Part One - Recap

See below for a detailed **recap** of **"Part One"** of *We Own This City*.

#### Cold Open

A run sheet shows that the date is January 10th, 2017. Baltimore Police Department (BPD) Sergeant Wayne Jenkins delivers a lecture to a class of police cadets about police brutality. He tells the rookies that they will be forced to fight as part of their work and that it is essential they win those fights they are involved in to maintain control of the streets. Jenkins teaching is intercut with flashbacks of him working as a patrolman in the South Eastern District. Further inserts show police participating in mass arrests, assaults on citizens and mass incarcerations.

Jenkins cautions the class that there will be fights they want to get involved with but should aim to avoid. He warns that beating on the population will only turn them against you and make it harder to obtain information. He claims that the real police brutality is getting involved in unnecessary fights. He tells the class that they need information to build cases that will stand up in court. He warns the class that brutality gets in the way of real case work that leads to overtime, court pay and promotions.

He warns that brutality can lead to complaints and internal affairs division (IAD) investigations and damage to your reputation. He reassures the class that for the necessary fights any police officer capable of doing the job can write themselves out of trouble in how they report the incidents. He opines that brutality even if not punished directly by the department can cause civil claims that cost the department money and damage your reputation. He tells the cadets that if beatings made cases he would encourage them to be as brutal as possible but that is not the reality. He warns them that brutality will prevent them from working an elite unit like his own Gun Trace Task Force.

He concludes by insisting that he is not telling the cadets that their hands are tied. Jenkins asserts that any officer who knows the law and can write a clean report will be taken at their word in any court and therefore win any conflict. He tells the class that if they bring in good cases involving drugs, guns and violent criminals they cannot lose and encourages them to "go out there and give them hell."

In the flashback Jenkins swings his billy club as he walks the streets and his presence intimidates passers by, who avoid making eye contact with him. He notices a man leaving a bodega drinking from a bottle in a brown paper bag. The bag is usually enough to convince officers to ignore the violation of the city's open container statutes aimed to prevent drinking of alcohol in public. Jenkins approaches the man and silently stares him down. The man goes to leave but Jenkins smashes the bottle with his billy club without saying a word to the man. Jenkins allows his victim to leave emptyhanded and continues on his patrol.

#### Gondo Interrogation - Jenkins

Sergeant John Sieracki and Special Agent Erika Jensen interview Detective Momodu Gondo. Sieracki confirms the spelling of his name but Gondo asks to be called G-Money. The security camera timestamp shows that the interview is taking place on March 3rd, 2017 at approximately 15:35. They ask him about Jenkins and he tells them that Jenkins is off the hook and understands something that most investigators including his captors do not - that information is everything. He says that the drug game depends on information and by talking to everyone you can remain a step ahead of everyone.

#### Collington Square Warrant

A run sheet details that Jenkins spent February 17th, 2017 working on a search and seizure warrant for an address in Collington Square. He has recorded completing offsite admin from 0700 to 1300, obtaining the warrant from the Mitchell Courthouse from 1300 to 1410 and then staging the search and seizure operation from 1410 to 1600 before actually executing the warrant at 1602.

Jenkins sits in the drivers seat of his vehicle with Detective Marcus Taylor next to him. Detectives Evodio Hendrix and Maurice Ward are in the back seat. All of the officers are members of the GTTF. Taylor complains about the wait for Jenkins to give them the go ahead. Jenkins jokes that he likes making his subordinate wait. Jenkins gives them the go order and they approach the front door of a row house with the number Eight Sixteen. The two detectives sat in the car behind them circle to another door.

A woman answers the door and tries to close it on them, recognising that they are police. Jenkins shoves the door into her and then drags her outside. The officers noisily enter the residence and subdue the group of men inside, forcing them to lie face down on the floor. One man resists and insults Jenkins when he asks if anyone is upstairs. One of the detectives hits him in the face in response. Jenkins asks another one of the men the same question and he groans a negative response.

