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Episode 181: Interview: Former FBI Agent, Steve Moore (with Amanda Knox)

“It's a fundamental misunderstanding of what police do and what motivates crime”: An Interview with Steve Moore By Amanda Knox with Christopher Robinson From 1983 to 2008, Steve Moore served as a Special Agent for the FBI. After retiring, he chronicled his experiences in his memoir, Special Agent Man: My Life in the FBI as a Terrorist Hunter, Helicopter Pilot, and Certified Sniper (Chicago Review Press, 2012). He’s now a law enforcement contributor for CNN, and a professional pilot. I reached out to Moore to better understand how law enforcement officers are responding to calls to defund and abolish the police and...

Episode 180: COVID-19 in Prison: Week by Week — Part 6

CRIME STORY’S Sean Smith continues his weekly analysis of the news stories aggregated in CRIME STORY DAILY related to COVID-19 and our carceral system. By reconsidering early reporting on the crisis in the light of subsequent developments, CRIME STORY hopes to point out trends in the narrative of COVID-19 and the prisons. You can find links to each of Sean’s analysis pieces here. This article covers the week beginning April 19.  WEEK 6 (April 19-25) On Monday, April 20, COVID-19 related deaths nationwide totaled 41,575. During the day’s White House pandemic briefing, President Donald Trump cast about for silver linings. “One is too...

Episode 179: Interview: Joshua Hoe, Advocate for the Excarcerated (with Amanda Knox)

“Crimes are a moment in time. They’re not a person.”: An Interview with Joshua Hoe By Amanda Knox with Christopher Robinson Despite the current rise in wide-spread public support for criminal justice reform, advocacy aimed at humanizing people who have committed violent crimes ― particularly sex crimes ― remains largely taboo and politically unpalatable. The First Step Act, the first restorative criminal justice reform to pass federally in over 40 years, excluded those convicted of violent and sex offenses from sentencing reduction and rewards for taking part in rehabilitation programs. Meanwhile, calls for more aggressive policing and more punitive responses to...

Follow Up on My Interview with Attorney General Barr (Week 45)

This week at crimestory.com, I followed up on my interview with U.S. Attorney General William Barr, Amanda Knox continued her series of interviews; Sean Smith contributed another chapter in our series on the way that the story of Covid-19 in prisons has unfolded in the press; and we published another update from the Three Strikes Project. On Monday, we presented Amanda's interview with Shon Hopwood, who has made the journey from serving time in federal prison for bank robbery to prominent law professor and criminal justice reform advocate. On Tuesday, Sean Smith continued his week by week analysis of the news stories aggregated in Crime Story Daily...

Episode 178: Opinion: Kary Antholis on His Interview with Attorney General William Barr: Following Up on the One Year Anniversary

Crime Story launched in August of last year with my interview with Attorney General William Barr. June 5, 2020 marked the one year anniversary of our recording that interview. The themes that came up in the conversation with the AG (implicit bias in law enforcement, Black Lives Matter protests, anger at injustices, criminal justice reform) remain stunningly resonant.  Here is how I introduced the interview on the crimestory.com website and on the Crime Story Podcast: Attorney General William Barr and I met when he was on the Board of Directors of Time Warner. I was working for HBO and its sister...

Episode 177: Interview: John Rappaport on Strategies for Ending Systemic Racism in Policing (with Amanda Knox)

Bargaining Away Procedural Protections: An Interview with John Rappaport In these past five years of freedom I’ve enjoyed since I was definitely acquitted by the Italian Supreme Court, I’ve spent much of my time imagining and advocating for a justice system that is actually just. One with better protections for both victims of crime and victims of the criminal justice system. One that relies less on imprisonment and punishment to address society’s ills. A justice system which abandons unreliable and harmful tools like the Reid interview technique or the polygraph. I’ve been doing my best to educate everyone around me...