Bad Cops
In Baltimore, Maryland, an elite group of plainclothes officers called the Gun Trace Task Force gets hundreds of illegal guns off the streets every year. Secretly, however, these detectives are also robbing people, selling drugs, planting evidence and framing innocent people. When some of the officers go too far, it triggers an FBI investigation that reveals the Gun Trace Task Force as one of the most corrupt police squads in American policing history. Jessica Lussenhop tells the story of the rise and fall of this once-powerful unit of officers, and its leader Sergeant Wayne Jenkins. And she asks: why do good cops go bad?
Episodes
- 8 Episodes
Hosts & Guests
Sad View of My Hometown
Feb 9
I hate how accurate it is. Baltimore gets a lot of bad publicity and maybe that is part of why the police are the way they are. They are pushed to do a near impossible job. Most of the city has a lot of crime & cooperating with police is its own death sentence. Police are pushed to accomplish near impossible tasks between volume and lack of experienced & honest officers. Being a Balto police officer is horrible and violent and if you are good…you may not survive if you stay beyond your rookie years. This contributes to the corruption. The most senior members are only a few years out of the academy and they stay because of what they can get away with. The people training and leading are corrupt. This doesn’t excuse what they do. It is just an explanation of why, no matter how much money is thrown at the department. No matter how many times new upper brass is hired and fired, it won’t change.
Tip Of The Iceberg
Jan 30
Disgraced police officer Wayne Jenkins has the absolute audacity and delusion to believe that what he and his criminal conspirators did doesn’t warrant a 25 year sentence. You did a great job in showing his lack of a moral compass and highlighting that this was just the tip of the Iceberg and that the whole Baltimore Police Department was complicit. There’s much more to this story
Back the Blue
05/25/2022
I’m bothered how you make out some of their heroic acts as if they weren’t on the front lines in harms way. I feel safe when drug dealers and gang bangers are locked up in a correctional facility. Free Wayne Jenkins!
Great
05/23/2022
I really only like this podcast because it has Wayne Jenkins on it himself. Being from Baltimore..I must say it’s really infuriating for her to continue to reference the criminals as “victims”. Yes, there were a few actual victims. However the majority of these people were criminals.. gang bangers and drug dealers. They were not “victims “ lol police go out there and risk their lives every single day to get paid chump change and struggle to feed your family. All they would’ve been doing was feeding the money back into the corrupt system going to the top dogs.
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- CreatorBBC World Service
- Years Active2K
- Episodes8
- RatingClean
- Copyright© (C) BBC 2021
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