Society & Culture
TRIGGER WARNING: This episode touches on explicit descriptions of sexual assault and abuse, attempted murder, prison abuse, mental health issues, racism and police brutality, and other sensitive subjects. Please listen with discretion and with your own emotional health in mind. As we close out our Serial Killers series, we decided that we should focus on something that rarely gets attention in the True Crime community. Oftentimes, police officers are seen as the bumbling inconveniences at worst and heroes at best when it comes to murder cases. But the truth of the matter is: the police are no one's friend. Murders get solved and people go to prison, but there is no justice under a system that disproportionately targets, wrongfully imprisons, and kills Black people. The 1989 Central Park Jogger case and the story of the Exonerated 5 illustrates just that.