In the spring of 2017 police corruption scandal rocked the city of Baltimore and at the heart of it was an elite undercover unit called the gun trace task force.

American scandal is a podcast from Wundery that takes you deep into the most infamous

scandals in American history.

From presidential lies to environmental disasters and corporate fraud. Their new season looks at a Baltimore police unit that

was supposed to get guns off the street and reduce violence in the country but

they operated with little oversight and instead became a breeding ground for rogue cops.

We on the gist actually had a documentarian and the prosecutor who went after them.

The new wondery program goes further.

Federal officials undercover a team that was abusing the gun task force's power,

leading to the officers being charged with robbery extortion fraud

and selling drug seized during police operations.

Some are quick to dismiss the arrest as a case of a few bad apples, but an investigation would

later reveal a culture of corruption that was systemic within the

Baltimore PD and had been for a long time. you are about to hear a preview of American scandal while you're

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It's March.

It's March 2016 in Baltimore, Maryland.

Sergeant Wayne Jenkins sits behind the wheel of an unmarked police car, scanning the sidewalk as he drives down a residential street in the northwest section of the city.

It's mid-afternoon and outside Jenkins window all he can see are local kids walking home from school while some older folks in the

neighborhood sit on porches watching the cars go by. It all looks perfectly

quaint, but Jenkins knows that in the city of Baltimore things aren't always what they seem.

Jenkins is the leader of an elite plainclothes unit within the Baltimore Police

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