KAWPS The Podcast
by Jaffer Khan and Ashton Womack
A comedic police news podcast covering the under-reported kawp stories of the week, from the infuriating to the absurd. There’s a lot. Brought to you by Jaffer Khan (Redacted Tonight) and Ashton Womack (Daily Show). Join our Patreon for a weekly bonus episode with even more stories, only $5 a month: patreon.com/kawpsthepodcast
Episodes
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10/28/26: Your House Is Now My Home
The headline of the week is that Ashton has lunch with Conan O’Brien. The police headlines of the week are way worse. After discussing those, we talk about the deaths of Mary Alice Love, Koran Irvine, Kohen Wiley, and Ryan Hinton. We also discuss updates on the Matthew Farwell trial (alleged…
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10/21/26: Mayor Diddy
What a week of police news. After the roundup of headlines, we discuss week 1 of the trial of Matthew Farwell, the cop accused of murdering Sandra Birchmore, the woman he allegedly abused as a 15-year-old girl in the Explorer police youth outreach program. Then, its Montreal outlawing insulting...
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10/14/26: Dude, Where’s My Unmarked Car?
Sameer Naseem (Halal Cartels) is back! After going through the headlines of the week we discuss the deaths of Saveion McConnell, Persephone Berger, Emeshyon Wilkins, and Sandra Birchmore. Then, we talk about the ICE agent in Fresno who got so drunk Friday night he ends up getting shot and…
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10/7/26: Guns 4 Kids
Some new updates on some old nationals news. Bothom Jean and Roger Fortson were both black men who were killed by police while simply relaxing inside their own homes. We have news this week on both of the cops who killed these men. Our weekly headline roundup produces more of the same and more of...
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9/30/26: Burner? I Hardly Knew Her
We got a cop creating multiple burner accounts to fight online with an influencer he wrongfully arrested, DC police union against Flock cameras tracking police misconduct, Dallas women’s police union going to war against Dallas PD, NYPD turning a murderer away when he was trying to turn himself…
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9/23/26: Grand Theft Auto 5-0
We had to cut a little bit of the intro bc it got too good. We promise that won’t happen again. After another ridiculous and normal headline roundup, we update yall on some of our favorite cops. Then, we discuss Oklahoma cops refusing to return a man’s ATV, Milwaukee cops who refuse to stop...
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9/16/26: Flocking to Axon
What an episode! After a longer than average headline roundup, we discuss our main stories of the week. We got Detroit cops who can't stop shooting themselves, cities replacing their Flock ALPR cameras with Axon ALPR cameras, police drones chasing around innocent people, cops worried that WE…
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9/9/26: Wanted
Ashton's back. It's early, and the studio stinks. This week, we got a Houston cop shooting 14 shots at women outside of a club the boys used to perform stand-up comedy at. Followed by the story of Houston cop Gerald Goines, one of the craziest police corruption stories you've never heard of. Then...
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9/2/26: A Swing and a Miss
Very happy to have special guest Sameer Naseem (Halal Cartels Podcast) on the show. We discuss Pennsylvania police taking some adorable little girls to court for breaking a swing chain, Georgia cops pursuing an old man for picking up $30 from the ground at Wal Mart, North Carolina cops forcing...
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8/26/26: Broke a Leg
We talk about Memphis, Flock planning to use even more invasive AI, cops misusing Flock even when they're not even trying to, cops pressing charges on a kid because they did such a bad job trying to arrest him they injured themselves, and the shocking killing of the elderly and deaf Gregory Kase....
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8/19/26: Stairway To Hell
Another one. This time we start with Jaffer and Ashton resuming their argument about UFOs, except now Ashton has watched a documentary (The Age of Disclosure). After this is finally put to rest (for now), they turn to the police. After updating y'all on the cop who was planning a mass shooting in...
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8/12/27: Who Flock’d Ya?
