Ep. 6: 37th & 8th
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Christopher Johnson speaks Neill Franklin, a black, former cop who offers rare insight into the ways his department both incentivized the fight against crack and physically displayed their anti-black bias. The series closes with a look toward the effect 100:1 will have on race, policing, and the war on drugs in President Trump’s America.
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