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To Catch a Predator gave us our public conception of what a "sex offender" is. How wrong was it? And how much damage has that misrepresentation caused?
2024-09-10 19:02:59 +0000 UTC View PostContent Warning - CSA
Ryan Shields is an Assistant Professor in the School of Criminology and Justice Studies at UMass Lowell, approaching criminal justice issues from a public health point of view.
I asked him to walk me through the research on child sex abuse and how to prevent it—as opposed to the concepts put forth in To Catch a Predator.
This was the se...
2024-09-10 02:23:48 +0000 UTC View PostMasai Lord is a founding partner of Lord Law Group, specializing in civil rights, criminal defense, and employment discrimination.
I chat with him about the concept of entrapment, as well as his general thoughts on To Catch a Predator's legality.
This conversation is a bit winding, but there's a lot of interesting nuggets in there!
2024-09-10 01:50:46 +0000 UTC View Posthttps://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-lists/best-tv-episodes-of-all-time-1235090945/
2024-09-04 22:26:27 +0000 UTC View Postjohn walsh is a hypocrite and america's most wanted is a dumb tv show
2024-08-20 21:01:39 +0000 UTC View PostHey everybody!
Another month, another mailbag! Ask me anything!
I'll post the link here as always but I'll be live on Thursday 8/15 @ 5pm Pacific so submit your questions before then...
LINK: https://youtube.com/live/j-3mYzeEPGQ?feature=share
“What are you watching?” is pretty much the automatic question I get when I tell people what I do for a living.
With the stress of the last two months I haven’t gotten to watch as much TV as usual, but I do have some thoughts on some shows! I’ve also included content warnings for shows that need them, so you can see those beneath each title! These are in alphabetical order this ti...
2024-08-05 21:58:42 +0000 UTC View Postwell that was certainly a movie!
did a little light reading once we finished, including these Guardian articles I'll link below where Ian Fleming talks about how Pussy Galore was meant to be a lesbian and that she “only needed the right man to come along and perform the laying on of hands in order to cure her psycho-pathological malady”.
I can't remember who said it felt ...
2024-08-05 21:58:09 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone! I'll be going live at 5pm Pacific tonight (in about 25 minutes) to watch Goldfinger for the first time. This was recommended by our little community here and I hope you'll all join me to watch along. I'll upload a VOD version of this stream as well.
Goldfinger is a 1964 2024-08-01 23:37:25 +0000 UTC View Post
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Why did The Beef have to become The Bear?
2024-07-26 17:02:12 +0000 UTC View PostHey everybody!
In a recent mailbag That One French Guy suggested looking into James Bond, and honestly it was the first time I'd considered 007. They've been kind enough to put together a short list of films to watch, and I think it'd be fun if we watched/streamed it together as we have for Law & Order and Blue Bloods.
Here are the 4 options they've provided (I hav...
2024-07-26 03:16:38 +0000 UTC View Postwhat do liberals mean when they say "i condemn political violence"?
2024-07-19 22:51:50 +0000 UTC View PostHey everybody!
Another month, another mailbag! Ask me anything! If you need topics, my next video is going to be about The Bear and then after that a copaganda episode about Chris Hansen and To Catch a Predator. So why don't you have a seat and ask me some stuff!
I'll post the link here as always but I'll be live on Monday 7/8 @ 5pm Pacific so sub...
2024-07-03 18:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post“What are you watching?” is pretty much the automatic question I get when I tell people what I do for a living.
With the stress of the last two months I haven’t gotten to watch as much TV as usual, but I do have some thoughts on some shows! I’ve also included content warnings for shows that need them, so you can see those beneath each title! These are in alphabetical order this ti...
2024-07-03 03:26:44 +0000 UTC View Post
between trump's convictions and alito and thomas being alito and thomas, a lot of people are losing faith in the justice system. but i think that's kind of the goal.
sorry i forgot my pop filter on my microphone and that my eye is red from allergies.
2024-06-22 22:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostHey everybody!
Oh Boy it's been A MINUTE:
ASK ME ANYTHING!
ASK ME EVERYTHING! ASK ME THINGS! DON'T MAKE ME COME UP WITH QUESTIONS MYSELF—THEY'LL BE WEIRD!
