5/25/2023 0 Comments We own this city book![]() ![]() ![]() Drug and violent crime are surging, and Baltimore will reach its highest murder count in more than two decades: 342 homicides in a single year, in a city of just 600,000 people. Riots are erupting across the city as citizens demand justice for Freddie Gray, a twenty-five-year-old Black man who has died under suspicious circumstances while in police custody. The astonishing true story of "one of the most startling police corruption scandals in a generation" ( The New York Times ), from the Pulitzer Prize-nominated reporter who exposed a gang of criminal cops and their yearslong plunder of an American city "A work of journalism that not only chronicles the rise and fall of a corrupt police unit but can stand as the inevitable coda to the half-century of disaster that is the American drug war."-David Simon, author of Homicide, co-author of The Corner, and creator of The Wire Baltimore, 2015. ![]()
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