Hendrix finds a pair of handguns hidden under the sofa cushions in the front room. Jenkins orders Ward to bag the guns and Hendrix to accompany him upstairs. One of the other detectives goes to take the first room on the left but Jenkins orders him away, saying that room is his. The detective finds packages of narcotics in the room at the end of the upstairs corridor. Jenkins returns to the room he targeted for himself with Hendrix and instructs him to search a corner closet. Hendrix finds a stash of assault rifles. He tells Jenkins they are right where his source said they would be. Jenkins jokes that he is getting aroused. Hendrix exalts his sergeant as Jenkins continues to search first finding a cache of ammunition under the bed. Jenkins searches another closet and silently nods at the contents. Hendrix asks what he has found.

#### Homicide Division

Detective Sean Suiter takes a call on his desk line and agrees to an appointment later that day. Jenkins and Hendrix arrive with their seized weapons from Collington Square. Jenkins crows Suiter's name and sends Hendrix on to the Evidence Control Unit (ECU). Jenkins reminisces about his time working with Suiter in the Violent Crimes Impact Division (VCID). Suiter says that he is only two years away from retirement with a twenty year pension.

Jenkins tells Suiter about the raid and the range of weapons they found. He suggests that there could be a link to open murder cases in the Eastern District area and assures Suiter that he will keep him informed if any of the ballistics testing links a gun to a case. Suiter congratulates Jenkins with a smile but turns away looking perturbed as his old colleague leaves.

#### Gondo Interrogation - Shropshire

Jenkins and Sieracki interrogate Gondo in a holding cell. The security camera timestamp shows that the interview is taking place on March 2nd, 2017 at approximately 10:20. Jenkins asks Gondo how long he had known Antonio Shropshire alias Brill before getting involved in his drug operation. Gondo claims to have known him for five years. Sieracki interjects that they grew up in the same neighborhood which Gondo confirms.

Jenkins asks Gondo about his involvement with robberies and when this began. Gondo relays that this was around 2008, prior to his association with Shropshire. Gondo tries to assure the investigators that these were not armed robberies. Jenkins asks where the robberies took place and Gondo tells her they were all over. Sieracki asks if Belvedere Towers on Northern Parjway was a hot spot and Gondo agrees that he did a lot of business in "BT".

Gondo asks how they came to investigate him. Sieracki asserts that they should be asking the questions. Gondo continues that he is curious and Sieracki tells him it is a long story.

#### Bel Air, Maryland - Two Years Earlier

A title card introduces a further flashback to June 2015 in the Bel Air neighbourhood of Maryland. Corporal David McDougall interviews Kenneth Mozel, who has just been resuscitated from a drug overdose, about the body of a woman found in his house. Kenneth calls for Ashley and McDougall informs him that she died of her own drug overdose before the Emergency Medical Technicians (EMTs) arrived. McDougall asks what Kenneth and Ashley's relationship was. Kenneth explains that they were friends who met in rehab but have since relapsed and heroin together.

McDougall asks Mozel if he and Ashley had sex. Mozel admits that they did but claims it was consensual. McDougall reveals that he found nude photos of a sleeping Ashley on Mozel's phone and he claims this was for a joke and he planned to show her the photos. McDougall does not press Mozel further and tells him that it was Ashley who made the 911 call which likely saved his life.

Detective Gordon Hawk returns from the back of the residence with narcotics packets labelled with a bumblebee sticker. He questions Mozel about where they obtained the drugs and Mozel tells them his dealer is known as "Black" and his surname is Anderson. He tells them he drives to the drug market at the Alameda Strip Mall and is served through the window of his car. McDougall offers Mozel his condolences and heads outside.

McDougall tells Hawk that the bumblebee stickers signify drugs from known distributor Antonio Shropshire. Hawk notes that the heroin's purity has caused a number of overdoses.

