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Join Wundry Plus in the Wundery app or on Apple Podcasts. 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 Department. Unlike most cops, Jenkins and his team don't have to

wear uniforms or respond to 911 calls. Instead, they go out into the streets looking for signs of

illegal activity, and when Jenkins is leading the mission, the team usually finds what

they're looking for. And after a couple of blocks, Jenkins spots something.

Up ahead, a black man in his mid to late 30s is getting into a minivan with a backpack slung over his shoulder.

And Jenkins experience, any man over 18... with a backpack slung over his shoulder.

And Jenkins experience, any man over 18

wearing a backpack is suspicious.

So Jenkins radios to the other officers on his team.

It's go time.

Trailing behind Jenkins is a second car filled with the other officers on his team, and at the

sound of Jenkins signal, they speed toward the minivan and block it in from the back. Jenkins follows blocking it in from the

front. Officers spring out of the second car, swarming the minivan while Jenkins

watches from the sidelines. Within two minutes, two officers signal they've got a hit.

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