Snitch City Podcast: Episode 3 | Chief Oliveira

Meet New Bedford’s police chief, Paul Oliveira. He’s had a hand in both of the stories we’ve already heard. And the Spotlight Team’s reporting shows there’s a dark backstory behind Oliveira’s rise to the top of the department. Oliveira wrote the playbook on using informants. In this episode, a former New Bedford narcotics cop who worked alongside the chief for nearly two decades agrees to go on the record about everything he’s seen… and taken part in.

Watch episode 1 here: https://youtu.be/SvpSTrgSOqw
Watch episode 2 here: https://youtu.be/e4flQ8co3CY

CHAPTERS:
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00:00 Prologue – Welcome to Snitch City
00:31 There’s a new top cop in New Bedford
01:55 Paul Oliveira and the New Bedford police department
02:30 Meet Bobby Richard and Paul Oliveira
03:38 Speak of the devil, there he is
04:14 The key to Oliveira’s early success
05:16 Richard and Oliveira in the 90s
07:11 The war on drugs and the NBPD drug unit
08:28 The role of informants in policing
09:05 Paul Oliveira and informants
10:47 The 1997 raid
12:55 Oliveira’s historic drug bust
13:50 Oliveira makes a deal
15:35 A turning point for Richard
16:35 Mid-episode break
16:57 The narcotics world is shadowy
17:56 Paul Oliveira “reinvents the wheel”
18:25 A set-up case
20:18 A license to deal
21:30 NBPD corruption
22:23 Richard distances himself from Oliveira
24:00 Oliveira and the city comment
25:45 How police using information from C.I.s
26:00 Another police officer comments
27:25 The FBI
29:00 Looking forward
30:00 End credits

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