#### North Avenue

Department of Justice Civil Rights attorney Nicole Steele drives back to her office. She pulls over when she sees a group of BPD officers attempting to arrest a citizen on North Avenue. They are surrounded by a crowd of people, all filming them with cell phones. Steele also starts recording from her car, using her own phone.

The man resists being cuffed, keeping his right arm pinned underneath him. Officer D. Moons eventually gives up trying to subdue him and lets him go, telling the crowd to police themselves. The bystanders mock the police as they return to their vehicles and drive away.

#### Harford County Narcotics Taskforce Office - Anderson ID

Hawk brags that he has narrowed a list of over 1000 people with street name black to one individual using the information from Mozel - Aaron Anderson. McDougall has checked the police databases and found that Baltimore County narcotics are also investigating Shropshire. Hawk asserts that it will be Detective Scott Kilpatrick. McDougall agrees and calls to leave a message for Kilpatrick, saying he is calling about his bar tab and joking that this will get his attention.

#### Office of Civil Rights

Steele returns to the temporary home of her Office of Civil Rights team in a Baltimore high rise. Her colleague Charlie Gibson says that he looked for at lunch. She explains that she went for carry out Lake Trout from the North East Market, opining that you get to know a city through its food.

Gibson shows her cell phone footage of the incident on North Avenue. She relays that she saw the incident and shares her own video, marvelling that the police ran away from the arrest. Steele notes that following on from the indictment of the police officers involved in the murder of Freddie Gray the BPD are still unwilling to police the right way so are doing nothing at all.

Brad Rosenthal introduces a new member of the team, Ahmed Jackson. Jackson explains that he has been reassigned from Philadelphia after requesting work in the Office of Civil Rights (OCR). Steele jokes that Jackson had better hope that Hilary Clinton wins the upcoming 2016 Presidential election. Jackson asks why and Rosenthal explains that during a Republican presidency there is very little support for the work of the OCR. Jackson states that he cannot see Donald Trump getting the Republican nomination, let alone winning an election.

Steele introduces Gibson but Jackson has already met him, and his colleague Bill Burns, who is no longer present. Steele explains that Bill and Gibson manage the patterns and practices team. Steele notes that this will be Jackson's first consent decree investigation. Jackson agrees that he has been thrown in at the deep end with his background mainly in drug and tax cases. Rosenthal tells him that it will be a while before he lands back in a courtroom as their team does not do much litigation. Steele adds that they hold hands and twist arms. She asks Jackson if he wants to meet the Mayor and he agrees to do so.

#### Baltimore County Narcotics Taskforce - Information Sharing

McDougall visits Kilpatrick in the offices of the Baltimore County Narcotics Taskforce. Kilpatrick's investigation into the Shropshire crew is well developed and a notice board shows photos identifying Shropshire and his lieutenants Glen Kyle Wells aliases "Lou" and "Kyle", Alexander "Munch" Campbell, Antoine "Twon" Washington and Omari "Lil B" Thomas.

McDougall declines Kilpatrick's offer to share his crab chips and pushes for information on Shropshire. Kilpatrick says that they have known about him for a while but are having trouble linking him directly to his illegal activity as he is careful to stay away from hot spots. McDougall asks about Shropshire's crew and Kilpatrick names Wells and Washington as his key people. McDougall asks about Anderson. Kilpatrick jokes that McDougall is going to make him do actual work and reluctantly runs a search on the name.

Kilpatrick finds an entry on Anderson but notes that he is not dealing the same volumes of drugs as the Shropshire crew. He says that he might be linked to them as his supplier but is not definite about this. McDougall relays that Anderson has been selling bumblebee stickered product that has caused four overdoses in Harford County alone and notes that further cases highlighted by the medical examiner includer six deaths in the city, three in Baltimore County and one in Arundel.

