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80/100Critics
53/100Scholars
Author:
Justin Fenton
Publisher:
Random House
Date:
February 23, 2021
The true story of a Baltimore police corruption scandal from the Pulitzer Prizeânominated reporter who exposed a gang of criminal cops and their yearslong plunder of an American city.
What The Reviewers Say
It’s an old story line that somehow never gets old.
... takes its time, unspooling the history of the Gun Trace Task Force. Mr. Fenton is after more than the portrait of a few malcontents.
Clearly inspired by The Wire, Fenton populates his narrative with a network of officers, informants and street dealers, all with different motivations and interests. Some of these personalities come through more vividly than others, but the overall effect is to capture the disorienting, churning quality of a city where the good guys and bad guys aren’t easily distinguished.
In We Own This City Justin Fenton tells a story of bad people and bad attitudes, but—whether he intends to or not—his book reveals the way systemic discrimination operates, whom it affects and how it is sustained. His narrative is brisk and engaging.
