We Own This City (Season 1)

We Own This City (2022) is an HBO limited series you can watch online on iFILM. David Simon, who mapped Baltimore's underworld in The Wire, returned to the same city to reconstruct a different kind of crime: the systematic theft, robbery and extortion carried out by officers of the Baltimore Police Department's Gun Trace Task Force over the course of a decade.

Jon Bernthal plays Sergeant Wayne Jenkins — a detective with the city's highest arrest numbers and a crew that shook down dealers, stole their cash, and planted evidence. Wunmi Mosaku plays the federal investigator whose office slowly untangles the operation from the outside. Six episodes, told out of sequence, layer the rise and the accounting of one man and one department that lost any reason to pretend.

Based on the book by Baltimore Sun journalist Justin Fenton, the series directed by Reinaldo Marcus Green refuses to build toward a tidy verdict. It just shows what happened. Stream all episodes of We Own This City on iFILM.