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What’s a ‘Normal’ Amount of Law Enforcement?

by Elizabeth Joh

• January 16, 2015

It looks like NYPD patrol officers are back to work after their unofficial but widely acknowledged work slowdown. Now things are getting back to normal. But what is normal?

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Life Un-DACAmented

by Life of the Law

• October 17, 2017

Nearly two years ago on January 26, 2016, Life of the Law presented Un-DACA-mented, a report on the Obama Administration’s DACA Program, or Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. The program, begun in 2012, offered undocumented…

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Episode 117: Gift and Curse of Music – Transcript

by Ian Coss

• September 5, 2017

HOST: One of the basic jobs of every government is to protect property rights. So if you own a piece of land, or you build a house – no one can just come and take…

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Episode 115: Prosecuting Discretion – Transcript

by Marylee Williams

• August 8, 2017

HOST INTRO: The word law has its roots in old English. It basically means to regulate and it basically has the same root meaning today. When we say law, we share this idea that we’re…

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Episode 108: Unequal Protection: Part 1 – Transcript

by Sarah Marshall

• May 3, 2017

HOST INTRO: America is a country plagued by racism. Culturally, socially, economically. But what about in the courts? 30 years ago, Warren McCleskey, a black man on Georgia’s death row, took proof to the US…

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Episode 104: Heroin Town – Transcript

by Sam Fenn

• March 8, 2017

HOST INTRO: Heroin is illegal in Canada. And just like in the United States many doctors and treatment centers treat heroin addiction by providing a legal alternative, such as methadone. But methadone treatment doesn’t always…

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Death on a Dairy – Transcript

by Nancy Mullane

• September 9, 2016

HOST INTRODUCTION: What do you eat for breakfast? I like a bit of steel cut oatmeal with warm milk and yogurt with fresh fruit and when I sit down to eat I rarely think about…

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Juggalos – Transcript

by Kirsten Jusewicz-Haidle

• February 23, 2016

Groupies have always been a part of the music scene. The Grateful Dead and the Deadheads. Beatles and Beatlemania. Juggalos like music called horrorcore rap and the main group they follow is the Insane Clown…

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UnDACAmented Transcript

by Jonathan Hirsch

• January 30, 2016

It’s been 20 years since Congress has passed comprehensive immigration reform in the US. So, in 2012 President Obama took matters into his own hands. His administration signed a memo granting undocumented immigrants who came…

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Bit of an Edge

by Ashley Cleek

• November 3, 2015

Jury Duty. It’s one of the pillars of our democratic society. If you are charged with a crime, a jury of your peers will determine your innocence or your guilt. But who selects the jurors?…