![]() Wayne Jenkins, a rogue officer whose exploits are documented through those aforementioned flashbacks and Jamie Hector (“The Wire”) as Sean M. Other key figures include Jon Bernthal (“The Punisher”) as Sgt. The Gray case brought federal scrutiny to the department’s actions, with Wunmi Mosaku (“Loki”) playing Nicole Steele, an attorney with the Justice Dept.’s Civil Rights division investigating police corruption, working against a deadline knowing the Trump administration might not follow through on her efforts. ![]() Jumping back and forth in time, the six-episode series proves a little disorienting at first as it flits among various characters and stories, with the key touchstone being charges filed against Baltimore officers over Freddie Gray, who died in police custody in 2015. “The Wire” producer David Simon, again working with George Pelecanos, here adapts a book by Justin Fenton, a reporter at Simon’s former stomping grounds the Baltimore Sun, detailing the abuses by Baltimore’s Gun Trace Task Force, and how higher-ups looked the other way on malfeasance and complaints as long as arrest rates remained high. If “The Wire” defined the futility of the drug war – and not incidentally ranks as one of the greatest series ever made in the eyes of a loyal few – its fictional look at policing Baltimore merges with a fact-based version in “We Own This City,” a spare but bleak window into a culture of corruption that plagued the city’s police department. ![]()
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