Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Introducing Deep Cover: The Truth About Sarah
23 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
If you enjoyed Spotlight: Snitch City, you might be interested in the new season of Deep Cover from ...
UPDATE: Case Dismissed
06 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Reporters Dugan Arnett and Andrew Ryan are back in court to learn the fate of a case that has spanne...
Introducing The Burden
02 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Today, we’re sharing the first episode of the 2025 Ambie Award-nominated investigative podcast The...
EPISODE 5: “All this for nothing”
01 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Two former New Bedford informants tell shocking stories. The first: a woman who didn’t even know s...
EPISODE 4: Cops & Robbers
25 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
When Frank "Rizzo" Simmons was a big-time drug dealer in New Bedford in the '90s, he went toe-to-toe...
EPISODE 3: The Chief
18 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Meet New Bedford’s police chief, Paul Oliveira. He’s had a hand in both of the stories we’ve a...
EPISODE 2: Blind Trust
11 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Spotlight reporter Dugan Arnett receives a desperate phone call from an informant who’s now in pri...
EPISODE 1: Officer Pastillas
11 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
On the docks of New Bedford, Massachusetts, whispers about a rogue police officer harassing fisherme...
Trailer
26 Feb 2025
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In a nation addicted to drugs, police across the country have become addicted to informants. Nowhere...
Trailer Two
18 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In just a few weeks, the Boston Globe’s new podcast will drop. Informants are the nameless, facele...
Coming Soon… Snitch City
09 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Confidential informants are the backbone of America’s war on drugs. But the way police use them ha...