So you have to think thats making a difference. She was, perhaps, a counterculture rebel and social justice activist before her time. 2023 Home Box Office, Inc. All Rights Reserved. This text may not be in its final form and may be updated or revised in the future. 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. A far-reaching corruption scandal is the last thing Baltimore's troubled police department needs. English, Thailand With candid interviews from members of the Baltimore P.D., Suiters widow and children, journalists committed to uncovering the truth, 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. In a war, you count the bodies and then you call them victories., Its a strong editorial, but that does not make for a great show. The city knows that Suiter was going to testify against a group of corrupt cops and there is this history of corruption in the police department in Baltimore, then that lack of trust is amplified throughout this city., So the first theory that folks are thinking is, Of course you guys killed him. So the federal investigation that eventually brought Jenkins and some of his cronies to justice is no spoiler. But theres a lot of pushback of course. 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. Tells the story of the rise and fall of the Baltimore Police Department's Gun Trace Task Force and the corruption surrounding it. And Josh Charles (The Good Wife) plays impressively against type as Daniel Hersl, a bullet-headed task-force thug who makes Jenkins look like a diplomat. I think you identified it perfectly. 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. It wasnt that we heard about them all the time. Except, as The Slow Hustle soon reveals, things werent as cut and dried as they initially appeared. His elite unit came to be seen by senior commanders as a bulwark against chaos. Many residents in the city, especially in Black communities, just don't trust the. The GTTF further damaged the already troubled relationship between police and residents of Baltimore. See the full cast here. Reinaldo Marcus Green directs and serves as executive producer. 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. But at the same time, this was a police officer. He enjoyed the admiration and respect of his superiors and was given special privileges. There was no specific training for supervisors. Fenton, who worked as a consultant on the six-episode TV drama, says: It really is just absolutely staggering. We Own This City is still a very good show, with granular realism, a sly sense of humor and fine acting top to bottom. Rayam opens up about the GTTF. 890K views 5 years ago BALTIMORE Two Baltimore police officers are on trial this week in federal court for some of this worst misconduct imaginable. I think Baltimore does what it did to me and its a divine mirror. (SOUNDBITE OF DOCUMENTARY, "THE SLOW HUSTLE"). This malaise, Sohn points out, goes beyond Baltimore and policing in general. On Nov. 15, 2017, Suiter was accompanying his rookie partner David Bomenka on an assignment when he allegedly spotted a suspicious figure in an alleyway in the citys Harlem Park neighborhood. Rather than just railing against the GTTF, Watkins spends time discussing the numerous similarities he shares with one of the convicted officers in order to highlight how Baltimores problems are less about individuals than about the environment in which theyre raised and operate. They drove a short distance to a side street where Jenkins told Kostoplis to leave his phone and equipment in the van and get out. He was born in 1980 which, Fenton notes, means that Baltimore has been shrinking and struggling for most of his life. That produces a culture taken to its extreme, which it was in Baltimore by many, that the ends justify the means, Bromwich continues. Ex-po. The Wire had built into it the distinction between good police work (painstaking, intensive, focused on real harm) and bad (petty busts and harassment to drive up arrest numbers and make politicians look good). I dont know about the soul, because Nicole is the soul of the film, or maybe Nicole is the heart. Next June it will be 20 years since The Wire began its sprawling Dickensian portrait of Baltimore, Maryland, as a proxy for the decline and fall of the American empire. The cops once reportedly found a gun and a pound and a half of marijuana in an illegal warrantless search. 1 Season | 6 Episodes | TV-MA WATCH NOW Executive produced by George Pelecanos ( The Deuce) and David Simon ( The Wire) -- and based on the book by Baltimore Sun reporter Justin Fenton -- We Own This City is a six-hour, limited series chronicling the rise and fall of the Baltimore Police Department's Gun Trace Task Force. 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. It found an extended institutional failure of the police departments internal affairs along with broad supervisory breakdowns. English, New Zealand As of late March, 76 people had been murdered so far this year, up from 65 over the same period in 2021. The GTTF further damaged the already troubled relationship between police and residents of Baltimore, especially communities of colour. / 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. Six of the eight arrested pleaded guilty to the charges. They didnt trot these guys out for press conferences. Fenton has spoken to many people in Jenkins orbit and made multiple attempts to contact Jenkins in prison but without success. Sharp Dressed Man is the only program of its kind in the greater Baltimore area. Having thus stipulated, it would also be absurd to pretend not to notice the connection. The actor-turned-directors new film The Slow Hustle