Looking for more? The Slow Hustle doesnt deliver a definitive resolution to its central question. She was, perhaps, a counterculture rebel and social justice activist before her time. Jenkins name appears in the opening shot of We Own This City, an HBO drama that chronicles the rise and fall of the Baltimore police departments gun trace taskforce (GTTF), described in an independent report as the most shocking corruption scandal in Baltimores history. With candid interviews from members of the Baltimore P.D., Suiters widow and children, journalists, lawyers and political leaders, The Slow Hustle examinesthe continuing mystery surrounding Suiters deathand the multiple theories that emerge in the investigation of the case, including that Suiters death was a calculated murder hit or a suicide. The official podcast of the HBO Original Limited Series. The Baltimore Furniture Bank is a nonprofit organization in Baltimore City, fiscally sponsored by Fusion Partnerships, Inc. For every inept, violent Roland Pryzbylewski, there was a Lester Freamon, practicing the patient craft of building a case. Momodu Gondo finds himself in an interrogation. Last. Det James Kostoplis testified that, soon after joining the GTTF, he was asked by Jenkins to go for a ride. This emphasis on numbers and quantity over quality really had a corrosive effect on the police department and influenced the conduct of officers. But these challenges continue and I wonder how we will know if the department has fixed itself. The Wires Sonja Sohn on her Baltimore documentary: We are seeing multilayered corruption, Director Sonja Sohn interviewing D Watkins for The Slow Hustle. Thats a terrible fucking idea. / Reports showed that Suiter had been presentand involved in some waywith a 2010 incident in which GTTF members, using unmarked cars, attempted to rob two Black men who subsequently fled the scene, resulting in a car chase and auto accident that killed an innocent motorist. I had my moment of doing all of that. It spans dozens if not hundreds of incidents under our noses and theres reasons for that which I try to explain in the book. Engaging the journalists was, I think, one of the better decisions that I made. I need a unit medic right now. But then things get messy when it's reported that Suiter was killed just a day before he was supposed to testify in a case against several fellow officers accused of corruption. French One thing that we all knew is that there were way too many details in this case that were conflicting. Fenton explains in a phone interview from Baltimore: It started as a way to try to do more sophisticated gun trafficking cases. And we're all not feeling protected nor served. The creators, cast, and crew discuss the rigorous research and attention to detail that went into bringing this true story to life in Baltimore. I think investigators fell ass-backwards into this case. Here we have a case in which a cop has fallen and ultimately one of the major obstacles to solving this death, this mystery, this crime is the fact that the police cant be trusted. What I knew from the get-go was that the crime scene was going to be critical, so there was going to have to be a graphics person on board to help us illuminate some of those details. He says: He was regarded well within the police department as someone who was good at his job, who had this eye for driving down the street and seeing somebody make a movement and it turns out that person has a gun. Baltimore Police officers found guilty in Gun Trace Task Force corruption case. Jenkins duly tested his colleagues willingness to put personal loyalty to him above their oaths to uphold the law. I was railing when there was nobody railing with me. His elite unit came to be seen by senior commanders as a bulwark against chaos. As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. A unit of the Baltimore Police Department, the Gun Trace Task Force, was supposed to target guns and drugs on the city's streets. That produces a culture taken to its extreme, which it was in Baltimore by many, that the ends justify the means, Bromwich continues. Copyright 2021 NPR. The Slow Hustle starts with shocking footage of Suiters body being discovered (Oh, my god!, Sean, no! The latter, in the seriess view, allowed crime to spike and in turn motivated the police brass to ignore Jenkinss crimes until a federal investigation exposed them. Exploring crime-related stories and the issues surrounding them, the anthology includes: 2023 Warner Bros. English, New Zealand Except, as The Slow Hustle soon reveals, things werent as cut and dried as they initially appeared. Interview The Wire's Sonja Sohn on her Baltimore documentary: 'We are seeing multilayered corruption' David Smith in Washington The actor-turned-director's new film The Slow Hustle tells the. (SOUNDBITE OF DOCUMENTARY, "THE SLOW HUSTLE"). THE SLOW HUSTLE is included in a collection of four gripping documentary titles that debut on Tuesdays, beginning November 23. THE SLOW HUSTLE, a feature documentary directed by Sonja Sohn (HBO's "Baltimore