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Culpable

Introducing: The Set

Culpable

Tenderfoot TV & Resonate Recordings

True Crime, Personal Journals, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.722.3K Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2023

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

It’s the crack era. The most violent time in New York City history. The NYPD is fighting a losing battle and instead of protecting the city from drug dealers, some police officers have become them. This is the never-before told, first-person documentary of the biggest police corruption scandal in NYPD history and the investigation that uncovered it all. From Audacy Originals and Zak Levitt, the Emmy, Peabody, and NY Press Club Investigative Journalism Award winning creator of Root of Evil, Gangster Capitalism, and Relative Unknown. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey Copable listeners, Dennis Cooper here, host of Copable.

0:11.2

I'm really excited to introduce you all to a new documentary series called The Set,

0:17.0

created by Zach Levit, the same creator behind the hit podcast, Root of Evil, Gangster

0:22.5

Capitalism, and Relative Unknown.

0:25.6

The set tells the inside story of the biggest police corruption scandal in New York City's

0:30.4

history and the investigation that uncovered it all.

0:34.1

It was the height of the crack era in the most violent time in New York City's history,

0:38.7

but instead of protecting New Yorkers from drug dealers, some police officers became

0:43.2

them.

0:44.6

When a commission was formed to investigate police misconduct, it discovered Harlem's

0:48.8

30th precinct had been overrun with corruption, but even worse, the NYPD had been turning

0:55.2

a blind eye.

0:56.8

In total, 33 officers were arrested and convicted of corruption and the precinct became known

1:03.0

as the dirty 30.

1:05.0

In the set, we hear never before told stories shared directly by the dirty cops who were

1:09.4

convicted, the undercover internal affairs officer who blew the whistle, and the investigators,

1:15.2

prosecutors, and police commissioner who exposed the truth about what happened when the world's

1:19.5

largest police department failed to police itself.

1:23.4

If you like this preview, be sure to search for the set available now wherever you get

1:29.3

your podcast.

1:30.3

Um, you know what, after fucking 30 some odd years, you would think that like you gotta

1:39.7

get over it, but apparently not.

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