tells the story of a detective who was killed just before he was set to testify in a corruption case. Start from the beginning and watch the first episode ofWe Own This Cityfor free. English, Singapore What are little things like constitutional requirement such as probable cause or reasonable suspicion when Jenkins was quoted as saying that some of the advice he got early in his career was, Never let probable cause stand in the way of a good arrest? That says it all, which was the law was a pesky thing that you could ignore if you couldnt avoid it. They are joined by longtime collaborators Nina K. Noble as executive producer, and Ed Burns as writer/executive producer. In a war, civilians get hurt and nobody does anything. Baltimore's history of police corruption The scandal broke at a time of struggle and high tensions between Baltimore community members and the police department. Suiter faces distrust of the police at a crime scene. I got one officer down. By what name was The Slow Hustle (2021) officially released in Canada in English? The revelation that Suiter was granted limited immunity for testifying didnt clear anything up either; the fact remains that its conceivable he was executed for planning to rat out his friends, shot in a random skirmish gone wrong, or killed by his own hand in order to avoid facing future legal prosecution. 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. D. is what I would call a true son of Baltimore and a voice of Baltimore. Then I thought, okay, heres the possibility of actually solving the case. Director Reinaldo Marcus Green and writer D. Watkins, along with George Pelecanos and David Simon, discuss the importance of accuracy and authenticity when creating this series based on true events. That should be happening anyway. Four of them agreed to cooperate with the justice department and testified against the remaining two officers, both of whom were convicted by a jury in February 2018. WATCH NOW The Slow Hustle, an HBO original documentary from director Sonja Sohn (HBO's " Baltimore Rising " and " The Wire "), chronicles the still unsolved death of Baltimore police detective Sean Suiter, fatally shot in 2017 while in the line of duty, and explores the ongoing speculation about what really happened that day. With Bomenka around the corner, Suiter approached this figure, shots rang out, and Bomenka raced to the scene, whereas frantic bodycam footage illustrateshe found Suiter lying dead from a gunshot wound to the head. But day after day, the revelations keep coming. I think of Baltimore as my soul home, Sohn, 57, says by phone from North Carolinas Outer Banks. For years its plainclothes officers went on a a crime spree that included robbing people they stopped on the streets, planting drugs and guns on innocent people, invading peoples homes and stealing from them as well as fraudulently charging the city for working overtime. Was Suiter an unwitting participant in a scheme carried out by rogue cops? On Wednesday morning, former Baltimore police Sgt. English, India 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. 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. This emphasis on numbers and quantity over quality really had a corrosive effect on the police department and influenced the conduct of officers. 5 Takeaways From ESPNs (Newest) Bombshell Dan Snyder Report, The Bidens Went to Dinner and Ordered the Same Dish, Dividing the Internet, PHOTOS: 2023 Library of Congress Gershwin Prize Honoree Dinner Celebrating Joni Mitchell, Cherry Blossom Peak Bloom Is Predicted for March 22-25. They were working in the shadows, and deployed by the police department as another tool to roam the streets looking for guns.. The HBO drama is based on Justin Fentons nonfiction book of the same name. Through his early years on the force, Jenkins goes from learning how to scam the overtime rules to outright larceny. Through media arts education, Wide Angle Youth Media cultivates and amplifies the voices of Baltimore youth to engage audiences across generational, cultural, and social divides. (The 2021 HBO documentary The Slow Hustle, by the Wire alum Sonja Sohn, touched on aspects of the case.) And that case right there has a connection to many other cases that were in the public eye at the time. I had my moment of doing all of that. The Baltimore dialogue still has Old Bay piquancy, and some strong performances kick scenes to life. Police Sgt Wayne Jenkins is now serving a prison sentence until January 2039. In practice, theyre all about that brutality and then some. The corruption has cost Baltimore taxpayers more than $13 million in settlements with victims and hundreds of cases the corrupt officers worked on had to be thrown out. The authoritative record of NPRs programming is the audio record. info_outline, Includes: Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo - Brazzaville, Congo - Kinshasa, Cte dIvoire, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Guadeloupe, Guinea, Guyana, Madagascar, Mali, Martinique, Mauritius, Monaco, Niger, Runion, Senegal, Togo, Germany, Austria, Switzerland UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #1: Oh, my god. 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.. Director Sonja Sohn Stars Umar Burley Jill Carter Kevin Davis In April 2010, for example, Jenkins was involved in a reckless car chase that led to the death of an innocent motorist. NPR transcripts are created on a rush deadline by an NPR contractor. The Wires Sonja Sohn on her Baltimore documentary: We are seeing multilayered corruption, Director Sonja Sohn interviewing D Watkins for The Slow Hustle. English, Turkey Suiter is assigned to a new murder case. Underpinning it all is a Wire-style critique of institutions, in particular a police department so hollowed out by corruption that even the attempt to solve the death of one of its own is met with insurmountable doubts. 