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Episode 75. The Philadelphia Wire.

Welcome to Philadelphia.

At the time of this investigation, it was 1989 to 1998.

More specifically, welcome to the corner of North Eight Street in Allegheny Avenue,

an impoverished neighborhood in the north of the city. Your guide, special agent, duty Tyler, FBI.

It's the 3100 block of North Eight Street and it's a tight little neighborhood and it's not a big street.

When English Quakers founded Philadelphia in the late 17th century,

they dubbed it the city of brotherly love.

300 years later, around 8th and Allegheny, at least, the word fraternity was usually prefixed by criminal.

So there were shootings on the block, drug dealers are targeted for theft because people know they have a lot of money there or for the drugs.

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