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Speaker 1: What's up, y'all?
00:00:00
Speaker 2: How you doing? I'd like to introduce you to a new documentary series called The Set, created by Zach Levitt, the same created behind the hit podcast Root of Evil, gangst The Capitalism, and Relative Unknown. The Set tells the inside story of the biggest police corruption scandal in New York City history and the investigation that uncovered it all. It was the height of the crack era and the most violent time in New York City's history, but instead of protecting New Yorkers from drug dealers, some police officers became them. When a commission was formed to investigate police misconduct, it discovered Harlem's thirtieth Precinct had been overrun with corruption, but even worse, the NYPD had been turning a blond eye. In total, thirty three officers were arrested and convicted of corruption, and a precinct became known as the Dirty thirty. In the Set, we here never before told stories shared directly by the dirty cops who were convicted, the undercover internal affairs officer who blew the whistle, and the investigators, prosecutors and police commissioner who exposed the truth about what happened When the world's largest police department failed to police itself. If you like this preview, be sure to search for the set available now wherever you get your podcast.
00:01:08
Speaker 3: You don't what if the fucking thirty somewhat is You would think that, like you gotta get over it, but apparently not. I just I'm not a bad guy.
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Speaker 2: Man.
00:01:22
Speaker 3: I made a mistake and I fucking went down a wrong heads and I'm not a bad guy. But Zach, I mean, the story should be told.
00:01:38
Speaker 1: From Odyssey originals. I'm Zach Levitt, 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.
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Speaker 4: Dangerous times in New York City, the biggest city in America, is on the roads.
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Speaker 3: On the streets of New York. It's called crack and the deals go down quickly.
00:02:01
Speaker 1: It was the most violent year in the city's history, the height of the crack era.
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Speaker 2: There were no opportunities. You got into the game back then, Yo, you had no choice.
00:02:12
Speaker 1: But if you move in coke, you making money.
00:02:14
Speaker 2: Hand over flip baby.
00:02:16
Speaker 1: Entire neighborhoods have been transformed into open air drug markets, but for some criminals brazen enough even the dealers became marks. Was it a common practice to break into apartments which we suspected drug locations?
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Speaker 3: Yes?
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Speaker 4: Why would you break into these apartments.
00:02:34
Speaker 1: For money, for drugs, whatever it was in there? Weren't you afraid of getting caught at doing this? No? Who's going to catch us?
00:02:46
Speaker 4: 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.
00:02:57
Speaker 1: The New York City Police Department was being a secret. Instead of locking up drug dealers, some cops were out on the streets competing with them.
00:03:09
Speaker 3: I would suit up in my uniform and you're going out of fucking patrol. What are we going to do tonight? We're gonna want some drug dealers, and I know how to do it really well.
00:03:26
Speaker 1: But even worse, the NYPD knew and allowed it to happen.
00:03:30
Speaker 3: They saw their role as protecting the department, not rooting out corrupt cops.
00:03:37
Speaker 1: A special commission was formed to investigate the police department itself, and what it uncovered would shake the city to its foundation. It was a banana republic, precinct operating in the City of New York.
00:03:51
Speaker 2: It was unbelievable in New York City tonight, a major scandal for the nation's largest police force.
00:03:58
Speaker 1: This is the inside story of the Buggas police corruption scandal in NYPD history. At the beginning and the investigation that uncovered at all. We told them that we wanted them to wear a wire. They only got him on a few things. They didn't get him on every time. And he said, okay, all told for the first time by the people who lived in did you consider yourself a rap?
00:04:22
Speaker 2: I save my soul, just like everybody else does.
00:04:26
Speaker 3: I'm not a big guy man, but I can't explain it. And I loved being that dirty motherfucker.
00:04:36
Speaker 1: Welcome to the set an Odyssey Originals documentary podcast series. Listen and follow on the Odissey app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your shows. The Fucked Up, Well Fucked Up, The bomb Man
Speaker 1: What's up, y'all?