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. Suspicions were aroused that a hit had been ordered to silence him. While the April 2015 death of Freddie Gray, after a rough ride in a police van, is not depicted, it hangs over everything here, from Black Baltimoreans mistrust of the police to the post-Gray work slowdown by officers. THE SLOW HUSTLE includes insightful commentary from journalists who remain determined to speak truth to power, including Justin Fenton, author of We Own This City: A True Story of Crime, Cops and Corruption and D. Watkins, author of We Speak for Ourselves: How Woke Culture Prohibits Progress who believes the shooting death of Suiter could have been an inside job. The documentary focuses on Michael Dowd, a former police officer of 10 years, who was arrested in 1992, leading to one of . Bringing Jenkins and his ilk to justice does not mean Baltimores problems are resolved. You may know her for her role as a Baltimore police detective in the hit series "The Wire." What, he asks Steele, is driving the polices actions? How do we measure that, how do we quantify that, especially given the deep-seated bad feelings about this department?. How did you, as a filmmaker, you know, distinguish between fact and rumor? Wood Jr. woke up to find his phone full of thousands of new Twitter notifications. Theyre up in that supreme court and they are winning. Whatever happened to the cast? 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. Former members of the Baltimore Police Department, from internal affairs to the former commissioner, attempt to shed light on that fateful afternoon and the atmosphere within the department. 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. 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. Whats the mission?, Exactly. NPR's Adrian Florido speaks with director and actor Sonja Sohn about her new film, The Slow Hustle. Baltimore Police. Momodu Gondo finds himself in an interrogation. English, Bulgaria The creators, cast, and crew discuss the rigorous research and attention to detail that went into bringing this true story to life in Baltimore. The Baltimore Furniture Bank is a nonprofit organization in Baltimore City, fiscally sponsored by Fusion Partnerships, Inc. 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. Its remarkable.. How is this going to be investigated? English, Vietnam info_outline, Hungary We Own This City does not do much to explain Jenkins or complicate his villainy, but it is insightful about how a bad cop learns to be bad more effectively (and how he makes his colleagues worse). SOHN: Well, you know, that's a really good question because, yes, there was a lot floating through the air. 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. 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. Looking for more? Why isnt his death solved by now? Im sure those who are involved in policy making are in the midst of looking at how to develop a more nuanced strategy on some other levels because the folks who are in opposition are playing serious chess right now. 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 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. This prompted an FBI wiretap somewhat evocative of The Wire. Pelecanos and Simon also serve as writers. English, Japan He enjoyed the admiration and respect of his superiors and was given special privileges. The Bachelor Has Two Maryland Contestants. In workplaces across the country, the culture is changing quite a bit. 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. English, Pakistan Jenkins duly tested his colleagues willingness to put personal loyalty to him above their oaths to uphold the law. Its her second documentary since 2017sBaltimore Rising, which chronicled the uprising in Charm City that followed Freddie Grays death. That is D.s perspective within the film. He was previously with the Poynter Institute, TBD.com, and Washington City Paper. African-American police officer Sean Suiter is pronounced dead soon thereafter. She grew up in Newport News, Virginia, had a stint in New York as a slam poet and recorded an album in London. The GTTF officers provide additional damning evidence. His elite unit came to be seen by senior commanders as a bulwark against chaos. The Seven Five, also known as Seven Five Precinct, is a 2014 documentary directed by Tiller Russell, and produced by Eli Holzman, Aaron Saidman, and Sheldon Yellen.The film looks at police corruption in the 75th precinct of the New York Police Department during the 1980s. 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. I felt alone and I was happy. It is revealed that Suiter had been summoned to testify in the now infamous Gun Trace Task Force trial, an elite police unit that proved to be one of the dirtiest in Baltimores recent history. EN. I said, Where were you? The Slow Hustle, an HBO original documentary from director Sonja Sohn (HBOs Baltimore Risingand The Wire), chronicles the still unsolved death of Baltimore police detective Sean Suiter, fatally shotin 2017 while in the line of duty, and explores the ongoing speculation about what really happened that day. However, in this particular instance, the dynamics at play arent quite as clear-cut as that description makes them sound. His death set off a massive manhunt for the killer, and Suiter gets a hero's funeral. They connect people in need with high quality used furniture and household goods, helping them to establish a sense of pride and stability. BALTIMORE A documentary film profiling Baltimore's police department in the wake of Detective Sean Suiter's on-duty death is set to hit television and streaming services next month. And we're all not feeling protected nor served. English, United States The cast and crew explore Baltimore as a character, touching on the real people and locations portrayed in the series. Seven Baltimore Police officers indicted on federal racketeering charges THE SLOW HUSTLE debuts TUESDAY, DECEMBER 7 (8:00-9:30 p.m. ET/PT). 