Mac Muir
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167 appearances
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first heard May 2025
last heard May 2025
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Oh, well, there was a juncture where 70, 80% of the NYPD was first generation Irish or from Irish.
No, so in practice, you find that, right, there's a cultural heritage that comes over post Irish potato famine.
where there is an understanding, we argue, that English common law, the law from which they came, is meant to steal land, that it's a cheap deal.
And ultimately, you have a lot of corruption rackets that follow, where once the Irish are empowered with the strength of this law derived from English common law, that they end up manipulating it for financial gain.
And that you have a battle between Protestant and Catholic values in the department as it's shaped and that you also have echoes of what's been going on in Ireland, which is anti-colonial methods to avoid being destroyed.
And we we really delve into that secrecy.
We delve into that.
the brotherhood mentality that you need to have to survive from the Irish perspective and how that's been reshaped into not an anti-colonial tool in its present form.
We don't see it like that.
I think that everyone needs brotherhood in a traumatic environment.
And I think that there were things reinforced in policing.
And there's just the reality of policing that you're going to see a lot of violence.
You're going to see the people in their worst days of their lives.
And I think that's been shaped.
One of the things we really go into, if you're going to look at it from the mafia perspective, as you put it, is the importance of women in policing and how in 2020, we really failed to identify that as a key issue, that about 3% of leadership in American police departments are women, about 14% overall of American law enforcement are women.
And that they change that dynamic really significantly.
And that's been well studied.
And it's something that needs to be focused on in the future and that we all have the capacity to change.
Well, you have to understand that a significant amount of this is a financial exercise, right?
There's racism in American society that absolutely bleeds into all aspects of government in one way or the other.
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