‘We Own This City’ Star Jamie Hector Talks ‘Well-Documented’ Corruption Within Baltimore Police Department

variety.com:

Joe Otterson TV ReporterWhen Jamie Hector heard the true story of the dirty cops at the heart of the new HBO limited series “We Own This City,” it wasn’t the corruption that surprised him.“What surprised me was how well-documented it was,” Hector told Variety.“We Own This City” is based on Justin Fenton’s book of the same name.

It tells the true story of the Baltimore Gun Trace Task Force, who routinely robbed drug dealers and citizens alike while also re-selling drugs they confiscated on the job.

The show reunited Hector with David Simon and George Pelecanos, the creators of “We Own This City” with whom Hector previously worked with during his time playing the brilliant, ruthless drug dealer Marlo Stanfield on “The Wire.” “When I read the book, it blew me away, and it blew me away because it’s like, ‘OK, this has been happening.

This is nothing new,'” Hector said. “But it was to the degree that these guys did it, and then it was the source material that Justin was able to capture and people that he was able to interview — and the fact that he was able to pull in that they were investigated, and wiretapped and tracked.