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S4 E9: American Empire

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The Office of Public Safety

i think it's really important to look at what comes with us offers of help. One example is something called the office of public safety, which was kind of like this us. Led international police training programme. Over the course of 12 years they distributed 200 million in arms and equipment to police in forty seven countries. They also sent advisers to train over one million rank and file policemen around the world. So public safety didn't really mean protecting people. In many cases, it meant protecting authoritarian governments from their people who were fighting for racy. This reminds me that all politics comes with difficult ethical decisions. Especially consider in that, you know, we are where we are, and things are what

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