“In a war, you count the bodies and call them victories.”
The story of the rise and fall of the Baltimore Police Department's Gun Trace Task Force — and 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.
Jon Bernthal
Sgt. Wayne Jenkins
Wunmi Mosaku
Nicole Steele
Jamie Hector
Sean M. Suiter
Josh Charles
Daniel Hersl
McKinley Belcher III
Momodu 'G Money' Gondo
Rob Brown
Maurice Ward
David Corenswet
David McDougall
Dagmara Dominczyk
Erika Jensen
Don Harvey
John Sieracki
Larry Mitchell
Scott Kilpatrick
We Own This City is a crime, drama series that first aired in 2022 exploring themes of robbery, detective, police brutality, based on novel or book, drug dealer, baltimore, usa. Created by Reinaldo Marcus Green, it stars Jon Bernthal, Wunmi Mosaku, Jamie Hector. The story of the rise and fall of the Baltimore Police Department's Gun Trace Task Force — and 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.
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