[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 Richard Gonzales. Premiering Dec. 7 on HBO and its streaming service, HBOMax, "The Slow Hustle" is said to provide an inside look at the Baltimore Police Department by exploring Suiter's "mysterious" death and . English, Vietnam Like, even if youre a police officer, they really dont.. 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. 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. This low profile helped insulate the GTTF from public scrutiny and allowed it go rogue. There are poignant moments at the fallen officers graveside and at an anniversary vigil. (SOUNDBITE OF DOCUMENTARY, "THE SLOW HUSTLE"). This text may not be in its final form and may be updated or revised in the future. His elite unit came to be seen by senior commanders as a bulwark against chaos. 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. English, India But theres a lot of pushback of course. However, in this particular instance, the dynamics at play arent quite as clear-cut as that description makes them sound. Really, The Wire isnt the only show the setup brings to mind. 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. 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. 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. 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. With Jon Bernthal, Wunmi Mosaku, Jamie Hector, Josh Charles. I can make a movie. At this point we are less than 10 min into the documentary. Spanish. 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. 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. 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. The police department is now under federal oversight but the decades-old spectre of corruption lingers. Long history of neglect: why are missing Black people still less likely to be found? Whats the mission?, Exactly. 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. English, Taiwan In a war, you have enemies. He noted that the location of the lethal gunshot indicated that it could have been a self-inflicted wound, but later remarked that if Suiter was trying to cover up a suicide, he wouldnt have shot himself in the head; instead, he would have fired at his chest, which would have made it resemble a murder. Sharp Dressed Man is the only program of its kind in the greater Baltimore area. 2023 Home Box Office, Inc. All Rights Reserved. This emphasis on numbers and quantity over quality really had a corrosive effect on the police department and influenced the conduct of officers. See the full list of We Own This Citycast and charactershere. I said, Where were you? SOHN: Well, you know, that's a really good question because, yes, there was a lot floating through the air. But it brought back the visceral sensation of being in Baltimore for the uprising that followed the death of Gray. Pelecanos and Simon also serve as writers. Sean!) in an alley in West Baltimore, an area notorious for poverty, segregation and violent crime. English, Indonesia Accuracy and availability may vary. English, Australia Spanish, Colombia Funding social structures that support the people is just a given. Baltimore and its scandal-plagued Gun Trace Task Force comes into focus in the documentary I Got A Monster, the feature directorial debut of Kevin Abrams. 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. Many residents in the city, especially in Black communities, just don't trust the. 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. Bromwich, a senior counsel at the law firm Steptoe, says by phone: People were promoted without any sense of whether they would be capable of managing people. The Baltimore Furniture Bank is a nonprofit organization in Baltimore City, fiscally sponsored by Fusion Partnerships, Inc. When we spoke recently, I asked what drew her to Detective Suiter's case. 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. By what name was The Slow Hustle (2021) officially released in Canada in English? I had my moment of doing all of that. As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Over the years, as I describe in the book, it lost that focus and was just another unit of plainclothes officers running around the city. The phones are smarter; the law enforcement machinery is not. 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. NPR's Adrian Florido speaks with director and actor Sonja Sohn about her new film, The Slow Hustle. Officers tell me that its a new day over there and everybodys wearing body cameras all the time, which wasnt the case until pretty late in the investigation of the gun trace taskforce. Read on for more. English, Hong Kong The Feds prepare charges. The Baltimore Animal Rescue and Care Shelter (BARCS) is the largest companion animal shelter in Maryland. Through his early years on the force, Jenkins goes from learning how to scam the overtime rules to outright larceny. Their solution: They sold the drugs and firearm back onto the street. Oh, Lord. 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. 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. English, Denmark THE SLOW HUSTLE is included in a collection of four gripping documentary titles that debut on Tuesdays, beginning November 23. We Own This City is still a very good show, with granular realism, a sly sense of humor and fine acting top to bottom. 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. February 12, 20188:02 PM ET. But day after day, the revelations keep coming. 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. But this type of casual everyday lying, stealing, misrepresenting information, in some cases framing people its hard to prove and for that reason it often went unaddressed., The misconduct continued despite the outcry over Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old African American man who died of neck injuries suffered in police custody in April 2015. But these challenges continue and I wonder how we will know if the department has fixed itself. Maryland State Senator Jill P. Carter helps contextualize some of the social and political misdeeds that have led to an environment that so easily breeds institutional misconduct. At this point, its a more nuanced game. 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. You were filming as this was all playing out in real time. See the full cast here. So you have to think thats making a difference. For every inept, violent Roland Pryzbylewski, there was a Lester Freamon, practicing the patient craft of building a case. This series may not change the game. The more I looked into it, the stranger it seemed. Rayam opens up about the GTTF. 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. 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. Police stuffing their pockets and rationalizing it as their just dues was the subject of The Shield (itself inspired by a Los Angeles police scandal), which celebrates its own 20-year anniversary this spring. 