Vice Series: The evolving business of crime
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Speaker 1
Rain pounds against the window of Detective Billy Hull's small-town office. He rubs his temples and slicks down his whiskey.
Crooked cops, bed jobs. It's rough out there.
Speaker 2 They say every crime's got a story, and every story's got a sucker.
Speaker 3
Detective Hull, I need your help. I got in too deep at the numbers racket, and now I marched.
The mob's on my tail.
Speaker 2 So the mob's running numbers again, huh?
Speaker 3 Well, hot tamale, could you give me a hand here?
Speaker 2 I've been out of that tune for a while.
Speaker 1 Crime doesn't resemble the old days anymore.
Speaker 1 Today's crime smells like synthetic drugs, data breaches, deep fakes.
Speaker 2
All right, kid. I can help you.
But first, I'm gonna need to listen to like five podcast episodes.
Speaker 1 This coming week, The Indicator from Planet Money brings you a week of episodes on the evolving business of crime.