The boys started a bit off the rails on this one. Ashton and Jaffer discuss UFOs, grills getting punched out in Houston, and eventually the police news of the week. After another normal insane week of police headlines, they dive into some more interesting stories of the week: A Tennessee...
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8/5/26: Snitches Get Stitches
Ashton and Jaffer had a fun weekend together and provide a spoiler-free discussion of the new Spider-Man movie and also Israel's relations with Armenia. Then, after going through the headlines, the boys focus in on the thrilling breaking story of the LAPD cop facing 13 years in jail after…
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7/22/26: Flock! It’s not just for cars!
The boys drop in for an early recording this week (Friday instead of Sunday) but luckily for us all, the cops worked extra hard in a shorter amount of time to give us more than enough horrifying material to work with for an episode. First, we have a fun one: cop attempts to shoot dog, misses…
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7/15/26: Birds of a Feather Get Flocked Together
It finally seems we're hitting a critical mass when it comes the police's new Flock ALPR cameras. Communities are having town halls, city council meetings, and even going rogue and tearing the cameras down themselves. This is because in the short time police have had access to these camera...
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7/8/26: Chief Sugar Daddy
We got a fun ("fun"?) one for y'all. After discussing Jaffer's horrific injury, the boys go through the police headline roundup of the week, followed by a slew of new stories. First, a police chief responds to a sugar daddy request on Facebook. One thing leads to another and he's hit with murder...
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7/1/26: Hank “Walter White” Schrader
Ashton can't put eye drops in his eyes and has trouble swallowing pills. Can he call himself an adult? After going through the headlines of the week, Jaffer and Ashton discuss four specific stories: a New Orleans cop beating up a podcaster who was critical of him (yikes), the DEA in Albuquerque...
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6/24/26: Ocean’s One
What a week of police news. After the roundup of police misconduct headlines, we dive into a very wide array of stories. We got a Michigan cop who can't seem to stop robbing trading card stores, a cop famous for abusing the vulnerable with feces gets promoted, an Ohio city retires its robot cop,...
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6/17/26: Horseplay With A Deadly Weapon
The Knicks won the title in five games. Unfortunately, the police were still busy committing crimes, so we had to record another episode. This week on KAWPS, we kick things off with an especially packed police misconduct headline roundup before digging into several major stories from around the...
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6/10/26: Something Fishy
Cops did a bunch of crazy stuff this week: - Utah cops go to war for a CEO of stolen Legos - Louisville cop fatally shoots unarmed, completely naked man (RIP Martin Nitzken Jr.) - Cop gets arrested after pulling his gun on a fellow cop for microwaving fish - Arkansas cop has to resign after…
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6/03/26: Dyin’ Gosling
Another insane week of police news: - Arkansas cop caught on video running over baby geese - Texas cops have been brutalizing school children since Uvalde - Virginia cop points his gun at teens having fun after prom - Pennsylvania cop gets no punishment for hitting children with his car…
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5/27/26: Commander Girl Boss
We got a Denver police commander who’s the craziest boss you’ve ever seen, an Arizona sheriff running for Congress while running amok cheating on his Mormon wife, Texas cops arresting a woman for posting videos of their towns dirty water supply, a Georgia cop who lives an elderly disabled couple...
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5/20/26: Party in the Evidence Room
DISCLAIMER: We don't have any inside knowledge on whether or not the cop this episode centers on was lying or not about his overdose, we are simply making fun of the news for not providing any skepticism on a very suspicious story, and acknowledging the many occasions when experts have had to…
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5/13/26: Cyberhacked!
So much to talk about this episode. Jaffer and Ashton are in tears talking about the Detroit boomer cop who can't seem to stop accidentally posting explicit photos and videos on Facebook, denying he did it (and denying all his accusers - separate issue). We got the San Francisco DA refusing to...
