From the Center for Investigative Reporting in PRX, this is reveal. I'm Alex.

This is a scene shot with a police officer's cell phone camera.

Four or five cops are prying open a safe with a crowbar.

They crank a few times.

The safe opens and reveals bundles of cash wrapped in rubber bands.

That's their sergeant.

He's telling them to do everything by the book. Everything they learned at the police academy.

Take photos, don't disturb a crime scene.

Keep recording, no one's touching us.

It looks like a police raid in progress, but it was all a show.

You see, moments before the cops shot this footage, they'd already opened the safe.

And stolen $100,000.

They left $100,000 behind to stage their phony cop work and fake everyone out.

For years, these cops were part of a specialized elite unit in Baltimore, Maryland called the Gun Trace Task Force.

Six detectives and two sergeants were supposed to be in charge of getting bad guys with guns off the street.

Instead, they used their badges to get in homes, cars, searching wherever they wanted and taking whatever they wanted.

They robbed people, stole drugs and planted evidence.

They covered all of this up and then faked their time sheets to almost double their salaries while they were doing it.

Baltimore was already notorious. The city's per capita homicide rate is among the highest in the nation.

On top of all of this, the Gun Trace Task Force operated their eight-man crime rate.

They were caught after a year-long FBI investigation and tried on federal racketeering charges.

Mary Rose Madden, a reporter for W.I.P.R. in Baltimore, pulls apart the story of a police unit on Rogue.

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