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The miniseries details the rise and fall of the Baltimore Police Department's Gun Trace Task Force, and the corruption surrounding it.The story centers on Sergeant Wayne Jenkins, one of eight officers who were convicted on various corruption charges in 2018 and 2019.
Reinaldo Marcus Green ("King Richard") directs the series, centered on the real-life Gun Trace Task Force police scandal in Baltimore.
Former Baltimore Police Commissioner Kevin Davis said Suiter was not a target of the federal investigation around the Gun Trace Task Force. Suiter however, was connected earlier in his career to several members of the corrupt Gun Trace Task Force including Sgt. Wayne Jenkins , [ 7 ] Detective Maurice Ward, and Detective Momodu Gondo, who each ...
Wayne Earl Jenkins Jr. (born 1980) is a former Baltimore Police Department (BPD) sergeant who was the ringleader of the Gun Trace Task Force (GTTF), [1] [2] [3] a plainclothes unit that engaged in widespread criminal activities while on duty.
The miniseries, co-created by The Wire‘s David Simon and George Pelecanos, follows a special unit, known as the Gun Trace Task Force (GTTF), which was assembled in 2007 to remove guns and ...
“We Own This City!” would appear to be the chest-beating battle cry of a corrupt Baltimore PD task force, as seen in the trailer for HBO’s upcoming crime drama from The Wire‘s David Simon ...
The series is based on the nonfiction book of the same name by Justin Fenton. It tells the story of a group of corrupt Baltimore police officers who worked on the city’s Gun Trace Task Force (GTTF).
He then interned at The Baltimore Sun and went on to become a reporter at the newspaper for 17 years. Fenton was part of the Pulitzer Prize finalist staff recognized for their coverage of the Baltimore riots that followed the death of Freddie Gray. He was also one of the lead reporters who reported on Baltimore's Gun Trace Task Force scandal. [8]