Hi everyone, it's Jed. If you've enjoyed listening to Gone South, I'd like to tell you about

a new documentary series called The Set by Zach Levit, the creator of Root of Evil,

Gangster Capitalism, and Relative Unknown. The set tells the true story of the biggest

police corruption scandal in New York City history, and like Gone South, it's told by

the people who lived it, dirty cops, whistleblowers, investigators, prosecutors, and police

brass, including the former commissioner of the NYPD. The set brings you inside an NYPD

precinct overrun with corruption, the investigation that brought it to light, and the turf war that

almost blew it up. Ultimately, the set is the story of what happened when the world's

largest police department failed to police itself. Here's the trailer. If you like what

you hear, please listen and follow The Set, wherever you get your podcasts.

But Zach, I mean, the story should be told. From Odyssey Originals, I'm Zach Levit, the creator

of Root of Evil, Gangster Capitalism, and Relative Unknown. And this is a story about a time that New York City

would like to forget. Dangerous times in New York City. The biggest city in America is on the

roads. On the streets of New York, it's called crack, and the deals go down quickly. It was the most

violent year in the city's history, the height of the crack era. There weren't no opportunities.

You got into the game back then, yo, you had no choice. But if you move in Coke, you making

money and overflip, baby. Entire neighborhoods have been transformed into open air drug markets.

But for some criminals brazen enough, even the dealers became Marx. Was it a common practice to break

into apartments, which were suspected drug locations? Yes. Why would you break into these apartments?

For money, for drugs, whatever was in there. Why aren't you afraid of getting caught at doing this?

No. Who's going to catch us? What a police. We Americans have an endless fascination with

police stories. Well, there's a police story being told here in New York that is so shocking, you couldn't make it up.

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