Kiplatrick notes that they have linked Anderson to the Alameda shopping centre, below the Belvedere Tower. Kilpatrick laments that the open air drug market is rarely a source of arrests and notes that the drug dealers there are unfazed by BPD cops. McDougall worries that they aren't ever going to make a dent in the drug crime and Kilpatrick says he has to put thoughts like that aside to get out of bed in the morning.

#### Alameda Shopping Centre - night surveillance

Hawk buys coffee from a bodega and then returns to a surveillance van. McDougall is inside observing the drug dealers working at the Alameda. They joke about the quality of the coffee and McDougall updates Hawk that while there is plenty of activity it is too dark to identify any of the participants. He states that a contractor from Baltimore General and Electric will fit a camera on a street light for them the following day. Hawk notes that the dealers park their cars in an adjacent lot.

#### Breakfast Meeting

Steele and Jackson meet for breakfast. Jackson calls it the most important meal of the day but Steele jokes that she prefers dinner, which she tends to drink. She tells Jackson this is her fourth consent decree assignment having previously worked in Seattle, Cincinnati and New Orleans. She notes that she was in Baltimore before the Freddie Gray murder. Her arrival followed a request from the Mayor for assistance after the local paper exposed high numbers of settlements with victims of police brutality. Following the Gray case the Mayor requested a full DOJ investigation to support a consent decree. Steele notes that this was immaterial as the DOJ would have pursued this regardless following the murder of Gray by the BPD.

Jackson notes many of the negative practices of the BPD including brutality, profiling and selective prosecutions. Steele replies that with the city's population at 620,000 there have been over 300,000 reported pedestrian stops in the past five years. She notes that under 4% of the stops resulted in a citation or arrest and that their team have identified seven black males who have each been stopped over 30 times. Jackson laments the pattern of unjustified stops based solely on racial profiling. Steele cautions that you cannot let yourself get consumed by anger.

#### Alameda Shopping Centre - day surveillance

Hawk and McDougall continue their surveillance into the daytime, now with working cameras. The date stamp shows that it is September 10th, 2015. Hawk identifies the arrival of Anderson. He links him to a Jeep Cherokee and notes the licence plate.

#### Mayoral Meeting

Steele and Jackson meet with Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake and two members of her staff in her office. The Mayor reminds them that she initiated the consent decree process and is their ally. Steele clarifies that she requested a meeting because she wants to understand why the Mayor has asked for the Police Commissioner to resign. The Mayor's female staff member rationalises that crime has gotten out of control since the Gray murder. Steele asks if they blame Commissioner Anthony Batts and notes that the rank and file of the department are quitting on them. The staffer retorts that the work slowdown, which began with States Attorney Marilyn Moseby indicting the officers involved in Gray's death, will be an issue for the new commissioner to address. The Mayor states that she has been losing faith in Batts for some time and that this began when he tried to go on vacation immediately before Gray's funeral and she had to order him back.

The Mayor's male staff member notes that the crime rate is at an all-time high and the BPD are still going forward with work action because of their anger of the indictments. Steele asserts that reform has a cost. The Mayor says she would pay that cost, were it up to her, but confides that she is not going to stand for re-election.

#### Alameda Shopping Centre - Kilpatrick visit

Kilpatrick joins McDougall and Hawk on their surveillance at the Alameda Shopping Centre later on September 10th, 2015. He spots a buyer who has their child in the back of their car. McDougall notes that he has seen drug buyers dressed like they work at investment firm T. Rowe Price and cars with Johns Hopkins stickers. Hawk notes that heroin is cheaper than oxycontin drawing middle class opiate addicts to the city's open air drug markets. Kilpatrick notes that they have identified Anderson's jeep but McDougall notes that he has left so they have to wait for him to return.

Kilpatrick relays that Anderson has stopped buying from Shropshire, according to two of his confidential informants. He also notes that Anderson was arrested by the BPD in Spring 2015 in the parking lot of Belvedere Towers with 300g of Heroin (enough for a federal case) but was not charged with any crime. Hawk and McDougall assume that Anderson must have made a deal to get out of the charges although McDougall muses that perhaps the BPD just do things differently.

