We own This City : : a True Story of Crime, Cops, and Corruption
Book - 2021 364.132 Fe 1 On Shelf No requests on this item
Sign in to request
Locations
Call Number: 364.132 Fe
On Shelf At: Downtown Library
Location & Checkout Length | Call Number | Checkout Length | Item Status |
---|---|---|---|
Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout |
364.132 Fe | 4-week checkout | On Shelf |
Wind-up -- An uprising and the launch of an investigation -- Takedown -- Epilogue.
"Baltimore, 2015. Riots were erupting across the city as citizens demanded justice for Freddie Gray, a twenty-five-year old black man who had died while in police custody. At the same time, drug and violent crime were surging, and that year, Baltimore would reach its deadliest year in over two decades: 342 homicides in a city of six hundred thousand people. Under intense scrutiny--and a federal investigation over Gray's death--the Baltimore police department turned to a rank-and-file hero, Sergeant Wayne Jenkins, and his elite unit, the Gun Trace Task Force, to help get guns and drugs off the street. And yet, despite intense scrutiny, what The New York Times would call "one of the most startling police corruption scandals in a generation" was unfolding. Entrusted with fixing the city's drug crisis, Jenkins and his posse of corrupt cops were instead stealing from its citizens--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. Their brazen crime spree would go unchecked for years, and would result in countless wrongful convictions, the death of an innocent person--and the mysterious death of one implicated cop, who was shot in the head just one day before he was scheduled to testify against the Force. Award-winning investigative journalist Justin Fenton has been relentlessly exposing the scandal since 2017, conducting hundreds of interviews and poring over thousands of court documents. The result is an astounding feat of reportage about a rogue police unit, and the American city they held hostage"-- Provided by publisher.
REVIEWS & SUMMARIES
Library Journal ReviewPublishers Weekly Review
Summary / Annotation
Table of Contents
Excerpt
Author Notes
COMMUNITY REVIEWS
No community reviews. Write one below!
PUBLISHED
New York : Random House, [2021]
Year Published: 2021
Description: 335 p.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780593133668
0593133668
SUBJECTS
Jenkins, Wayne, -- 1980-
Baltimore (Md.). -- Police Department -- Corrupt practices -- Case studies.
Police corruption -- Baltimore -- Case studies.
Drug traffic -- Baltimore -- Case studies.
Racketeering -- Baltimore -- Case studies.
Crime -- Baltimore -- Case studies.