Part Four - Recap

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

## Cold Open

A run sheet details Wayne Jenkins reported activities on April 19th 2010. He is working as part of the Violent Repeat Offenders unit under the supervision of 2309. He records that he was working on crime suppression and surveillance around the 800 Block of Parkview Avenue.

He is accompanied by Detective Ryan Guinn. Jenkins tells Guinn that he avoided attending roll call because he has a feeling that there is criminal activity going on in the area. Guinn questions what Jenkins belief is based upon and he does not give any specifics, claiming he can smell that something is going on.

Jenkins watches a man load a backpack into the back seat of a black Honda Acura. He claims this is evidence of a drug deal going on and radios Detective Sean Suiter to tell him he wants to stop the two men in the Acura.

Jenkins pulls his vehicle in front of the target and Suiter pulls in behind them. They are both in unmarked cars with their sirens and lights on. The three detectives exit their vehicles with guns drawn. The driver of the Acura pulls up onto the sidewalk and drives around Jenkins vehicle. The squad return to their cars to give chase.

Guinn radios in their involvement and location. Jenkins rants at their target as he pursues them. Jenkins urges him to slow down after a near collision at an intersection. They are ordered over the radio to break off pursuit but Jenkins ignores this and switches it off.

Jenkins stays in close pursuit despite a second near miss. The Acura collides with a Monte Carlo as it passes through an intersection and rolls to a stop. The detectives apprehend the drive and the passenger and handcuff them. Jenkins asks why they fled and they say they did not know they were police. Jenkins does not believe them, saying they must have seen their lights.

He goes to check on the citizens in the other vehicle and radios for an ambulance. The drive is unconscious and bleeding from a head injury. His wife is conscious but inconsolable. Guinn searches the backpack and the arrestees and cannot find anything to justify the high speed car chase. Jenkins calls his sergeant for support.

## Guinn Meeting

Guinn meets with Sergeant John Sieracki and Special Agent Karen Jensen in a park. He discusses the 2010 incident with them. He explains that Jenkins was worried after the crash because there was insufficient justification to engage in the high speed chase. He elucidates that the tactics should be to use police helicopters to safely track anyone fleeing in a car.

Guinn explains that the driver of the Monte Carlo was pronounced dead on arrival at the Emergency Room at University Hospital. Flashbacks show the scene after the ambulance and police backup have arrived. Suiter and Guinn organise the uniformed officers to secure the area. Sergeant Keith Gladstone wanders the perimeter and approaches the Acura.

Jenkins asks Suiter to search the Acura again in case they missed anything. As Suiter moves towards the vehicle Gladstone walks away. Suiter puts on gloves. Jenkins watches him as he searches and nods as he reports finding drugs under the drivers seat. The driver, Umar Burley, immediately protests that they must have been planted.

## Ward Proffer Session

Detective Maurice Ward is interviewed by Assistant US Attorney Leo Wise of the Public Corruption Task Force as part of a proffer session on March 14th 2017. Special Agent Jensen and Sergeant Sieracki are also present, along with Ward's attorney. Wise asks Ward about the Umar Burley incident. Ward denies knowing anything, elaborating that he was not working with Jenkins at the time.

Ward looks pointedly at his attorney who announces that he has a prepared statement to deliver. Ward tells them that he knows what he did was wrong and was aware that his actions were wrong at the time. He says that he is genuinely sorry for his involvement, not just that he was caught. Jensen raises her eyebrows quizzically at Sieracki. Wise presses on asking Ward to confirm that once he began working with Jenkins in 2015 he was already a sergeant. Ward says that Jenkins invited him to join a new Special Enforcement Section (SES) squad at that time. Ward recalls being excited about the prospect because of Jenkins' positive reputation.

Ward does recall that Suiter, who he knew from his time working in the Western District, warned him that Jenkins was involved in crazy activity and to learn what he could from him quickly before leaving the squad. Suiter told Ward that the departmental command structure would protect Jenkins but target the other members of his team. Ward expresses regret at not listening to Suiter.

He discloses that he was aware that Jenkins had been temporarily reassigned after the State's Attorneys Office made a complaint about him. Wise asks why Ward went ahead in joining the unit and Ward responds that he made a poor decision.

Wise looks through a list that Ward has prepared. Ward admits that he may have forgotten some incidents when compiling the list as there were so many of them. Wise asks Ward to pick one to discuss. Ward offers to start with an incident at Belvedere Towers, called BT for short, from Spring 2015.

## BT incident

A title card introduces a flashback to April 2015. Ward was with Jenkins and Taylor in the Belvedere Towers neighborhood. Jenkins points out two men near a parked car. He tells the others they are going to check the trunk of the vehicle.

They activate their sirens and pull up, cuffing the two men and making them sit on the curb. Jenkins lies that he is a federal agent conducting a wiretap investigation and claims that while they are not the target of the investigation they need to search their car. Jenkins surreptitiously points out a nearby camera. He asks Ward to move their vehicle to obscure the camera angle on the trunk of the car he has targeted. The men protest that they do not have probable cause or permission to search the vehicle but their protests are ignored. Jenkins finds a pile of cash and pounds of marijuana in a bag in the car and transfers it to the unmarked police car. He orders the others to release the men and tells them they are free to go and should expect a target letter.

Jenkins then drives Taylor and Ward to a remote location. He shows them the money he stole and hands them each $5000. Taylor asks what Jenkins is going to do with the rest of the money and Jenkins says he plans to install a crash bar on his new departmental vehicle. Jenkins warns his subordinates to be careful how they spend the money to avoid drawing attention. They prepare to leave and Jenkins suggests they visit a strip club named Millstream. Ward stays by the trunk and returns his $5000 to the bag containing the rest of the stolen money.

## Ward Proffer Session

Having completed retelling the story of the April 2015 robbery Ward claims that he returned his share of the money. Wise is suspicious and asks him to explain why he would do this. Ward responds that his wife is also a BPD Officer and is clean so would not tolerate him bringing home stolen money. He adds that he was scared of being caught in the theft, not knowing who the men they robbed were and if they could be working as federal informants. Ward reasserts that he returned the money.