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5/6/25: Innocent Until Proven Gay
This week we got SPECIAL GUEST CO-HOST BOBBY CONDON! We talk about an NYC police chief's lawyer arguing that his client cannot be guilty of his sex crimes because he's not gay. We also got a mother finally freed from jail after posting on Facebook about the cop who killed her son (RIP Richard...
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4/29/26: Gotta Catch Em All
Alright so we had a bunch of scamming cops this week: fake police trading card fund raisers, visa fraud schemes, PIT maneuver insurance frauds, multiple DWI schemes including locking up sober drivers and letting go drunk drivers. And of course, we can't forget the latest FLOCK hellscape and the...
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4/22/26: Off The Hinge
What a week of police news. We got an LA cop who was caught swiping on dating apps while actively in a standoff with a gunman standing just feet away, we got the body camera footage released of a St. Louis cop fatally shooting a teenager in the back of the head, we got SF cops kidnapping an...
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4/15/26: Marry Magdalene
this week in POLICE NEWS, we got a Dallas cop selling his wife's services to other cops (and it's not the first time they've been caught), Louisville cops killing a woman experiencing a mental health crisis, an April Fool's prank gone horribly wrong, yet another cop attacking high school students...
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4/2/26: ICE Pack
This week we got a sick and tired Todd Lyons, a California sheriff running for office while seizing ballots, and Phoenix cops getting off without a consequence after framing peaceful protestors as affiliated with a gang that they completely made up. In our Patreon we’ll be talking about a…
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3/25/26: Afroman Wins
The Afroman verdict, ICE volunteers, verdict on Breonna Taylor cops, and more
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3/18/26: The (Anti) Nanny State
Afroman vs. the Cincinnati police, cops using faulty AI and faulty drug testing kits to ruin the lives of our grandmothers, a drug dealing DARE cop in New York, and the tragic killing of Alex Lamorie
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3/4/26: Attack with a deadly snowball
A woman with a missing hand being falsely accused of a fake crime, a lying cop getting off scot-free, a cop faking 911 calls to get back with his ex, cops attacking high school students, a jury finally convicts a Chicago cop accused of framing multiple men, and NYPD survives a snowball attack.
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2/18/26: Big Uncle Is Watching You
This episode covers ICE hypocrisy, police surveillance in schools, and Denver’s police drone program. We break down a CBP supervisor charged with harboring an undocumented immigrant, new reporting showing police using school camera databases to assist ICE, and a Denver case where a resident...
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2/11/26: [Butt] Dial 911
Ashton and Jaffer start out the show reading the police-related headlines of the week and talk some updates on couple previously discussed stories. As for the main stories, there's lots to talk about this week. First, ICE agents are starting to publicly express anger about their jobs, from a lack...
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2/4/26: Artificial Evidence
We got a banger for ya'll this week with special guest co-host Mycal Dede joining Jaffer. After another insane headline roundup, we start with commentary on the ICE killing of Alex Pretti and the sentencing of the cop who killed Sonya Massey. Then, we dive into the two newest examples of police...
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1/21/26: Free John Pork
This week, a cop in LA felt victimized by his local Starbucks barista, who so cruelly drew a pig onto the officers cup, prompting the sheriff to get involved. Although it could have simply been a barista who liked drawing brainrot memes. Then we dive into other recent cases of cops making victims...
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1/4/26: A Desire To Be Left Alone
This episode examines how police accountability actually works in the U.S. — and why it so often fails. We discuss the tragic death of Renee Good, the first officer to stand trial for the Uvalde school shooting, the legal reality that cops are not required to protect the public, and a new law...
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1/7/25: Child’s Play (Cop Fights A Child In A Pool, Cops Use AI To Turn Themselves Into Frogs, More)
Police departments are increasingly relying on AI to write official reports — and this week, one of those systems produced a report claiming an officer turned into a frog after audio from The Princess and the Frog contaminated the file. We break down how and why police agencies are adopting AI...
