WEBVTT - Bad Cops | 2. The Wiretap

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<v Speaker 2>Previously on Bad Cops for weeks, Detective David McDougall has

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<v Speaker 2>been tailing Baltimore drug dealer Aaron Anderson. He suspects that

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<v Speaker 2>Anderson's been supplying a lot of the city's deadly heroine.

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<v Speaker 3>I started doing lengthy surveillances and following him, trying to

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<v Speaker 3>piece together his organization.

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<v Speaker 2>When McDougall finally moves in and arrests him, he finds

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<v Speaker 2>a mysterious GPS tracker stuck to the bottom of Anderson's car.

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<v Speaker 3>I'm thinking somebody else was on my guy and didn't

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<v Speaker 3>tell me.

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<v Speaker 2>McDougall discovers the device belongs to a Baltimore City cop,

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<v Speaker 2>but it's not police issue. The cop bought it with

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<v Speaker 2>his own credit card.

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<v Speaker 3>There's no way a police officer is going to pay

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<v Speaker 3>for his own tracker that really wasn't adding up.

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<v Speaker 2>After his arrest, Anderson tells McDougall that just a few

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<v Speaker 2>nights before, while he was out, two mass men kicked

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<v Speaker 2>down his door and ransacked his apartment. McDougall starts to

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<v Speaker 2>think the unthinkable.

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<v Speaker 3>At the time the home invasion happened, Anderson's far away

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<v Speaker 3>from his apartment. That is a great time to try

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<v Speaker 3>to steal his drugs and money because he's not there.

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<v Speaker 3>What if the police officer put the tracker on Anderson's

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<v Speaker 3>car the track his movements to conduct the home invasion.

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<v Speaker 2>A cop robbing a drug dealer, and not just any cop,

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<v Speaker 2>an officer from an elite, plain closed unit, one of

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<v Speaker 2>the crown jewels of the Baltimore Police Department. I'm Jessica

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<v Speaker 2>and hop and this is bad Cops from the BBC

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<v Speaker 2>World Service. The True Story of Baltimore's Gun Trace Task Force,

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<v Speaker 2>Part two, The Wire Tap. It's two thousand and seven.

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<v Speaker 2>The homicide rate in Baltimore is rising out of control.

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<v Speaker 2>As part of a new strategy to fight back, the

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<v Speaker 2>city's leaders create a specialized plane clothes unit, the Gun

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<v Speaker 2>Trace Task Force.

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<v Speaker 3>Their mission is to target gun dealers, trace guns used

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<v Speaker 3>in crimes, and stem the flow of illegal weapons.

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<v Speaker 2>This is supposed to be a smarter era of policing

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<v Speaker 2>in Baltimore. Plain clothes officers like the Gun Trace Task

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<v Speaker 2>Force are investigators. They don't answer nine one one calls.

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<v Speaker 2>They're not confined to any one part of the city.

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<v Speaker 2>They drive around in unmarked cars, wearing jeans and sneakers,

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<v Speaker 2>trying to blend in with the neighborhood on the streets.

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<v Speaker 2>Locals call these officers jump out boys because they pull

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<v Speaker 2>up fast on street corners, throw open the doors and

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<v Speaker 2>jump out on whoever runs. That's how they rack up

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<v Speaker 2>the arrests. The top brass love it. It means press

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<v Speaker 2>conferences with guns laid out on the table. The commissioner

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<v Speaker 2>gets to stand behind the podium looking good. The Gun

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<v Speaker 2>Traced Task Force are the Baltimore Police Department's Golden Boys,

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<v Speaker 2>but Detective David McDougall suspects that one of these Golden

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<v Speaker 2>Boys is involved in the robbery at the home of

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<v Speaker 2>drug dealer Aaron Anderson. It's a hunt he has to

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<v Speaker 2>keep a secret because if he's right, the implications are

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<v Speaker 2>massive and anyway, McDougall's a drug detective, it's not his

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<v Speaker 2>job to investigate other cops, so he takes his information

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<v Speaker 2>to the people who do the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

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<v Speaker 2>The case is assigned to FBI Special Agent Erica Jensen.

