We Own This City: A True Story of Crime, Cops, and Corruption

Baltimore, 2015. Riots were erupting across the city as citizens
demanded justice for Freddie Gray, a twenty-five-year-old black man who
died in police custody. At the same time, drug and violent crime were
once again surging.
For years, Sgt Wayne Jenkins and his team of
plain-clothed officers - the Gun Trace Task Force - were the city's
lauded and decorated heroes. But all the while they had been skimming
from the drug busts they made, pocketing thousands in cash found in
private homes and planting fake evidence to throw Internal Affairs off
their scent. Because who would believe the dealers, the smugglers or
people who had simply been going about their daily business over the
word of the city's elite task force?
Now, in light of their
spectacular trial of late 2018, and in a work of astounding reportage
and painstaking self-discovery, Justin Fenton has pieced together a
shocking story of systemic corruption.