Crime Reporting: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

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Published on October 10, 2022

John Oliver discusses the outlets that cover crime, the incentives that drive them, the flawed sources they rely upon, and an alternative name for Miss Piggy.

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19 comments

  • madarab37 1 year ago

    The rainbow fentanyl scare is more urban legend and stupid than the razor blades in apples myth.

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  • JB 1982 1 year ago

    Our “police” are nothing but an authoritarian cult.

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  • Lenny Jagroe 1 year ago

    America and most Americans are so corrupt and racist its their legacy these European Americans thought they could get away with it butt they forget technology. Amd now they are f…..d and everyone can see how corrupt these racist lying police and politicians are .SHAME ON YOU AMERICANS

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  • Paul TheSkeptic 1 year ago

    That smacks of all those acid tattoo conspiracy theories that were so popular in the 80’s on the tale of the Satanic panic. Since acid kind of looks like one of those Cracker Jacks temporary tattoos, the idea was that the “pushers” made it that way so little kids would take it, then they’d be addicted. As if that’s how anything worked. First of all, drug dealers aren’t desperately trying to increase their potential sales number by creating new clients. Trust me. There’s no shortage of those. Every Halloween since forever has had parents warned to check the candy. Even though nothing has ever happened. No razor blades in apples. No poisoned candy. Missing cats. It was all a big lie. Nothing was EVER found.

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  • D-RAS S 1 year ago

    Damn powerful friends

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  • Brian Vasquez 1 year ago

    All it proves is a large majority of my fellow Americans are fucking scared morons. Once you do a real drug once you realize all the lies you’ve been told your whole life. What follows is being able to look at people who you used to believe and respect with complete contempt.

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  • Niels Jensen 1 year ago

    Technically correct is always contextually incorrect. The George Floyd case was technically correct that he had a medical emergency. The context was that it was the inability to breathe caused by external pressure to the throat caused by a knee to the neck.

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  • Nathan Black 1 year ago

    its always strange how much american TV Leans into crime. In Germany crime only makes the news if its something out of the ordinary. Something like a really bad murderer or some insane heist. But other than that you wouldn’t see crime reporting in regular TV News.

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  • Roan Brand 1 year ago

    F Cs

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  • Thomas Peterson 1 year ago

    I agree with Jon. You can’t trust anything that comes from main stream media

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  • Jaden Cutcher 1 year ago

    Is no one else going to talk about John tongue-twisting himself with concussion seazon?

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  • Michael Buzanowski 1 year ago

    Crime is going down because law enforcement is told not to report it especially in democratic areas the lack of enforcement is malfeasance and taxation without representation is tyranny

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  • SEAZNDragon 1 year ago

    I’m surprised Joe Gamaldi didn’t make an appearance here. He was a former NYPD cop who moved to the Houston Police Department. He was the former head of the main Houston Police Department union and the current national VP for the Fraternal Order of Police. Due to these roles he appeared a lot on local news whenever a HPD officer was injured or killed in the line of duty. But his last couple of times were egg on the face for him. (Disclosure: I’m a deputy with the sheriff’s office but I never liked Gamaldi’s style.)

    -There was the Harding Street case where a narcotics team did a no knock raid on a couple. There was a shoot out and the team shot and killed the couple. Gamaldi came out and railed against anti-cop sentiment which I thought was overkill. There was some head scratching when the warrant described the couple having an arsenal and piles of drugs- thus the no knock- but only a few grams of marijuana and a revolver was recovered. When the department couldn’t find the informant who gave the intel they realized the raid was based on false info. Now there is local murder case with the cops, a federal case, and a bunch of the lead cop’s old charges getting vacated- including a petition by the DA for a pardon for George Floyd.

    -After this two officers were shot a domestic disturbance call. One of them was a sergeant who died just days away from retirement. Gamaldi railed against the DA’s office for not charging the shooter when officers came out days before for a domestic disturbance call and telling the cops to give back the shooter’s gun. I thought this was weird as the DA’s office here pretty willing to take a DV charge especially when a gun is involved. Then local news found another officer had ran from the scene when the shooting started and got ahold of the police report from the earlier case. Turns out in the earlier case no gun was found on the shooter (although bullets were found on him) and I could tell from the report the officer didn’t take the shooter’s wife’s concerns seriously. That officer was the second one shot.

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  • Raman Deep Vashisht 1 year ago

    7:04
    Indians and Nigerians are less than 25% of the world population but more than 80% of online scammers.
    A particular community, race or ethnicity may be more susceptible to particular crime. Why can’t liberals get this simple thing

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  • Niels Jensen 1 year ago

    While it’s correlational the haircut of that young-looking police officer is the same as a common one amongst people with Fascistic or neo-Nazi beliefs.

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  • Bob Steckenreiner 1 year ago

    well done

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  • blackmike79 1 year ago

    FYI drug dealers don’t give drugs away for free. Defeats the purpose of being a drug dealer

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  • LNSS 1 year ago

    Man I was excited about this episode & it was a major disappointment! John & the #LastWeekTonight team do great research & tie it into the show. Missed a huge opportunity on tying the racial disparities between violent crime & white collar crime in reporting, crime rate, prosecution, economic impact, & enforcement spending, etc

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  • Happy 1 year ago

    The media protects the power structures on purpose, none of this is random. They know what they are doing when they only take the fake police side of the story.

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