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TAYA GRAHAM: Hello. My name is Taya Graham and welcome to the Police Accountability Report. Remember, this show has a single goal: to hold one of the most powerful institutions in the country, policing, accountable. To do so, we go beyond just the individual actions of police and look at the systemic, imperative, and political alliances that give police, at times, troubling power over our lives. In fact, in one of our last shows when we were joined by former Washington, DC detective Trevor Hewick, my reporting partner Stephen Janis asked him this question that comes up often when the police seem incapable of policing themselves: Is systemic police corruption in Baltimore the result of a few bad apples, or the system which bolsters it? Let’s watch the exchange.
TREVOR HEWICK: I didn’t like that.
STEPHEN JANIS: Yeah.
TREVOR HEWICK: I didn’t like that.