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 t

Ep. 5: 500 Names

Aug 7th, 2017 24m 20s

In this episode, Christopher Johnson examines how changes in the law took discretion away from judges. Rather than being able to take into account the human in front of them, judges were now required to use ridged formulas to calculate sentence

Ep. 4: Inmate #06831-424

Jul 31st, 2017 27m 38s

Meet Eric Wilson. With no adult support and no options for work on Chicago’s Southside, Eric eventually turned to selling crack to support himself and his siblings. This episode details how Eric received the mandatory prison sentence as a direc

Ep. 3: The 202

Jul 24th, 2017 24m 54s

Christopher Johnson brings listeners back in time to the Washington D.C. of his youth, when the crack-cocaine trade turned the city into America’s murder capital. Take a ride with a former narcotics cop across the Anacostia River and through wh

Ep 2: 100:1

Jul 17th, 2017 28m 47s

In this episode, producer Derek John heads to the US Capitol to uncover what really went on during the secret drafting of the 100:1 bill in 1986. Meet Eric Sterling, a former Congressional lawyer, who reveals how an atmosphere of political one-

Ep. 1: Autopsy No. 86-999

Jul 11th, 2017 23m 15s

100:1 The Crack Legacy begins with the deaths of two young black men: Freddie Gray, in 2015, and Len Bias, in 1986. The ties between their deaths are unsettling, but, together, they illuminate how the anti-crack drug laws of the 1980s set polic

Coming soon

Jul 3rd, 2017 1m 27s

From a War on Drugs to a war on people. In the new Audible Originals series, 100:1 The Crack Legacy, journalist Christopher Johnson explores the crack epidemic of the 1980s to help explain the current state of hyper-aggressive policing and drac

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