Tensions Rise In Cop Drama We Own This City Trailer

Tensions rise in Baltimore between cops and civilians in the first trailer for upcoming cop drama We Own This City coming to SKY Atlantic in June.

Developed by The Wire creators David Simon along with George Pelecanos, and directed by Reinaldo Marcus Green. We Own This City chronicles the rise and fall of the Baltimore Police Department’s Gun Trace Task Force and the corruption and moral collapse that befell an American city in which the policies of drug prohibition and mass arrest were championed at the expense of actual police work.

Jon Bernthal (The Walking Dead, King Richard) leads this cast in this 6 part limited series. The trailer packs a lot into it’s short running time, from the complexities and dangers. Also the police brutalities, prejudice and corruption rotten the core of the force. If you are missing The Wire or a good solid police drama, this might fill that gap…

In the 2000s, the Baltimore Police Department struggled to respond to crime with meaningful police work, giving itself over to mass arrest and drug warring instead. WE OWN THIS CITY shows how the department’s desperate reliance on statistics over substance eventually led to the inability of department officials to supervise the Gun Trace Task Force and the further inability of the department to discipline rogue police. At the time of the GTTF scandal in 2017, though there were numerous indications of corruption within several plainclothes units going back almost a decade, Baltimore police commanders held to the belief that any street unit that could bring in guns and drugs consistently had to be championed and protected. WE OWN THIS CITY depicts the inevitable corruption of a unit given this carte blanche.

The limited series also stars Josh Charles, Wunmi Mosaku, Jamie Hector, Dagmara Dominczyk, Treat Williams, McKinley Belcher III, and Rob Brown.

We Own This City will be released on SKY Atlantic and NOW from June.