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12/24/25: The Secret Filing Cabinet
This week we had a school cop pulling a gun on an innocent special needs student, ICE hiring real-life and AI bounty hunters, Chicago police protecting a cop abusing and threatening a female cop, more on Chicago police targeting legal black gun owners, and Vallejo police getting caught with a...
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12/17/25: Funeral Crasher
We got a cop being rewarded for sexually harassing his colleague, new revelations on the cop who quote, accidentally killed his partner in Chicago, the alleged Antifa member currently locked up for transporting artwork and zines, a DEA agent caught working with the Cartel, and the apparent debate...
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12/10/25: Kash Rules Everything Around Me
Today we’ll be talking about the most recent fiascos surrounding FBI director Kash Patel, the NYPD Commissioner apologizing to Zohran Mamdani, a drunk SWAT Team member showing up to a school shooting, New Jersey cops being paid millions of dollars while not working due an ethics investigation…
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12/3/25: Put A Ring On It
This week we’ll be talking more about Kash Patel and his girlfriend, Alabama police arresting a 61-year-old lady for protesting, the LAPD cop robbing a teenager of his crypto, the city of Chicago going into debt to pay off their police settlements, the unique settlement reached behind the cop who...
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11/26/25: Ouch
This week we got the verdict in the trial for the officer who killed Ta’Kiya Young, the pregnant woman who was shot while attempting to drive away, creepy cops breaking into children’s bedrooms, getting caught in child sex trafficking stings, and pretending to be ICE agents to get revenge on…
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11/19/25: Patrolling While Intoxicated
This week we got the conclusion of the first trial of the San Antonio cops who shot and killed Meliessa Perez from outside her living room window, a former cop and convicted predator running for public office, cops driving drunk and arresting the sober, cops stealing overtime and piling up…
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11/12/25: The Worst Part Of Waking Up
This week we got a cop suing a family after killing their dogs, towns in Washington turning their FLOCK ALPR cameras off, FLOCK suffering security breaches, a new terror plot the FBI foiled and probably created, police mistake a woman’s instant coffee for heroin, and the tragic deaths of four...
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11/5/25: Corporate Espionage
This week we’ll be talking about a police chief commuting to his California police station from Idaho, a cop ignoring a murder call to get pizza, the police’s role in SNAP benefits being pulled, Kash Patel using the FBI jet to watch his girlfriend perform, multiple new cases of police misusing...
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10/29/25: Flexed Arm Hang
This week we’ll be covering ICE’s problems with new recruits failing their exams, physical tests, and background checks, cops mistaking a teenager’s bag of chips for a gun, Miami’s new automated robo-cop car, a cop convicted of stealing tax-payer money gets to keep his pension, new video a...
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10/22/25: ACAB-radabra!
Cops evicting the wrong person from their apartment, a cop refusing to call for help as a 5-year-old girl has a seizure, FLOCK getting into the audio surveillance business, ICE arresting a cop in Chicago, and the start of the trial of the three San Antonio officers charged with the murder of...
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10/15/25: Officer Jimmy Kimmel
This week we got a former cop posting a Charlie Kirk meme that got him arrested for threatening a mass shooting at a school, Apple internally categorizing ICE agents as a oppressed class, more damning details on the Texas cops using FLOCK cameras to track down a woman who got an abortion, and…
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10/8/25: 1 Star
Updates on the cops at the Parkland and Uvalde school shootings, ICE’s latest plans of mass surveillance, ICE’s latest plans to deport children, and we have fun with the latest copaganda piece from the New York Post. On the Patreon: Apple and Google removing apps meant to fight against ICE, and…
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About this show
A comedic police news podcast covering the under-reported kawp stories of the week, from the infuriating to the absurd. There’s a lot. Brought to you by Jaffer Khan (Redacted Tonight) and Ashton Womack (Daily Show). Join our Patreon for a weekly bonus episode with even more stories, only $5 a month: patreon.com/kawpsthepodcast
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