#### Leaving the Mayor's Office

Steele and Jackson leave the Mayor's Office and discuss the bombshell news that Rawlings-Blake is stepping down. Steele notes that the next Mayor may not be so supportive having inherited the consent decree investigation.

#### Carriage House - Lojacking

McDougall and Hawk follow Anderson to a residence in Carriage House Garden Apartments that they have identified as his home. Both his car and the apartment are in his girlfriend's name. They wait for him to settle in for the night and then Hawk places a tracking device on the underside of his vehicle.

Hawk returns to the surveillance van and asks if McDougall wants to stay and see what Anderson does next. McDougall declines, saying they can rely on the tracker now.

#### Public Defender's Offices

Steele visits Kevin Haughton at the Public Defender's Office. She asks about his background and learns he has been there for twelve years. Steele asks him to name the BPD officers that he has had the most issues with. He tells her to look into Daniel Hersl in the Eastern District. He shows her a series of photos of people he has represented who were brutalised by Hersl (including one man who was also hit by a cop in the Collington Square arrests).

Steele asks about complaints and Haughton notes that all of the victims made a complaint about Hersl and they were all unsustained. He tells her this is commonplace with the BPD. He tells her that Hersl is the worst of many similar problem cops in the department.

#### David Baker car stop

Hersl pulls over David Baker, claiming that he ran a stop sign. Baker is travelling with his school aged son. He is unimpressed when Baker asserts that he had come to a stop. He orders him out of his vehicle and takes his wallet, throwing his identification on to the curb. Baker protests but Hersl ignores him. He notes that Baker lives on Monument Street and sarcastically congratulates him on his success. He tells Baker he can go but warns him about back talk.

#### Federal Case Proposal

McDougall and Kilpatrick meet with Assistant US Attorney Andrea Smith. They share their findings to date as Smith reviews their case file. McDougall suggests that because the case crosses multiple jurisdictions it should be made federal. Smith notes the overdoses and considers that her office might be able to some statutes in ways not available to local prosecutors. She asks the investigators to confirm that they can tie the heroin from the overdoses to the Anderson and Shropshire crews. McDougall tells her they have testimony from four survivors confirming that the drugs are coming from the city.

Smith asks how close they are to making arrests. Kilpatrick cautions that Shropshire is well insulated and may take time to reach. McDougall predicts they will have Anderson in about a week having already installed a tracker on his vehicle.

#### Carriage House Robbery

Anderson leaves his apartment and drives his jeep out of the parking lot. Shortly after he leaves, Gondo pulls in to his vacant space. With him in the car are Jemell Rayam and Glyn Kyle Wells, both wearing ski masks and hoodies. Rayam asks Wells if the apartment is empty and he says that there is no one else there that he is aware of. Rayam asks Gondo to keep watch. He exits the car with Wells and they each retrieve a handgun from a cache of weapons and body armour in the trunk.

Rayam kicks in the front door of the apartment and finds Anderson's girlfriend, Te'ana, still inside. They hold her at gunpoint demanding she tell them where the money is hidden.

#### Harford County Narcotics Taskforce - Warrant Writing

Hawk and McDougall complete paperwork in support of their case at the Harford County Narcotics Taskforce. McDougall picks up a printout and notices that Hawk has misspelled affiant as "Affaint". Hawk realises he will need to redo the work to correct the repeated error. McDougall jokes that they will be serving the warrant at Christmas.

#### Carriage House Getaway

Rayam and Wells return to Gondo's car with a bag full of cash. They relay that Anderson's girlfriend was still in the apartment and that they intimidated her into helping them with the robbery.

#### Federal Case Meeting

Hawk and McDougall meet with Smith. They have noticed a change in Anderson's movement pattern and suspect he has taken up residence at the Red Roof Inn on Timonium Road. Smith instructs them to write warrants to search both locations.

