Jon Bernthal, Wunmi Mosaku, Jamie Hector and Josh Charles star in the debut trailer for We Own This City, coming later this month to HBO Max.
The show reteams The Wire creator David Simon and George Pelecanos. Here’s a synopsis: 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.
We Own This City 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 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, 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.
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