podcasts
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Re: Police in the US are making their own true crime podcasts
#2Good in theory, but having police with axes to grind airing inaccurate information seems ripe for abuse.
From the article;
>Chadwick had been charged and pleaded not guilty, but not tried - yet the podcast made no use of the word "alleged" and called the millionaire a "murderer".
Yeah, like that.
Re: Police in the US are making their own true crime podcasts
#3Good in theory, but having police with axes to grind airing inaccurate information seems ripe for abuse. From the article; >Chadwick had been charged and pleaded not guilty, but not tried - yet the podcast made no use of the word "alleged" and called the millionaire a "murderer". Yeah, like that.
The abuse is far more likely to come from the audience than the police. The true crime fanbase tends to have mental health issues.
Re: Police in the US are making their own true crime podcasts
#4Good in theory, but having police with axes to grind airing inaccurate information seems ripe for abuse. From the article; >Chadwick had been charged and pleaded not guilty, but not tried - yet the podcast made no use of the word "alleged" and called the millionaire a "murderer". Yeah, like that.
The abuse is far more likely to come from the audience than the police. The true crime fanbase tends to have mental health issues.
The police are the ones who can lock you in jail.
Re: Police in the US are making their own true crime podcasts
#5Good in theory, but having police with axes to grind airing inaccurate information seems ripe for abuse. From the article; >Chadwick had been charged and pleaded not guilty, but not tried - yet the podcast made no use of the word "alleged" and called the millionaire a "murderer". Yeah, like that.
In several countries that would be illegal, but the police would never investigate themselves.
Re: Police in the US are making their own true crime podcasts
#6Good in theory, but having police with axes to grind airing inaccurate information seems ripe for abuse. From the article; >Chadwick had been charged and pleaded not guilty, but not tried - yet the podcast made no use of the word "alleged" and called the millionaire a "murderer". Yeah, like that.
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Re: Police in the US are making their own true crime podcasts
#7Although I can't fully articulate this my intuition says this is an exceptionally bad idea.
Something about the administrators of state power capitalizing on their execution of it for fame.
I'd probably want that banned?
Re: Police in the US are making their own true crime podcasts
#8Good in theory, but having police with axes to grind airing inaccurate information seems ripe for abuse. From the article; >Chadwick had been charged and pleaded not guilty, but not tried - yet the podcast made no use of the word "alleged" and called the millionaire a "murderer". Yeah, like that.
The abuse is far more likely to come from the audience than the police. The true crime fanbase tends to have mental health issues.
But the police are official represeatives of the government and it holds more weight when they say "they are guilty even if court said they are not" vs if a random private individual says it.
Re: Police in the US are making their own true crime podcasts
#9Good in theory, but having police with axes to grind airing inaccurate information seems ripe for abuse. From the article; >Chadwick had been charged and pleaded not guilty, but not tried - yet the podcast made no use of the word "alleged" and called the millionaire a "murderer". Yeah, like that.
In several countries that would be illegal, but the police would never investigate themselves.
Defamation is a civil thing though, isn't it?
Re: Police in the US are making their own true crime podcasts
#10Good in theory, but having police with axes to grind airing inaccurate information seems ripe for abuse. From the article; >Chadwick had been charged and pleaded not guilty, but not tried - yet the podcast made no use of the word "alleged" and called the millionaire a "murderer". Yeah, like that.
The abuse is far more likely to come from the audience than the police. The true crime fanbase tends to have mental health issues.
On the one hand, it's one of the most popular genres out there. 84% of the U.S. population age 13+ are "True Crime consumers":
> https://www.edisonresearch.com/the-true-crime-consumer-repor...
But it's absolutely true that the internet-based tribe called the "TCC" -- the true crime community -- is a hotbed of severe mental illness and moral depravity. It's a very young-skewing demographic, too. You can think of it as Fandom for killers. I monitor my son's internet activity in large part to ensure that he's not exposing himself to it, and I would view any exposure to the TCC as the reddest of red flags.