#### Baltimore County Narcotics Taskforce

McDougall meets with Kilpatrick at his office as they prepare to serve their warrants. McDougall notices an officer on his way in. Hawk, already present, asks Kilpatrick if the lieutenant is his commanding officer. Kilpatrick explains that he is from Internal Affairs and that Baltimore County policy requires them to have an IAD supervisor present whenever they execute a search warrant to prevent malfeasance.

#### Judge Moore's chambers

Steele meets with Judge Franklin Moore in his chambers. She explains that she is seeking his insight into the issue of BPD officers with multiple complaints. Moore knows that they are talking about Hersl straight away and relays that Hersl has approximately 50 complaints. Steele wonders why Hersl has been allowed to keep working and Moore explains that his value is in his willingness to make arrests. Moore laments that the problem of police officers not fulfilling their duties at all has grown since the Gray murder. In the face of a work slowdown this has made Hersl into a greater asset to the department.

Moore notes that despite his high arrests numbers Hersl is ineffective at building viable cases for prosecution and that he has had to throw cases out of his courtroom where Hersl has come close to perjuring himself on the stand relating to probable cause for search and seizure and violation of citizen's Fourth Amendment rights.

Moore tells Steele that the State's Attorneys office keeps a "do not call" list of approximately 24 problem officers who cannot be relied upon to testify in court. Steele is shocked by the scale of the issue and asks if Hersl is on the list. Moore tells her that he is not, but should be.

#### Hersl assault

Hersl and Officer Brian Hairston conduct a search of a man's car at the corner of Lafayette and Bethel in East Baltimore. The citizen protests his innocence and complains that they had no cause to stop him. He swears at Hersl, causing him to lose his temper. Hersl pretends that he has been assaulted as pretext to make an arrest. He forces the man to turn around and hits him in the back of the head with his radio, lacerating his scalp and knocking him to the ground. He tells Hairston to call for a prisoner wagon. The injured man asks what he is being charged with and Hersl tells him he has assaulted a police officer and resisted arrest.

Hairston insists on summoning an ambulance citing concerns over SA Mosby's indictments. Hersl grumbles that everyone has gotten too sensitive as he steps over the body of his victim.

#### Gold Club Meeting

Gondo and Rayam meet with Shropshire in the Gold Club. A waitress serves them a bottle of champagne and Shropshire stuffs a tip into her top and kisses her. They celebrate their robbery of Anderson. Shropshire asks if they conducted the robbery themselves and Rayam says that he and Glen went into the apartment. He discloses that Anderson's girlfriend was present and reassures Shropshire that she did not see their faces. Shropshire believes Anderson will blame him for his losses and muses that he will think that Washington ("Twon") and Campbell ("Munch") committed the robbery. He says he is unafraid of reprisals. Shropshire notices Rayam's watch and asks if it was part of the haul from the robbery. Rayam misquotes Shakespeare to the bemusement of his friends.

#### Federal Raids

Kilpatrick oversees a raid on Anderson's Carriage House apartment.

McDougall and Hawk look on as federal agents execute the search warrant at the Red Roof Inn. They catch Anderson and Te'Ana as they are leaving their room and take them into custody.

Kilpatrick calls McDougall to advise that they found nothing illicit at the apartment. Kilpatrick surmises that either someone else has cleared the place out or Anderson did before he left. He notes that the door was already splintered when they went to ram it open.

McDougall relays that their search has just begun but that it looks like Anderson had moved all of his possessions to the Red Roof Inn. Kilpatrick reminds them to retrieve the valuable tracking device from Anderson's jeep.

Hawk goes to extract the device from beneath the vehicle. He is surprised to find that the tracker is a different model. He checks again and finds that there was a second tracker affixed.

## Police Commissioner Meeting

Steele meets with Commisioner Kevin Davis in his office at the Baltimore Police Headquarters. He tells her that he welcomes the Department of Justice investigation and told Steele's superior Vanita Gupta that his agency is open to her people. He claims that he is unafraid of a Consent Decree having worked with one when he was the Assistant Chief of Paul George County Police Department. He notes that the consent decree there helped to rebuild trust with the community.