Rising", "The Wire"), chronicles the still unsolved death of Baltimore police detective Sean Suiter, fatally shot in the head in 2017 while in the line of duty, and explores the ongoing speculation about what really happened that day. Suiter died just a day before he was due to testify before a federal grand jury investigating an elite Baltimore police unit, part of one of the worst law enforcement corruption cases in recent US history. Ive been waiting for you all my life and now youre here and Im an old lady. But lets see what I can do. Jenkins Waynes. English, Korea Supervisors had no incentive to report misconduct by their underlings because, given the culture of the police department, that would put them in a bad odour in the rest of the department.. I dont think were losing momentum. I didnt know how much I had been impacted by it physically until 2020 came and I saw the correlation, she says. A still from "Adrienne.". The streets, the drug houses, the cops pursuing petty busts to drive up their stats you can almost hear the voice telling you to keep the devil way down in the hole. Through his early years on the force, Jenkins goes from learning how to scam the overtime rules to outright larceny. Read on for more. Greenwich Entertainment has just. I believe that this film substantiates further in a different way how broken the structure of law enforcement is. Led by interviews with Salons D. Watkins (a Baltimore native), The Baltimore Suns Justin Fenton and WMAR-TVs Brian Kuebler, Sohns film immerses itself in a city plagued by pervasive distrust of the police, thanks to a long history of corruption, harassment and murderthe most recent and notorious example of which was the 2015 killing of Freddie Gray. And I felt that the rumors, you know, also have some validity because there is a history of corruption, though rumors, you know, can't always be proven. Its like someone describing how they first stole money. The film is about one of the nation's biggest police corruption scandals. HBO doc The Slow Hustle examines the mysterious death of Baltimore cop Sean Suiter, who was set to testify against police corruption and then was found with a bullet in the head. By Samuel Sasu April 26, 2022. Having thus stipulated, it would also be absurd to pretend not to notice the connection. English, Denmark Late in the series, she meets with Brian Grabler (Treat Williams), a retired detective turned critic of the department, who makes a Socratic case that the war on drugs has failed. A far-reaching corruption scandal is the last thing Baltimore's troubled police department needs. SOHN: First and foremost, it speaks to the lack of trust that the people of the city have in law enforcement not only in Baltimore, but across the country. That twist alone makes The Slow Hustle a fascinating whodunit, and complicating matters further, it eventually came out that Suiter may not have been as clean as people thought. FLORIDO: Your film really does document the Baltimore Police Department's long history of corruption. Spanish, Brazil He was previously with the Poynter Institute, TBD.com, and Washington City Paper. The phones are smarter; the law enforcement machinery is not. Wood Jr. woke up to find his phone full of thousands of new Twitter notifications. And I used the investigative journalists and their journalistic ethics and expertise first and foremost as, I guess, the first sort of filter and sieve through the facts. She comments: Everybody walks away from the film seeing that the suicide implication is pretty serious and, if youre going to imply that, then youd better have really stiff, unshakeable evidence. THE SLOW HUSTLE follows Detective Suitors widow and local investigative reporters as they work to get answers in the Suiter case and hold the Baltimore Police Department and City Hall accountable. They connect people in need with high quality used furniture and household goods, helping them to establish a sense of pride and stability. D. is what I would call a true son of Baltimore and a voice of Baltimore. What it does offer, however, is a forlorn perspective on a major metropolis whose police force has so betrayed the publics trust that the truth is now impossible to determineand, consequently, cynicism reigns supreme regarding the powers-that-be. I feel like the city is a reflection of my own psyche. The convicted officers were sentenced to prison terms ranging from seven to 25 years. It wasnt that we heard about them all the time. But the spirit of those protests also seems reflected in this new story. But it brought back the visceral sensation of being in Baltimore for the uprising that followed the death of Gray. His report, published in January this year, ran to 515 pages and sought to explain how a scandal of such proportions could begin and continue for years without being detected. That revelation leads to speculation that maybe Suiter's killing was an inside job meant to keep him quiet, or that maybe he took his own life. Oh, Lord. Fenton comments: We have years and years of lawsuits, of complaints, of opportunities