Youngstown was known as a steel town and everybody had an image of a steel town as being a rough, rotten, no-good town.

But nobody ever sang the glories in the virtues of Youngstown. There was always singing the bad things that took place in Youngstown.

Hi, I'm Mark Smirling, the creator of Crime Town in the Janks, and I'm back with a new series. It's called Crooked City.

And this first season will visit Youngstown, Ohio.

Crime time, bomb town, all town. Murder town. Murder City, USA.

I think people were kind of proud of it, that we had that reputation. The mob in Youngstown. It's like they were always there.

I was never in the mafia. That wouldn't get me wrong. They're all good friends of mine.

I put a package on his desk saying, here's 25,000. Go kill this fucking guy.

Something is crazy.

Lots of murders, bombings, but that's the way it is.

Youngstown's biggest employers were the steel mills in the mob. But when the mills closed, only the mob was still hiring.

And that's when a hometown hero rose from the ashes of the blast furnaces. Sheriff Jim Traffkin.

I want to look at each and every camera because I'm stone cold nuts and I'm going to say it. The mob should get out of Youngstown.

He's a likable guy. He's a champion at a working class. I'm sure he could do it without anybody.

We're going to come down and knock your house apart.

When a sheriff comes to power in a place like this, there's always questions about, has anyone offered you a broad?

No, not at this stage.

Prentice in your mind, Jimmy. You're the fucking sheriff.

Now look, I did take your money. Now work it out. I don't want no problem.

How long did it take for you to go? That's Jim Traffkin.

Do you feel that it would be appropriate at this time that you step down?

So the powerful influential people in his valley who want me out. Here's my statement. Go and fuck yourself.

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