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. I think of Baltimore as my soul home, Sohn, 57, says by phone from North Carolinas Outer Banks. Baltimore's largest police corruption scandal is in the national spotlight with a new HBO drama. His book A Bigger Field Awaits Us: The Scottish Soccer Team That Fought the Great War was published in 2018. The cops once reportedly found a gun and a pound and a half of marijuana in an illegal warrantless search. Instead, its members were convicted on corruption charges. The Slow Hustle contains interviews with Suiters widow and children, lawyers, politicians and investigative journalists, and Baltimore police including former commissioner Kevin Davis. It found an extended institutional failure of the police departments internal affairs along with broad supervisory breakdowns. As of late March, 76 people had been murdered so far this year, up from 65 over the same period in 2021. Nick. The creators, cast, and crew discuss the rigorous research and attention to detail that went into bringing this true story to life in Baltimore. 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. Baltimore Police officers found guilty in Gun Trace Task Force corruption case. Jenkins then asked Kostoplis what he thought about investigating a high-level drug dealer, determining where he kept his money and stealing it. FLORIDO: Your film really does document the Baltimore Police Department's long history of corruption. 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. You know, I think we're already, across the country, not trusting our law enforcement. 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. "Adrienne". 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. Except, as The Slow Hustle soon reveals, things werent as cut and dried as they initially appeared. English, Singapore Fenton commented: Every officials talking about reform, reform, reform and you think that all eyes are on the police department and everybodys behaving their best and yet this is going on. Its arguments are bold and impossible to miss. NPR transcripts are created on a rush deadline by an NPR contractor. 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. What you might miss is the vivid human tapestry that brings this kind of institutional analysis to life on the screen and keeps it alive in your memory. But unlike that venerated saga, We Own This City is based on the true story told in the journalist Justin Fentons nonfiction book of the same name. The crime drama series is based on Justin Fenton's 2021 nonfiction book of the same name and stars . Then I thought, okay, heres the possibility of actually solving the case. 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. As Nicole Steele, a civil-rights-division attorney, Wunmi Mosaku does all she can to create a character who feels her mission deeply and who chafes at her departments resistance to real change. As "The Slow Hustle" (2021 release; 88 min.) And I have about as much hope that his death will be solved as I do the rest of them. Maurice Ward recounts how Jenkins remained unscathed despite several illegal incidents. Discovery, Inc. or its subsidiaries and affiliates. The HBO drama is based on Justin Fentons nonfiction book of the same name. But the GTTFs reign of impunity was cut short when a suburban drug investigation happened to reveal one officers contacts with a drug organisation. Fenton writes that the police commissioner Frederick Bealefield insisted that police were not going after everyone in Baltimore any more, just bad guys with guns. The authoritative record of NPRs programming is the audio record. 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. All those season-ending montages seemed to say: No matter how you feel about the end of this or that particular story, the beat goes on. Seven Baltimore Police officers indicted on federal racketeering charges 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. info_outline, Hungary In an act of radical transparency, the Baltimore police department hired an outside investigator to conduct a review. Fenton has spoken to many people in Jenkins orbit and made multiple attempts to contact Jenkins in prison but without success. You know, it took a minute to gain their trust. opens, it's "November 15, 2017" and we hear a frantic 911 call about a Baltimore police officer having been shot, and we then get the body cam footage as cops arrive on the scene. Sonja Sohn, who played Baltimore cop Kima Greggs onThe Wire and who founded a Baltimore-based nonprofit, directs the film. By Samuel Sasu April 26, 2022. English, France It opens as Jenkins gives a speech to his unit in which he seems to say the right things that beating on people gets in the way of doing the job and that, in the task force, were not about that kind of brutality. 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 unsolved case also sparked far-reaching implications for a city already grappling with the complexities of policing in contemporary, urban America. English, Philippines Andrew Beaujon joined Washingtonian in late 2014. Copyright 2021 NPR. So rumors and speculation ran rampant about what really happened to Officer Suiter, not just among residents, but also among politicians, among journalists. African-American police officer Sean Suiter is pronounced dead soon thereafter. Two Baltimore plainclothes police detectives were convicted Monday of racketeering, robbery and fraud in a trial involving a wide range of criminal . But at the same time, this was a police officer. A 2016 Department of. We Own This City is based on the true story of the Baltimore police department's Gun Trace Task Force division and the corruption that . One thing that we all knew is that there were way too many details in this case that were conflicting. That should be happening anyway. In March 2017, eight members of the GTTF were indicted and arrested on federal charges of robbery, extortion, overtime fraud and selling drugs seized during police operations. For HBO: senior producer, Sara Rodriguez; executive producers, Nancy Abraham and Lisa Heller. 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. English, Belgium Suiter faces distrust of the police at a crime scene. 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. Like many series right now, this one is using a nonfiction story to approximate the power of fictional drama. To return to our unfair comparison, The Wire believed that systemic forces mattered more than individual failure or triumph. But it is a pointed reminder that after all this time to quote a series that remains quotable for a reason the game is the game. When institutions cant solve their own problems, the people suffer. 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