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I got a monster : the rise and fall of America's most corrupt police squad / Baynard Woods and Brandon Soderberg.

Woods, Baynard, (author.). Soderberg, Brandon, (author.).

Summary:

"The explosive true story of America's most corrupt police unit, the Gun Trace Task Force (GTTF), that terrorized the city of Baltimore for half a decade. When Baltimore police sergeant Wayne Jenkins said he had a monster, he meant he had found a big-time drug dealer-one that he wanted to rob. This is the story of Jenkins and the Gun Trace Task Force (GTTF), a super group of dirty detectives who exploited the some of America's greatest problems: guns, drugs, toxic masculinity, and hypersegregation. In the upside-down world of the GTTF, cops were robbers and drug dealers were the perfect victims, because no one believed them. When the federal government finally arrested the GTTF for robbery and racketeering in 2017, the stories of victims began to come out, revealing a vast criminal enterprise operating within the Baltimore Police Department. Cops planted heroin to cover up a fatal crash that resulted from a botched robbery. They stole hundreds of thousands of dollars, faked video evidence, and forged a letter trying to break up the marriage of one of their victims to keep his wife from paying a lawyer. And a homicide detective was killed the day before he was scheduled to testify against the crooked cops. This is the shocking history of the rise and fall of the most corrupt cops in America"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781250221803
  • ISBN: 1250221803
  • Physical Description: 300 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 25 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : St. Martin's Press, 2020.
Subject: Baltimore (Md.). Police Department. Gun Trace Task Force > Corrupt practices.
Police corruption > Maryland > Baltimore.

Available copies

  • 2 of 2 copies available at Lehigh Valley Library System.

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  • 0 current holds with 2 total copies.
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Bethlehem Main Library 364.132 (Text) 33062009316853 Adult Nonfiction Available -
Easton Main Library 364.1 W894i (Text) 31901004446086 Adult Nonfiction Available -

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