00:00:00
Speaker 2: How you doing? I'd like to introduce you to a new documentary series called The Set, created by Zach Levitt, the same created behind the hit podcast Root of Evil, gangst The Capitalism, and Relative Unknown. The Set tells the inside story of the biggest police corruption scandal in New York City history and the investigation that uncovered it all. It was the height of the crack era and the most violent time in New York City's history, but instead of protecting New Yorkers from drug dealers, some police officers became them. When a commission was formed to investigate police misconduct, it discovered Harlem's thirtieth Precinct had been overrun with corruption, but even worse, the NYPD had been turning a blond eye. In total, thirty three officers were arrested and convicted of corruption, and a precinct became known as the Dirty thirty. In the Set, we here never before told stories shared directly by the dirty cops who were convicted, the undercover internal affairs officer who blew the whistle, and the investigators, prosecutors and police commissioner who exposed the truth about what happened When the world's largest police department failed to police itself. If you like this preview, be sure to search for the set available now wherever you get your podcast.
00:01:08
Speaker 3: You don't what if the fucking thirty somewhat is You would think that, like you gotta get over it, but apparently not. I just I'm not a bad guy.
00:01:22
Speaker 2: Man.
00:01:22
Speaker 3: I made a mistake and I fucking went down a wrong heads and I'm not a bad guy. But Zach, I mean, the story should be told.
00:01:38
Speaker 1: From Odyssey originals. I'm Zach Levitt, 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.
00:01:52
Speaker 4: Dangerous times in New York City, the biggest city in America, is on the roads.
00:01:56
Speaker 3: On the streets of New York. It's called crack and the deals go down quickly.
00:02:01
Speaker 1: It was the most violent year in the city's history, the height of the crack era.
00:02:06
Speaker 2: There were no opportunities. You got into the game back then, Yo, you had no choice.
00:02:12
Speaker 1: But if you move in coke, you making money.
00:02:14
Speaker 2: Hand over flip baby.
00:02:16
Speaker 1: Entire neighborhoods have been transformed into open air drug markets, but for some criminals brazen enough even the dealers became marks. Was it a common practice to break into apartments which we suspected drug locations?
00:02:31
Speaker 3: Yes?
00:02:32
Speaker 4: Why would you break into these apartments.
00:02:34
Speaker 1: For money, for drugs, whatever it was in there? Weren't you afraid of getting caught at doing this? No? Who's going to catch us?
00:02:46
Speaker 4: 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.
00:02:57
Speaker 1: The New York City Police Department was being a secret. Instead of locking up drug dealers, some cops were out on the streets competing with them.
00:03:09
Speaker 3: I would suit up in my uniform and you're going out of fucking patrol. What are we going to do tonight? We're gonna want some drug dealers, and I know how to do it really well.
00:03:26
Speaker 1: But even worse, the NYPD knew and allowed it to happen.
00:03:30
Speaker 3: They saw their role as protecting the department, not rooting out corrupt cops.
00:03:37
Speaker 1: A special commission was formed to investigate the police department itself, and what it uncovered would shake the city to its foundation. It was a banana republic, precinct operating in the City of New York.
00:03:51
Speaker 2: It was unbelievable in New York City tonight, a major scandal for the nation's largest police force.
00:03:58
Speaker 1: This is the inside story of the Buggas police corruption scandal in NYPD history. At the beginning and the investigation that uncovered at all. We told them that we wanted them to wear a wire. They only got him on a few things. They didn't get him on every time. And he said, okay, all told for the first time by the people who lived in did you consider yourself a rap?
00:04:22
Speaker 2: I save my soul, just like everybody else does.
00:04:26
Speaker 3: I'm not a big guy man, but I can't explain it. And I loved being that dirty motherfucker.
00:04:36
Speaker 1: Welcome to the set an Odyssey Originals documentary podcast series. Listen and follow on the Odissey app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your shows. The Fucked Up, Well Fucked Up, The bomb Man
