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Popular National Podcast to Feature the Motor City and Kwame Kilpatrick

September 23, 2018, 9:55 AM

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Kwame Kilpatrick in happier days. (Facebook photo)

Ex-Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick sits in the Fort Dix federal prison in New Jersey serving out his 28 year sentence for corruption.

But he hasn't been forgotten.

His case will pop up this year in the hit podcast, Crimetown.

Julie HInds of the Detroit Free Press reports:

The second season of "Crimetown" will focus its 20-episode run on the Motor City and several decades of its recent history, according to a Thursday morning announcement by Gimlet Media.

The first episode, premiering Oct. 1 exclusively on Spotify, takes listeners back to the early 1970s and the rise of the controversial police unit STRESS. That name was an acronym for "Stop the Robberies, Enjoy Safe Streets," a slogan that belied the unit's violent, deadly reputation.

Subsequent episodes will cover personal stories from many different voices — criminals, crime victims, cops, drug dealers, drug addicts and more. The season wraps with the downfall of Kwame Kilpatrick, the once-promising young mayor who's now behind bars serving a 28-year corruption sentence.


Read more:  Detroit Free Press


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