I'll post the link here as always but I'll be live on Friday 6/7 @ 5pm Pacific so submit your questions before then...
LINK: 2024-06-04 16:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone,
There was a lot of bonus content for this Cops/On Patrol: Live: PD:: video so I just wanted to make a little post that puts everything in one place!
How Reality Cop Shows make us LESS SAFE [Ad-Free]: https://www.patreon.com/posts/105270010?pr=true
Conve...
2024-06-04 04:46:47 +0000 UTC View Post![How Reality Cop Shows make us LESS SAFE [Ad-Free]](https://img5.illustratorsleak.com/storage/3/qc/in/dbda34-019e8d39-3569-7bc0-a035-ce70858a98d5.jpg)
In 2020, despite all of the popular support for changes to the police, we thought we might have to settle for the small win of getting "Cops" and "Live: PD" canceled.
4 years later, both shows have risen from the dead. Cops is currently airing its 36th season and Dan Abrams's new show "On Patrol: Live" is a ratings juggernaut. Do these shows provide a check on the police? Or are they just...
2024-05-31 17:51:25 +0000 UTC View Post"People seem to think it's a really accurate, real-time representation of what is happening on a typical night of policing"
Emma Rackstraw (Harvard) is a PhD economist and researcher who recently published a study of Cops, Live: PD, and On Patrol: Live. The excellent paper dives into the ways these shows impact viewer perceptions of policing and how the presence of cameras quantifiably ch...
2024-05-11 18:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostHere's the upload from last week's Blue Bloods watch-along! Sorry for the delay!
"Jaime goes under cover with a deadly human trafficking ring; Danny and Baez investigate a homicide connected to Darryl Reid, Danny's old partner; Frank grapples with whether to publicly support Mayor Chase on a policy decision."
2024-05-03 18:27:57 +0000 UTC View PostSean Campbell is an investigative journalist living in New York City, and I called him up to ask him about his reporting about the return of reality cop shows (and how they never left).
Here's his article in Slate: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/11/reality-tv-co...
2024-05-03 18:27:47 +0000 UTC View Post“What are you watching?” is pretty much the automatic question I get when I tell people what I do for a living.
With the stress of the last two months I haven’t gotten to watch as much TV as usual, but I do have some thoughts on some shows! I’ve also included content warnings for shows that need them, so you can see those beneath each title!
X-Men ...
2024-05-02 22:50:51 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone! I'm trying to do more watch-along livestreams this year and we're going to keep going with the first episode of the final season of Blue Bloods, titled "Loyalty." I'll be watching for the first time right along with you guys but here's the logline from Google:
"Jaime goes under cover with a deadly human trafficking ring; Danny and Baez investigate a homicide conn...
2024-04-19 21:31:17 +0000 UTC View Post
where i've been.
2024-04-12 20:54:53 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone,
I recently had a death in the family so this month is going to be a little light in terms of bonus content.
Thank you for your patience <3
2024-03-11 23:12:52 +0000 UTC View Post“What are you watching?” is pretty much the automatic question I get when I tell people what I do for a living.
I don’t have time to do full conversations on everything I’m watching but here are some stray thoughts on everything I’ve watched in the last month. I’ve also been requested to include content warnings for shows that need them, so you can see those beneath each title...
2024-03-04 22:49:15 +0000 UTC View PostHey everybody!
In case you missed it—The SECOND PART OF the Law & Order episode is available for you beautiful people so let's hit any and all questions:
ASK ME ANYTHING!
I'll post the link here as always but I'll be live on Monday 2/26 @ 5pm Pacific so submit your questions before then...
In the second part of this Law & Order episode, we look at how the franchise distorts even more of your rights, including the way the show handles exculpatory evidence, the Fourth Amendment, and that pesky thing called free speech.
The title might change, but enjoy this ad-free version my beautiful patrons. It's currently age-restricted but hopefully that will be cleared up before we ...
2024-02-22 01:05:27 +0000 UTC View Post
maybe this is controversial idk
2024-02-21 01:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey hey party people,
In case you missed my livestream watchalong, here's the video! I'm going to be trying to do more of these so keep your eyes out if you want to join in live!
2024-02-14 03:32:46 +0000 UTC View Post