We Own the City, which also stars Wunmi Mosaku, Jamie Hector, and Josh Charles, debuts on Monday, April 25. He also starred in the ABC comedy series Sports Night and the CBS legal drama The Good Wife. We Own the City depicts the inevitable corruption of a unit given this carte blanche. He stars in We Own This City as Officer Daniel Hersl. At the time of the GTTF scandal in 2017, though there were numerous indications of corruption within several plainclothes units going back almost a decade, Baltimore police commanders held to the belief that any street unit that could bring in guns and drugs consistently had to be championed and protected. Known for his wry sense of interaction and surging complaints, attorney Nicole Steele (Wunmi Mosaku) investigates the cop only to find that hes still on active duty despite roughing people up. We Own the City shows how the department’s desperate reliance on statistics over substance eventually led to the inability of department officials to supervise the Gun Trace Task Force and the further inability of the department to discipline rogue police. Daniel Hersl (Josh Charles) is one of the police officers on the radar for his rather 'problematic' approach to how he does his job. Some might know the pop culture gem the 1991 comedy Don’t Tell Mom The Babysitter’s Dead, which featured a 20-year-old Charles riding around in a clown car. In the 2000s, the Baltimore Police Department struggled to respond to crime with meaningful police work, giving itself over to mass arrest and drug warring instead. Actor Josh Charles has been in some of the most memorable ensemble pieces throughout his three-decade career. You can watch the trailer starring Jon Bernthal (there’s going to be a lot of confused Blue Lives Matter folks seeing their beloved Punisher as a crooked cop) above. Zorzi, and Ed Burns, all of whom also wrote for The Wire. The six-episode limited series is directed by King Richard‘s Reinaldo Marcus Green, while Simon worked on the scripts with George Pelecanos, William F. We Own the City “chronicles the rise and fall of the Baltimore Police Department’s Gun Trace Task Force and the corruption and moral collapse that befell an American city in which the policies of drug prohibition and mass arrest were championed at the expense of actual police work,” according to HBO. TV Reviews HBO’s ‘We Own This City’: TV Review The Wire creator David Simon, working again with George Pelecanos, returns to the streets and police precincts of Baltimore with a six-episode. His creative collaboration with the network continues with We Own the City, Simon’s first series set in Baltimore since The Wire. If David Simon makes something for HBO, whether it’s one of the greatest television shows of all-time ( The Wire) or a miniseries where Oscar Isaac has a mustache ( Show Me a Hero), it’s worth watching.
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