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🗓️ 13 February 2024
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The FBI's investigation into the Gun Trace Task Force, codenamed Broken Boundaries, finally leads to arrests. But for federal prosecutors to prove their case against these rogue cops, they need to find witnesses willing to testify against them.
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0:00.0 | Wundry Plus subscribers can binge new seasons of American scandal early and ad free right now. |
0:05.7 | Join Wundry Plus in the morning on March 1st, 2017, and the FBI Command |
0:26.4 | Center outside Baltimore is buzzing with activity. Agents in every corner of the |
0:31.2 | room are pouring over computer screens or talking urgently on the phone. |
0:35.0 | And in the center of it all, Special Agent Erica Jensen is pacing back and forth mentally preparing herself for what's about to happen. |
0:44.0 | Sometime in the next hour, the members of the Gun Trace Task Force are scheduled to arrive at the Baltimore |
0:49.3 | Police Department's Office of Internal Affairs. |
0:52.2 | They think they've been called to discuss a recent |
0:54.2 | hit and run involving an unmarked police vehicle, but in reality an FBI SWAT team |
0:59.7 | is standing by to arrest seven members of the squad, including its leader Wayne Jenkins. |
1:06.0 | For Agent Jensen, today's arrests have been more than a year in the making. |
1:10.3 | She and her team have spent thousands of hours combing through records, listening on wiretaps and working witnesses all in preparation for this moment. |
1:19.0 | Jensen knows that arresting law enforcement officers is no easy feat. If they suspect |
1:24.4 | they've been set up or if they've been tipped off the officers could run or worse |
1:29.0 | turn violent. Years ago Jensen worked with a Chicago police officer who died by suicide just hours after he was brought up on corruption charges. |
1:38.0 | So every part of today's plan has been designed to minimize the risk of something like that or worse happening. |
1:45.3 | In the final minutes of the operation, Jensen doesn't have much left to do, but she's still |
1:50.1 | buzzing with nervous energy, so she crosses to an agent who's monitoring the |
1:54.1 | GPS on the squad members phones making sure none of them are fleeing the city to |
1:58.6 | avoid arrest. |
2:01.6 | Jensen sits down next to her colleague. How's it looking? Well, so far so good. |
2:08.0 | According to the phones, they're all in the Greater Baltimore area. Looks like Jenkins is going to arrive first. I wish we could just |
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