Brooklyn North Audible, 2020 Featured at the iHeart Podcast Awards

In the 80s and 90s, Brooklyn was a major battleground of the “war on drugs.” New York’s prison population swelled. Inmate abuse was rampant. And wrongful convictions skyrocketed. Many of these inmates suffered in prison for decades.  

Brooklyn North is the powerful story of four Brooklyn men - Jonathan Fleming, Sundhe Moses, Jabbar Washington, and John Bunn - who were wrongfully convicted for separate murders in the late 80s and early 90s. They served a cumulative 75 years in prison before being exonerated. Three of their cases are linked to the same “star” detective of the NYPD’s Brooklyn North Homicide Squad, Louis Scarcella.  

The Innocence Project estimates that more than 20,000 US inmates – and possibly far more - may be wrongfully convicted. Some of these cases date back as far as the 1980s and 90s, during the height of the “war on drugs,” which contributed mightily to mass incarceration, was blindly punitive, and led to a surge in wrongful convictions. Some of the most egregious wrongful conviction cases were for homicide, and race played a major role. The National Registry of Exonerations has found that Black people are seven to eight times more likely to be wrongfully convicted of violent crimes than white people.

Creator, Writer (with Josh Sanburn), Executive Producer