![]() The Wire made its point about embedded corruption over and over. He soon discovered Jenkins’ Gun Trace Task Force had been shadowing the same dealer – and that this had been done off the books, the task force pursuing its own murky agenda. Yet, he is a revelation in We Own This City, with a performance modulating somewhere between Woody Harrelson in Natural Born Killers and Denzel Washington in Training Day.Įlsewhere the episode had a slow-burn intensity, with a script written by Simon with thriller author George Pelecanos (adapting a non-fiction book by Baltimore Sun reporter Justin Fenton).Īs Jenkins expanded his empire, an officer from the Baltimore suburbs (David Corenswet) was on the trail of the supplier of a batch of lethal heroin. ![]() He played him as a charismatic anti-hero who had carved out an empire by shaking down criminals for his cut of the action.īernthal is perhaps best known as the star of Netflix’s bleak series The Punisher. Jon Bernthal gave a force-of-nature turn here as real-life corrupt officer Sgt Wayne Jenkins. ![]() ![]() Between a rock and a hard place, Baltimore was caught in an institutional death grip. The upshot was those cops who continued to demonstrate brutality on the job were regarded by city hall as more valuable – they were the only ones the city could rely on to throw their weight around on the streets. ![]()
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