5/13/2023 0 Comments We own this city justin fenton![]() With other members of the empowered Gun Trace Task Force, Jenkins stole from Baltimore's citizens-skimming from drug busts, pocketing thousands in cash found in private homes, and planting fake evidence to throw Internal Affairs off their scent. Entrusted with fixing the city's drug and gun crisis, Jenkins chose to exploit it instead. Facing pressure from the mayor's office-as well as a federal investigation of the department over Gray's death-Baltimore police commanders turn to a rank-and-file hero, Sergeant Wayne Jenkins, and his elite plainclothes unit, the Gun Trace Task Force, to help get guns and drugs off the street.īut behind these new efforts, a criminal conspiracy of unprecedented scale was unfolding within the police department. Drug and violent crime are surging, and Baltimore will reach its highest murder count in more than two decades: 342 homicides in a single year, in a city of just 600,000 people. Riots are erupting across the city as citizens demand justice for Freddie Gray, a twenty-five-year-old Black man who has died under suspicious circumstances while in police custody. ![]() ![]() The astonishing true story of "one of the most startling police corruption scandals in a generation" (the New York Times), from the Pulitzer Prize-nominated reporter who exposed a gang of criminal cops and their yearslong plunder of an American city.īaltimore, 2015. ![]()
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