to catch them and it was this suburban drug investigation that led to them getting caught. In workplaces across the country, the culture is changing quite a bit. The police department is now under federal oversight but the decades-old spectre of corruption lingers. Jensen monitors Gondos calls. Fenton, who worked as a consultant on the six-episode TV drama, says: It really is just absolutely staggering. He and members of the GTTF framed the two men that Jenkins had been pursuing by planting drug evidence. A few days earlier, the 35-year-old Marine corps veteran had begun tweeting about his 11 years in the Baltimore Police Department and all the things he had seen that he now felt needed to be shared. Suspicions were aroused that a hit had been ordered to silence him. Bernthal (recently of the Sopranos prequel, The Many Saints of Newark) makes a convincing baby gangster, arrogant and petulant, growing sloppier and greedier. Eight members of the Gun Trace Task Force (GTTF) were being investigated for a wide range of offenses, including shaking down citizens, filing false paperwork, committing civil rights violations, and making fraudulent overtime claimsas well as rolling around town in unmarked cars while wearing black hockey masks, robbing drug dealers of their narcotics and cash, and then planting evidence on them to send them up the river. This prompted an FBI wiretap somewhat evocative of The Wire. Documentary Crime After Baltimore Police Detective Sean Suiter is killed in the line of duty, the tragedy soon becomes enmeshed in a widening corruption scandal that threatens to unravel the public's already strained relationship with law enforcement. NPR transcripts are created on a rush deadline by an NPR contractor. In HBOs We Own This City, Jon Bernthal plays Sgt. And the rumors start to tear Baltimore apart. Its that systemic rot which proves to be The Slow Hustles fundamental subject. How did you, as a filmmaker, you know, distinguish between fact and rumor? That is D.s perspective within the film. Im not victimising real people if I steal some of their ill-gotten gains, so if I go into their homes and I find $100,000, Ill take $20,000 of it and nobody will be the wiser because these are people who are compromised and theyre not going to complain and, if they do complain, nobodys going to believe them because theyve got criminal records., You take that and you multiply it by a large number of officers who get captured by that culture and what you get is the gun trace task force., We Own This City airs on Mondays on HBO in the US, on Binge and Foxtel Now in Australia, and in the UK at a later date, The Wires Sonja Sohn on her Baltimore documentary: We are seeing multilayered corruption, Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning. Wayne Jenkins (Jon Bernthal), who as the real-life head of Baltimores Gun Trace Task Force turned that elite plainclothes unit into a state-run gang, skimming cash and drugs from raid targets and using his status in the department to cover up abuse, corruption and deadly procedural violations. English, India Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning. Their solution: They sold the drugs and firearm back onto the street. He also learns a sense of entitlement; the seriess title comes from a speech in which he tells his cronies that as long as we put those numbers up by making arrests, they can do what they want. How, why and by whom has never been solved. FLORIDO: The officer shot that day in 2017 was Baltimore Police Detective Sean Suiter. English, Indonesia English, English Speaking Africa An independent review board ruled that the 43-year-old detective had in fact shot himself a finding that his family and others vehemently reject. Whats the mission?, Exactly. Despite numerous complaints, Hersl is placed on the GTTF. Start from the beginning and watch the first episode ofWe Own This Cityfor free. It also tracks several local journalists, including Baltimore Sunreporter Justin Fenton andSalon editor-at-large D. Watkins, while they parse the investigation into Suiters death to its official andto many, including Suiters familyunsatisfying conclusion. English, Italy Former Baltimore Police Gun Trace Task Force detective sentenced to 10 years in prison. SOHN: Well, you know, that's a really good question because, yes, there was a lot floating through the air. Obvious answers werent forthcoming, but many came to think that if the latter were true, Suiter might not have been murdered at all; rather, he could have committed suicide, and staged it to look like a homicide so that his family would receive his full post-mortem benefits. And I think that its a very valid perspective, which is why I made sure it was included in the film. I was sitting up at CBGBs [music club], the only Black girl with shaved hair, screaming, and I had a zine. Once they realized that the rules that supposedly exist didnt really exist, its a slippery slope into saying, Well, Im dealing with bad guys and theyve made a lot of money through dealing drugs or whatever. Sonja Sohn directed "The Slow Hustle." English, Bulgaria THE SLOW HUSTLE debuts TUESDAY, DECEMBER 7 (8:00-9:30 p.m. ET/PT). English, Argentina Kostoplis was transferred out of the GTTF soon after. You may know her for her role as a Baltimore police detective in the hit series "The Wire." Her first feature documentary Baltimore Rising portrayed the city in the aftermath of Freddie Grays death and THE SLOW HUSTLE continues her work focusing on Baltimore and its inherent racial and socio-economic problems. None, it seems, let Baltimore get under their skin as much as Sonja Sohn, who played police detective Kima Greggs the first major portrayal of a Black lesbian on American television on the trail of drug lords in the five-season drama. I got one officer down. In an act of radical transparency, the Baltimore police department hired an outside investigator to conduct a review. He was law enforcement. Whatever Happened to Permanent Daylight Saving Time? The editor, Donna Marino, she had something to do with that. Watch these additional moments featuring Sean Suiter's family attorney, Jeremy Eldridge. In a war, you have enemies. Executive produced byGeorge Pelecanos (The Deuce) and David Simon (The Wire) -- and based on the book by Baltimore Sun reporter Justin Fenton --We Own This Cityis a six-hour, limited series chronicling the rise and fall of the Baltimore Police Department's Gun Trace Task Force. Police Sgt Wayne Jenkins is now serving a prison sentence until January 2039. Was his death a calculated effort to keep him silent, or was Suiter himself a cop under scrutiny with a past he couldnt face? HBO Documentary Films presents A Blowback Production THE SLOW HUSTLE director and producer, Sonja Sohn; executive producers, Marc Levin, Kary Antholis, Sonja Sohn; supervising producer, Daphne Pinkerson; producer, Mahrya MacIntire. "The Slow Hustle" is the title of a new HBO documentary out now. I felt alone and I was happy. In a war, civilians get hurt and nobody does anything. D Watkins, a local journalist and author who shares the view that Suiters death could have been an inside job, says in the film: What developed for me out of the whole story is this whole idea of Black lives really dont matter. The unsolved case also sparked far-reaching implications for a city already grappling with the complexities of policing in contemporary, urban America. We Own This City Review: Baltimore Police Problems, Rewired, https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/24/arts/television/we-own-this-city-review.html. Ultimately, the journey reveals how theculture of corruption within the ranks of the Baltimore police forcecontributed to the destruction of the publics trust and impacted the police departments ability to solve a shooting deathof one of its own. In 2017, Baltimore was rocked by the federal indictment of Wayne Jenkins, a highly decorated super-cop and leader of. Suiter faces distrust of the police at a crime scene. Adapted from former Baltimore Sun reporter Justin Fenton's 2021 book , the show chronicles the rise and fall of one of the most shocking instances of police corruption in Baltimore's history. All rights reserved. It tells how a shift in policing strategy in 2007 led to the creation of the GTTF amid concern that police had spent too long pursuing drugs rather than guns. There are other theories. Sgt Wayne Jenkins was the ringleader and is the central protagonist of the book and TV series. Coming to the city was was kind of a reckoning with my own self. With no reliable eyewitnesses to the crime, a harried if largely clueless search ensued, most of it predicated on a generic description of a Black man in a dark jacket with a white stripe. And hes the worst officer doing the worst things.. We Own This City, the anticipated new drama from The Wires David Simon, cracks open the story of a corrupt Baltimore police unit fallen from grace. Here, WWD looks at 11 new documentaries and docuseries to watch in December 2021. Watkins is the most outspoken of The Slow Hustles many talking heads, but even he confesses that anythings possible when it comes to Suiter, given that its difficult to ascertain the nature and degree of his involvement with the GTTF. A detective in a nearby county traces a string of overdoses to Baltimore. The crime drama series is based on Justin Fenton's 2021 nonfiction book of the same name and stars . Two former Baltimore Police officers sentenced to a combined 454 years in federal prison for shaking down citizens in the early 2000s had their prison terms reduced to 20 years each by a. It has nothing to do with my level of desire. I consider Baltimore to be as much of a home to me as the place where I grew up in Virginia. They didnt trot these guys out for press conferences. Theres a whole philosophical debate around human beings, and, you know, are they inherently good or evil? That case gives the series its shape and through-line, but also a relentless, repetitive structure. So there was something different. From top left, Daniel Hersl, Evodio Hendrix, Jemell Rayam, Marcus Taylor, and from bottom left, Maurice Ward, Momodu Gando, Wayne Jenkins and Thomas Allers. WJZ has covered the real-life Gun Trace Task Force investiga. See production, box office & company info, Undercurrent: The Disappearance of Kim Wall, Bad tidings in the Baltimore Police Department. The authoritative record of NPRs programming is the audio record. