Crimetown Season 2:
Detroit
Welcome to Crimetown, a series produced by Marc Smerling and Zac Stuart-Pontier in partnership with Gimlet Media. Each season, we investigate the culture of crime in a different city. In Season 2, Crimetown heads to the heart of the Rust Belt: Detroit, Michigan. From its heyday as Motor City to its rebirth as the Brooklyn of the Midwest, Detroit’s history reflects a series of issues that strike at the heart of American identity: race, poverty, policing, loss of industry, the war on drugs, and our universal desire for a savior. Detroit’s a tough town, and its residents are even tougher. They’ve weathered riots, a drug epidemic, political scandal, and innumerable other hardships, but they’re still here—and they have stories to tell. New episodes out Mondays, exclusively on Spotify.
Stop the Robberies, Enjoy Safe Streets
The Battle for Detroit
The Fat Man and the Field Marshall
The Kingpins’ Kids
YBI to the Day I Die
The Mayor, the Barber, and the Babysitter
Who Killed Damion Lucas?
Operation Backbone
Dimitri
Right Here, Right Now
The Hip Hop Mayor
Fake News
Gary Brown v. Mayor of Detroit
The Affair
The Murder of Tamara Greene
Surrendered
Operation Bombay Dreams
United States v. Kwame Kilpatrick
From the Ashes