A PODCAST ABOUT ACCOUNTABILITY
Tearing down the blue wall that protects abusers.
Broken Badge is a podcast about domestic abuse within the law enforcement community — and the urgent need for awareness, accountability, and change.
WHY THIS PODCAST EXISTS
An issue that hides in plain sight.
Broken Badge examines a difficult and often hidden issue: domestic abuse within police departments and public-safety communities.
Through storytelling, interviews, and reporting, the podcast aims to help listeners understand the warning signs, the institutional failures, and the opportunities for reform. This is not a true-crime show. It is a series about what happens when the systems built to protect people fail the people closest to them — and about what accountability could look like instead.
Range cited by studies from the 1990s that surveyed officers about violence in their own homes—figures that remain widely quoted and widely debated.
Women in the U.S. who experience severe physical violence from an intimate partner in their lifetime, across every community.
There is no national database tracking domestic violence cases involving law enforcement officers. The absence of the number is part of the story.
A note on the numbers. Research in this area is limited, dated, and contested. Broken Badge cites sources directly in each episode and on The Issue. All figures shown here are placeholders for the production team to review, verify, and source before launch.
START HERE
Episode 1 — The Call That Wasn't Logged
A dispatcher takes a call from an address she recognizes. What happens over the next six minutes — and the eleven years after — is where this series begins.
The Call That
Wasn't Logged
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THE SERIES
Featured episodes
Four Episodes tracing one story — and the pattern it belongs to.
Episode 1 · 42 min
The Call That Wasn't Logged
Episode 4 · 51 min
What Accountability Could Look Like?
Episode 2 · 38 min
Who Do You Call When He Is the Call?
Episode 3 · 45 min
The File Room
"I didn't call the police. I couldn't. The police were already in my house — they were sitting at my kitchen table every night."
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TAKE ACTION
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Understand the warning signs and the barriers.
Why reporting is harder in these households. What departments can change. What support actually looks like for the families involved.
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⚠️ If you or someone you know is in immediate danger, call emergency services.
If you need confidential support, contact a qualified domestic violence hotline or local advocacy organization. Broken Badge is a podcast — we are not an emergency service and cannot respond to crisis contact.
RESOURCES
Help exists. It's specific, and it's confidential.
We've collected vetted national organizations, safety-planning guidance, legal information, and support built specifically for public-safety families — including the situations where calling a local department isn't a safe option.
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