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A review by gatun
We Own This City: A True Story of Crime, Cops, and Corruption by Justin Fenton
5.0
We Own This City is the very complex story of corruption within the Baltimore Police Department, specifically the Gun Trace Task Force. Justin Fenton, the author, lays the story out in a manner that makes it understandable. I was not familiar with the GTTF corruption case, although I was familiar with several issues of the BPD having cops who committed crimes. Step by step Mr. Fenton leads the reader/listener from the start with drug and money robberies to the men sent to jail who while not completely innocent did not deserve the crimes they were charged with.
Two parts of this book unsettled me beyond the cops who were criminals. So many people were affected, men wrongly jailed, their families losing them, and their statements were never given equal weight or even consideration to the GTTF's statements. The detective who was murdered or committed suicide with the truth never to be positively determined. I cannot imagine the pain his family has gone through. Yes, he was guilty of participating in the GTTF's crimes but his family was not. To have that question never resolved, murder or suicide, seemed a hell that no one deserves.
Dion Graham is an incredible narrator. I first heard him narrating No Gods, No Monsters. We Own This City is non-fiction and in Mr. Graham's hands, it becomes a mystery/thriller that you do not want to stop listening to.
Two parts of this book unsettled me beyond the cops who were criminals. So many people were affected, men wrongly jailed, their families losing them, and their statements were never given equal weight or even consideration to the GTTF's statements. The detective who was murdered or committed suicide with the truth never to be positively determined. I cannot imagine the pain his family has gone through. Yes, he was guilty of participating in the GTTF's crimes but his family was not. To have that question never resolved, murder or suicide, seemed a hell that no one deserves.
Dion Graham is an incredible narrator. I first heard him narrating No Gods, No Monsters. We Own This City is non-fiction and in Mr. Graham's hands, it becomes a mystery/thriller that you do not want to stop listening to.