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #1: Oh, my god. Sonja, thank you for joining us. It wasnt a very large initiative, just a handful of officers, a single unit, and they went about their work with little fanfare. Will members of the community reach out to us? The corruption and civic woes the show details, as in much of Simons work (Treme, The Deuce), are systemic. English, Japan Spanish, Colombia Sohn is also sceptical. They are joined by longtime collaborators Nina K. Noble as executive producer, and Ed Burns as writer/executive producer. In April 2010, for example, Jenkins was involved in a reckless car chase that led to the death of an innocent motorist. info_outline, Hungary NPR's Adrian Florido speaks with director and actor Sonja Sohn about her new film, The Slow Hustle. Maybe this is intentional. Includes: Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo - Brazzaville, Congo - Kinshasa, Cte d'Ivoire, Djibouti . It hasnt escaped David Simon and George Pelecanos, the creator and a producer of The Wire, who have returned to their geographic and rhetorical turf with We Own This City, beginning on HBO Monday. Debuting on Dec. 7 on HBO, The Wire actress Sonja Sohns sophomore directorial effort is, like 2017s Baltimore Rising, a story about racial unrest and institutional misconduct in Baltimore, all of it once again revolving around dirty cops and a dead Black man. Baltimore prosecutors want greater flexibility to undo convictions after Gun Trace Task Force scandal. Whatever happened to the cast? But the GTTFs reign of impunity was cut short when a suburban drug investigation happened to reveal one officers contacts with a drug organisation. Nobody knew. As he notes, despite numerous different mayors and police commissioners, nothing much has changed in Baltimore over the years aside from the names of those engaging in criminal activity. Filmmaker and actress Sonja Sohn of "The Wire" returns with the follow-up to her 2017 documentary"Baltimore Rising." The new film, titled "The Slow Hustle," looks to be an equally powerful look. It's been three years since Baltimore erupted in a series of protests over police violence, exposing deep divisions between the city's police department and the community.The protests captured national attention - prompting a federal investigation - and several high-profile efforts at reform.Now a new scandal is threatening to undermine those efforts, raising questions about the depth of police corruption in Baltimore, and the institutional forces that allow corrupt officers to remain on the street.Fault Lines returns to Baltimore as new details emerge about an elite plain-clothes police unit that, for years, doubled as a criminal gang - robbing residents, planting evidence, and sending countless innocent people to jail.The unit operated with impunity in part because of the way police complaints are investigated.In Baltimore - like many other cities - if a police officer is accused of wrongdoing, the complaint is investigated behind closed doors by the police department's own Internal Affairs Division.Fault Lines investigates how this latest police scandal once again places Baltimore at the centre of a national debate over how and whether police departments can be held accountable to the communities they police.- Subscribe to our channel: http://aje.io/AJSubscribe - Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AJEnglish - Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera - Check our website: https://www.aljazeera.com/#AlJazeeraEnglish #BaltimorePolice #Fautlines Seven Baltimore Police officers indicted on federal racketeering charges The HBO drama is based on Justin Fentons nonfiction book of the same name. Jenkins followed in his fathers footsteps by joining the Marines but happened to leave with an honourable discharge just a month before the September 11 terrorist attacks. Maurice Ward recounts how Jenkins remained unscathed despite several illegal incidents. [11/16/21 - 11:00 AM] HBO Documentary "The Slow Hustle," A Searing Look at Corruption Within the Baltimore Police Department After a Detective's Fatal Shooting, Debuts December 7 You know, you cant have a badge on your chest and do things like that.. Executive producers George Pelecanos, David Simon, cast, and crew go behind the scenes. Dominic West went on to play Prince Charles in The Crown; Wendell Pierce took on Willy Loman in a London stage production of Death of a Salesman; Idris Elba starred in Luther, Thor and Cats; Michael K Williams burned brightly in Boardwalk Empire and others before his jarring death in September. For HBO: senior producer, Sara Rodriguez; executive producers, Nancy Abraham and Lisa Heller. 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