Guinn, a founding member of the GTTF, “and we went everywhere. “We were like one big unit,” recalled Mr. Fenton’s “We Own This City” is the tale of the Gun Trace Task Force, founded in 2007 as a well-meaning initiative that would target the distributors and straw purchasers responsible for flooding Baltimore streets with guns. The nexus between the “pressure” brought by civic leaders clamoring for an answer to gun violence, and the less lofty realities of the practical world of policing comes into focus in the story of one notorious team’s origins and descent into infamy, as told by a longtime journalist for the Baltimore Sun. With the pressure we’re put under to produce?” Guinn protests: “He cut corners-yeah, what cop doesn’t cut corners? Show me a cop who goes A-to-Z and hits every letter in their investigation. Speaking of another officer’s brazen disregard for the law, Mr. Toward the end of crime reporter Justin Fenton’s account of the catastrophic reign of a Baltimore police unit that became synonymous with law-enforcement corruption and brutality, BPD detective Ryan Guinn touches on a paradox many of his colleagues see at the heart of police work. 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.Protest marchers confront police on the streets of Baltimore following the 2015 death of Freddie Gray. 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?

by Justin Fenton 0 Ratings 2 Want to read 1 Currently reading 0 Have read Overview View 6 Editions Details Reviews Lists Related Books Publish Date 2021 Publisher Faber & Faber, Limited Language English Pages 292 This edition doesnt have a description yet. 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. An edition of We Own This City (2021) We Own This City The True Story Of. At the same time, drug and violent crime were once again surging.įor years, Sgt Wayne Jenkins and his team of plain-clothed officers – the Gun Trace Task Force – were the city’s lauded and decorated heroes. 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. The astonishing true story of ‘one of the most startling police corruption scandals in a generation’ ( The New York Times)īaltimore, 2015. ‘Unputdownable … fantastic and terrifying.’ Nihal Arthanayake, RADIO 5 ‘Jaw-dropping… makes ‘The Wire’ look tame by comparison’ Daily Telegraph Based on the book of the same name by Baltimore Sun reporter Justin Fenton, this volatile and labyrinthine six-part mini-series begins in 2017 and traces the.

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