After being unceremoniously fired from the police department, Laurie fights to get her job back. But tackling the sexism embedded within the department has far-reaching consequences. Run Bambi Run is an Apple Original podcast, produced by Campside Media. Listen and follow on Apple Podcasts. https://apple.co/RunBambiRun
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This is what I would call kind of a classic Milwaukee bar.
You know, the furnishings, it's very clean in here.
There's little beer signs on the walls and funky plastic lights.
Chris Radish, Laurie's biographer, is showing me around a bar called tracks.
It's a popular cop hangout, and in the seventies, it had a reputation.
I used to drive by here on my way to college.
It looked scary in here.
And then there were all these rumors about this was the place to go for drugs.
This was a big drug hangout, and wild, and I didn't have time for that nonsense.
Okay, so why are Chris and I at tracks, this sketchy cop bar just west of the Milwaukee river?
Well, first of all, this location becomes a big part of Loris story.
And it all started one night.
I can just imagine her in some sort of fabulous pantsuit, maybe one shoulder off in that ship brown color that was popular in the late seventies.
Strange that Lori was hanging out with cops, even though shed just been fired.
But she was 22.
This was her whole social scene.
Everybody's cracking off color jokes, ordering rounds of cheap drinks, jaeger shots, white Russians.