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Author Fenton, Justin, author.

Title We own this city : a true story of crime, cops, and corruption in an American city / Justin Fenton.

Publication Info. New York : Random House, [2021]
©2021

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 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  364.1 FENTON    Check Shelf
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Non Fiction  364.1323 FENTON    Check Shelf
 Burlington Public Library - Adult Department  364.1 FENTON    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  364.1323 FEN    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  364.132 FEN    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  364.1 FENTON    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  364.1323 FENTON    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - NEW Adult Nonfiction  364.1323 FEN    Missing
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  364.1 FEN    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  364.1323 FENTON    Check Shelf

Edition First edition.
Description vi, 335 pages ; 25 cm
Contents Wind-up -- Launch of an investigation -- Takedown.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [277]-320) and index.
Summary "Baltimore, 2015. Riots were erupting across the city as citizens demanded justice for Freddie Gray, a twenty-five-year old black man who had died while in police custody. At the same time, drug and violent crime were surging, and that year, Baltimore would reach its deadliest year in over two decades: 342 homicides in a city of six hundred thousand people. Under intense scrutiny--and a federal investigation over Gray's death--the Baltimore police department turned to a rank-and-file hero, Sergeant Wayne Jenkins, and his elite unit, the Gun Trace Task Force, to help get guns and drugs off the street. And yet, despite intense scrutiny, what The New York Times would call "one of the most startling police corruption scandals in a generation" was unfolding. Entrusted with fixing the city's drug crisis, Jenkins and his posse of corrupt cops were instead stealing from its citizens--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. Their brazen crime spree would go unchecked for years, and would result in countless wrongful convictions, the death of an innocent person--and the mysterious death of one implicated cop, who was shot in the head just one day before he was scheduled to testify against the Force. Award-winning investigative journalist Justin Fenton has been relentlessly exposing the scandal since 2017, conducting hundreds of interviews and poring over thousands of court documents. The result is an astounding feat of reportage about a rogue police unit, and the American city they held hostage"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Jenkins, Wayne, 1980-
Baltimore (Md.). Police Department -- Corrupt practices -- Case studies.
Police corruption -- Maryland -- Baltimore -- Case studies.
Drug traffic -- Maryland -- Baltimore -- Case studies.
Racketeering -- Maryland -- Baltimore -- Case studies.
Crime -- Maryland -- Baltimore -- Case studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General.
Baltimore (Md.). Police Department. (OCoLC)fst01806523
Corruption. (OCoLC)fst01352550
Crime. (OCoLC)fst00882984
Drug traffic. (OCoLC)fst00898722
Police corruption. (OCoLC)fst01068588
Racketeering. (OCoLC)fst01086679
Maryland -- Baltimore. (OCoLC)fst01204292
Genre/Form Case studies. (OCoLC)fst01423765
Other Form: Online version: Fenton, Justin. We own this city First edition. New York : Random House, [2021] 9780593133675 (DLC) 2020020880
ISBN 9780593133668 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
0593133668 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
9780593133675 (ebook)
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