In the early 1980s, Hill Street Blues writer Anthony Yerkovich was reading The Wall Street Journal when he came across a startling statistic. According to the newspaper, one-fifth of all the unreported income in the U.S. passed through a single city: Miami.
“If you’re doing a show,” Yerkovich says, “you want to pick an area that’s got a lot of shit happening all the time.” Dade County clearly fit the bill, he says, with a crime rate 40 times the national average at the time and so much cash that there were 14 pages of banks listed in the Miami phone book. Miami was a “modern-day Casablanca,” Yerkovich said in Time, “a sort of Barbary Coast of free enterprise gone berserk.”
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