Steele points out that the Consent Decree could be a meaningless piece of paper unless the police department and politicians implement real changes. Steele asks Davis about problem officers in the BPD. Acknowledging that he is only a few months into post and not personally accountable she pushes him on how officers can remain in post with over 50 civilian complaints about brutality and abuse. Davis recognises that she means Hersl. She points out that the name came to him very quickly.

Davis recalls that he was first made aware of Hersl by a West Baltimore minister shortly after arriving in the city. The minister warned him about Hersl and Fabien Laronde. Davis asserts that Laronde is off the street awaiting a trial board hearing. He shares his plan to fire Laronde if the board finds against him.

Steele wonders about the difference between Hersl and Laronde. Davis explains that Laronde has five sustained complaints. This gives Davis enough evidence to go against the police unions and upset the rank and file by terminating his contract. Hersl only has one sustained complaint and is therefore harder to fire. Steele wonders why only one of the large number of complaints against Hersl was sustained and why Laronde is still on payroll having already had five sustained complaints. Davis offers the excuse that he inherited these officers along with the department.

## Tracker tracing

McDougall and Hawk work on identifying the owner of the second tracker found on Anderson's car. McDougall calls the manufacturer having sent them a subpoena for information via fax. He learns that the tracker was purchased by John Clewell.

## GTTF Staging

Gondo and Rayam banter about Rayam's unchecked libido. Clewell pulls in and gets out of his car. Rayam notices him approaching and asks if they will be collecting taxes. Gondo warns him not to discuss their illicit activities in front of Clewell. Gondo complains that Clewell did not bring anything for him to eat. Clewell remonstrates with Gondo. Gondo mockingly shoves his colleague and suggests they go and get some guns off the street. Rayam picks up his police issue body armor and gets into the car with the other detectives.

## Clewell background

McDougall and Hawk share details from their efforts to investigate Clewell's background. Hawk has found Clewell's service record with the US Marines. They have learned that he is a BPD Officer having joined the department in 2009. McDougall notes that Clewell is now working in the Gun Trace Task Force. Hawk wonders if they were also investigating Anderson. McDougall cautions that there was nothing in the deconfliction database, where they should have documented any open investigation into Anderson to prevent other teams from interfering. Hawk calls this sloppy. McDougall points out that the tracker is not department issue. Hawk wonders about calling Clewell to let him know the tracker is ready for collection. McDougall decides it is best to keep it stored and see if Clewell comes to ask for his equipment back once their case file shows that they collected the tracker. McDougall suggests they should also inform the relevant federal agencies about Clewell's private tracker being used on their suspect, seemingly without a warrant.

## GTTF Car Stop

Gondo, Rayam and Clewell stop a car with assistance from patrol officers. Clewell finds a gun inside the vehicle. The driver claims it is not his and must have been left there by an acquaintance that he gave a ride to after a party the previous evening. He claims not to know their name. He asks what their probable cause was to pull him over. Rayam asks Gondo, who claims the rear licence plate was obscured. Rayam checks and says it looks fine. Gondo is frustrated with Rayam and questions why he is acting like he is new.

Clewell approaches and asks Gondo what he is doing with the tracker he loaned him. Gondo is evasive, asking why Clewell wants to know. Clewell cites the cost and Rayam jokes that Clewell can afford it. Clewell asks them to return it.

Sergeant Thomas Allers pulls up and pretends to be concerned that they need the assistance of their supervisor. He playfully boxes with Gondo and announces he is done for the day and is going to head to Pulaski highway for pit beef.

Gondo remembers the probable cause issue and toes the rear licence plate so that the frame drops down to cover the tag.

