We Own This City series on HBO depicts the inevitable corruption when a police task force unit is given a carte blanche.
What is the Series About?
In the 2000s, the Baltimore Police Department struggled to respond to crime with meaningful police work, giving itself over to mass arrest and drug warring instead.
The series shows how the department’s desperate reliance on statistics over substance eventually led to the inability of department officials to supervise the Gun Trace Task Force (GTTF) and the further inability of the department to discipline rogue police.
At the time of the GTTF scandal in 2017, though there were numerous indications of corruption within several plainclothes units going back almost a decade.
Inspite of this Baltimore police commanders held to the belief that any street unit that could bring in guns and drugs consistently had to be championed and protected.
What is the Release Date of the Series?
We Own This City premieres on HBO on April 25 2022 at 9 PM ET/PT.
What is the Cast of We Own This City?
Jon Bernthal, Wunmi Mosaku, Jamie Hector and Josh Charles star in the series. George Pelecanos and David Simon develop the series.
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