Binge We Own This City
Binge We Own This City – Executive produced by George Pelecanos (The Deuce) and David Simon (The Wire) – and based on the book by Baltimore Sun reporter Justin Fenton.
We Own This City is a six-hour, limited series chronicling the rise and fall of the Baltimore Police Department’s Gun Trace Task Force.
It examines the corruption and moral collapse that befell an American city in which the policies of drug prohibition and mass arrest were championed at the expense of actual police work.
The cast includes Jon Bernthal (The Walking Dead, Show Me a Hero), Josh Charles (The Good Wife, In Treatment), Wunmi Mosaku (Lovecraft Country), and Jamie Hector (BOSCH, The Wire), among many others.
Binge We Own This City
We Own the City is set in Baltimore 2015.
Riots are erupting across the city as citizens demand justice for Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old Black man who has died under suspicious circumstances while in police custody.
Drugs and violent crime are surging, and the city is reaching its highest murder count in more than two decades: 342 homicides in a single year, in a city of just 600,000 people.
Facing pressure from the mayor’s office-as well as a federal investigation of the department over Gray’s death.
Baltimore police commanders turn to a rank-and-file hero, Sergeant Wayne Jenkins, and his elite plainclothes unit, the Gun Trace Task Force, to help get guns and drugs off the street.
However, behind these new efforts, a criminal conspiracy of unprecedented scale was unfolding within the police department.
Entrusted with fixing the city’s drug and gun crisis, Jenkins chose to exploit it instead.
Binge We Own This City
S1.E1 ∙ Part One
Momodu Gondo finds himself in an interrogation.
A detective in a nearby county traces a string of overdoses to Baltimore.
Binge We Own This City S1.E2 ∙ Part Two
Jenkins learns stark truths about policing as a new officer.
Rayam opens up about the GTTF.
Suiter is assigned to a new murder case.
S1.E3 ∙ Part Three
Despite numerous complaints, Hersl is placed on the GTTF.
Jensen monitors Gondo’s calls. Jenkins brings Suiter along on a raid.
Binge We Own This City S1.E4 ∙ Part Four
Jenkins pivots after a car chase yields no drugs.
During an FBI interview, former officer Maurice Ward recalls how Jenkins remained unscathed as supervisor of GTTF.
Steele confronts Davis. The city is rocked by the Freddie Gray protests.
S1.E5 ∙ Part Five
Jensen, Sieracki, and US Attorney Leo Wise prepare to charge the GTTF officers.
Suiter feels community distrust as he works a homicide, sensing that his past is closing in on him.
Steele and Davis seek support from the new mayor.
Binge We Own This City S1.E6 ∙ Part Six
Suiter is concerned about his grand jury subpoena after the GTTF arrests.
Jenkins learns his GTTF cops are cooperating, as his crimes come to light.
Davis battles over consent decree funding.
Steele questions if the system can be reformed.
Binge We Own This City
Based on the book “We Own This City: A True Story of Crime, Cops and Corruption” by Baltimore Sun reporter Justin Fenton, this gritty drama chronicles the rise and fall of the Baltimore Police Department’s Gun Trace Task Force.
It exposes the corruption and moral collapse that befalls an American city in which the policies of drug prohibition and mass arrest are championed at the expense of actual police work.
Created and written by David Simon, creator of “The Wire,” and George Pelecanos, production took place in Baltimore.
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