Murder & Scandal in Prohibition Portland — When Police Managed the Black Market
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.
Author: JD Chandler and Theresa Griffin Kennedy
This episode explores Murder & Scandal in Prohibition Portland by JD Chandler and Theresa Griffin Kennedy as a systems-level analysis of how Prohibition, police power, municipal corruption, and organized vice influenced behavior, belief, and institutional outcomes.
By focusing on incentive architecture rather than personalities or isolated scandals, the episode shows why these systems persist — and how they connect to larger political, economic, racial, and labor…
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