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. Do we extend that to law enforcement as well? 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. I think the other thing that really got me was understanding that with this crime not being solved, with this death not being solved, if the police are involved in that, then theyre willing to throw this family under the bus. The cast includes Jon Bernthal (The Walking Dead,Show Me a Hero),Josh Charles (The Good Wife,In Treatment), Wunmi Mosaku (Lovecraft Country), and Jamie Hector (BOSCH,The Wire), among many others. As "The Slow Hustle" (2021 release; 88 min.) How, why and by whom has never been solved. With Jon Bernthal, Wunmi Mosaku, Jamie Hector, Josh Charles. And there was all of this corruption that he was around. And with little apparent will to transform police departments (and their cultures of silence and coercion) or the political institutions that support them, it comes across as a deeply rooted malady for which theres no easy cure. And I think that's quite a journey that we're all on here, you know, in this country. Discovery, Inc. or its subsidiaries and affiliates. In an act of radical transparency, the Baltimore police department hired an outside investigator to conduct a review. What really got me with the Baltimore Rising cast is I saw them speak at a museum and I was like, Oh my god! I cried. Andrew Beaujon joined Washingtonian in late 2014. The unsolved case also sparked far-reaching implications for a city already grappling with the complexities of policing in contemporary, urban America. Like, even if youre a police officer, they really dont.. It spans dozens if not hundreds of incidents under our noses and theres reasons for that which I try to explain in the book. For every inept, violent Roland Pryzbylewski, there was a Lester Freamon, practicing the patient craft of building a case. Sohn was born to an African American father and Korean mother who met after the Korean war. Youre asking me about the word hope at a very particular time in my life, where Im engaging in a deeper sort of debate around the purpose of the word itself. He lives in Del Ray. Sohn cofounded ReWired for Change, a local outreach programme for at-risk youth, and made her directorial debut in 2017 with Baltimore Rising, which depicted the Black-majority city in the aftermath of the death of 25-year-old Freddie Gray in police custody. 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. Here, WWD looks at 11 new documentaries and docuseries to watch in December 2021. New Study: DC Is One of the Worst Cities for Decent-Size, Affordable Apartments, Baltimore Could Be DCs Hottest New Suburb, Lil Uzi Vert and Ice Spice Will Perform at This Years Broccoli City Festival, Rant About the Books You Hate at This Book Club on H Street, An Ex-Oath Keepers New Book Gives an Inside Look at the Far-Right Militia Involved in January 6, Trucker Convoys Began to Fail Their Way Around DC One Year Ago. He and members of the GTTF framed the two men that Jenkins had been pursuing by planting drug evidence. Last. Detectives Daniel Hersl and Marcus Taylor. The Feds prepare charges. 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. David Simon returns to a familiar beat for HBO, updating if not improving on an old critique. But it brought back the visceral sensation of being in Baltimore for the uprising that followed the death of Gray. This series may not change the game. The official podcast of the HBO Original Limited Series. 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. Local hero and cage-fighting super-cop Wayne Jenkins was federally indicted on racketeering charges, along with six other members of Baltimore's elite Gun Trace Task Force. So to me, that was a microcosm of the macrocosm. Crime in Baltimore has been at extraordinarily high levels for decades, he adds, leading to an emphasis on crime fighting and its quantification: numbers of arrests and seizures and other measures. She is the director of the new HBO documentary called "The Slow Hustle." I did not want to initially direct another film that involves law enforcement. Like many series right now, this one is using a nonfiction story to approximate the power of fictional drama. There are other theories. It is not a good look.. The Slow Hustle, which debuts Tuesday night on HBO and HBOMax, looks at the death of Baltimore Police Detective Sean Suiter, who lived in Prince Georges County and who was shot in the head in late 2017, the day before he was due to testify in a federal probe of police corruption. Copyright 2021 NPR. When institutions cant solve their own problems, the people suffer. I was sitting up at CBGBs [music club], the only Black girl with shaved hair, screaming, and I had a zine. The phones are smarter; the law enforcement machinery is not. English, Hong Kong At the center of The Slow Hustle is Baltimore Police Department detective Sean Suiter. English, Taiwan Nobody knew. You get a guy on a wiretap talking to drug dealers about drugs and then you just keep pulling that string.. 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