## Gondo interrogation - Allers

Sieracki and Jensen question Gondo about Allers on March 6th, 2017 at approximately 13:20. Gondo tentatively suggests that Allers is on their side now. He clarifies that Allers left the GTTF to join a federal task force, with the Drug Enforcement Agency. He tells them that Allers is no longer street police. Gondo notes that he believes the federal agencies have some skill but asserts that it was his team that were responsible for major drug and gun seizures on the streets. Gondo states that his team were the cops the department wanted.

## Comstat Presentation

On February 28th, 2017 Jenkins presents his unit's arrest and seizure data to the BPD Comstat meeting at headquarters. Deputy Commissioner of Operations Dean "DC" Palmere asks Jenkins for his opinion on why so many of their officers are reluctant to make arrests over the past two years. Commissioner Davis's seat beside Palmere is notably empty. Jenkins notes that the Freddie Gray indictments are the cause. He says that the officers involved got a raw deal but that the cases are coming out the right way in court, with the officers being acquitted of the charges. Jenkins claims that he cannot see any reason to stand down on making arrests personally. Palmere notes that citywide arrest figures are down 60%. Jenkins says that he can only speak for his own unit and that the GTTF have increased arrests in the last eight weeks and have been consistent in the post Freddie Gray era.

Lieutenant Marjorie German looks on smiling as Jenkins extols the virtues of the unit she oversees. Central District Commander Major R. Robinson questions whether Jenkins is concerned about being filmed by citizens while doing his job. Jenkins jokes that he would want them to get his good side. He points to photos on the conference room display screens showing the seizures made in the Collington square raid. He says that his unit gets guns off the street but need more overtime and more manpower to increase their productivity.

Robinson asks about the probable cause to allow them to stage the raid. Jenkins claims he used information from a confidential informant in the Eastern District that he has been working with for 18 months.

## Seven Arrests

Commissioner Davis is sat in his office looking devastated. He disbelieving repeats information he has just received from FBI Special Agent in Charge (SAC) Gordon Johnson - seven of his officers are going to be arrested as part of a corruption investigation. Johnson warns that the investigation may go further. Davis complains that he was not notified earlier. Johnson counters that Davis should be aware of the need to keep this kind of operation secret. Davis confirms that they plan to make the arrests the following day, March 1st, 2017.

## Post Comstat

After the Comstat briefing Palmere congratulates Jenkins and tells him that he has heard his request. Commissioner Davis pulls Palmere aside and asks him to arrange for Jenkins and six others to report to the Internal Affairs Division (IAD) offsite office on Kirk Avenue the following day. Palmere tells Jenkins it is related to a vehicular incident that he had failed to report correctly and asks him to be there at 09:00. Jenkins is seemingly unconcerned about the

## Jenkins arrest

On March 1st, 2017 Jenkins pulls in to the IAD parking area for his 9:00 appointment. He says good morning to a patrolman named Steve who is smoking in the lot. He passes another patrol officer, Charlie, on his way into the building.

Jenkins places his gun in a storage locker in the reception area, greeting Linda Nelson as he does so. He jokes with the IAD officers as they escort him upstairs. As he rounds the corner onto the first floor an FBI tactical team places him under arrest. He struggles with the four agents and claims that he is one of them. They tell him that he is not. Security camera footage shows that the arrest takes place at approximately 09:12.

## Jenkins interrogation

At 11:23 Jenkins is sat in cuffs in a holding cell with an FBI agent watching him. Outside the room Sieracki and Jensen wait with another agent. Sieracki asks what the hold up is is told they are waiting for SAC Johnson.

Johnson and Davis arrive. Johnson tells his people that the Davis wants just a moment with the prisoner. Sieracki nods at the commissioner who is stone faced as he passes.

Davis stares at Jenkins who defiantly looks right back without looking away. Davis swears and leaves the room. Sieracki and Jensen go inside. Davis tells Johnson that all of the others looked away, but not Jenkins.

Jenkins watches Sieracki and Jensen sit down and ask them if they know who he is.