![]() ![]() The series is based on the book “We Own This City: A True Story of Crime, Cops, and Corruption,” by former Baltimore Sun reporter Justin Fenton, which chronicles the task force’s corrupt activities and ultimate crackdown by the FBI. Wayne Jenkins (Jon Bernthal in the series). The series, from The Wire creator David Simon and writer/producer (and, also, Wire alumnus) George Pelecanos, follows the Baltimore Police Department’s Gun Trace Task Force, members of whom were indicted on federal racketeering charges in 2017, including former leader of the task force, Sgt. ![]() After months of inane true-crime television in the form of hucksters and d ating-app swindlers, HBO redeems the genre, returning to its early 2000s crime drama roots with We Own This City. ![]()
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