Like most of the cops on the show, Jenkins is an unsettling combination of hero and villain. Bernthal’s performance is perfectly pitched, oozing arrogance and insecurity simultaneously. He’s played with suitable macho swagger by Jon Bernthal (“The Punisher”) - the alpha male in a gang of alpha males. The show’s central figure is Wayne Jenkins, once the BPD’s golden boy thanks to a string of high-profile drugs and weapons seizures. It's fertile ground for Simon and his frequent collaborator, the brilliant crime novelist George Pelecanos, giving them plenty of scope to explore some of Simon’s favorite themes: The moral failings of US authorities race poverty the pointlessness of the ‘War on Drugs’ and the value of individuals standing up for what is right. The six-episode miniseries is based on a nonfiction book of the same name by Baltimore Sun reporter Justin Fenton. In 2017, all eight members of the task force were convicted of racketeering - padding their own pockets by making fraudulent overtime claims, lying to investigators, and shaking down citizens (sometimes criminals, sometimes not) for money.
The six-episode miniseries - based on a nonfiction book of the same name by Baltimore Sun reporter Justin Fenton - tells the story of the Baltimore Police Department’s ill-fated Gun Trace Task Force, charged with hunting down and confiscating the drugs, guns and money plaguing the city’s streets. AMMAN: David Simon, creator of one of the finest TV shows of all time, “The Wire,” revisits the city in which that series was set - Baltimore -in “We Own This City.”
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