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<v Speaker 4>Yeah, no, he and I already talked about that, We're

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<v Speaker 4>going to do it this way, just to assure the

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<v Speaker 4>audio quality.

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<v Speaker 2>Erica Jensen's works some tough cases, running down Colombian and

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<v Speaker 2>Mexican drug cartels, trekking street gangs in Baltimore, and at

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<v Speaker 2>this point she's part of the FBI's public Corruption Squad

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<v Speaker 2>going after dirty cops and politicians. Investigating police is tricky work.

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<v Speaker 2>In the past, cases were blown when word of the

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<v Speaker 2>investigation leaked out.

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<v Speaker 4>Police officers no tactics. They know how law enforcement works,

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<v Speaker 4>so we knew that we had to be super careful,

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<v Speaker 4>and it did drive a lot of the techniques we

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<v Speaker 4>used and techniques we didn't use.

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<v Speaker 2>Agent Jensen knows she has to keep the case tightly

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<v Speaker 2>under wraps. No one outside of her team can be

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<v Speaker 2>allowed to know a thing, not even the Baltimore Police Commissioner.

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<v Speaker 2>Detective MacDougall briefs Agent Jensen about the mystery tracker he

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<v Speaker 2>found under the car of drug dealer Aaron Anderson and

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<v Speaker 2>how it was bought by a cop from this elite unit,

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<v Speaker 2>the Gun Trace Task Force. While McDougall continues his drug investigation,

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<v Speaker 2>agent Jensen starts looking into the task force officer. She's

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<v Speaker 2>looking for any kind of link between him and Anderson.

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<v Speaker 4>It was very plausible to me that there was a

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<v Speaker 4>police officer that might have been involved in protecting a

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<v Speaker 4>drug crew. That was where we were in the very

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<v Speaker 4>early stages.

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<v Speaker 2>But she finds no connection the task force officer. The

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<v Speaker 2>owner of the tracker is clean. Still, Erica's gut tells

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<v Speaker 2>her something's not quite right here, so she starts looking

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<v Speaker 2>into the other officers in the same unit, and she

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<v Speaker 2>pulls their files. One of them belongs to another detective

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<v Speaker 2>in the squad, Jammel Rayam, and as she's flipping through

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<v Speaker 2>the pages of his file, she spot something.

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<v Speaker 4>I shook my head like I must be looking at

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<v Speaker 4>like did I mix the files up? Like this can't

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<v Speaker 4>possibly be right?

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<v Speaker 2>Who was right? On a list of Ram's previous addresses,

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<v Speaker 2>she sees that he used to live on the same

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<v Speaker 2>street as Aaron Anderson, the dealer whose apartment was broken

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<v Speaker 2>into by the two masked men.

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<v Speaker 4>Not only was it the same street address, it was

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<v Speaker 4>the same apartment building. The apartments were one away from

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<v Speaker 4>each other.

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<v Speaker 2>Right away, she knows this can't be a coincidence.

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<v Speaker 4>He would have known how to get in the building.

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<v Speaker 4>He would have known what that door was like, he

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<v Speaker 4>would have known what the apartment looked like, just all

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<v Speaker 4>of it.

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<v Speaker 2>Now she's thinking, maybe Detective Ram was one of the

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<v Speaker 2>masked men at Anderson's apartment, and if Rayam is involved

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<v Speaker 2>in the home invasion, there's a good chance that his

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<v Speaker 2>task force partner is too, because they're not just work buddies,

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<v Speaker 2>they're really close. And this guy's name is Momodu Gondo.

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<v Speaker 4>That was the moment when I think I was like, yep,

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<v Speaker 4>they were in there. These guys did this. They did

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<v Speaker 4>this home invasion. They had to have.

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<v Speaker 2>Rumors have been floating around Gondo for years. He's from

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<v Speaker 2>a pretty rough part of northeast Baltimore, and he stayed

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<v Speaker 2>close with a few of his old friends from the neighborhood.

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<v Speaker 2>Some of them have grown up to be players in

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<v Speaker 2>the city's drug game, and when FBI Special agent Erica

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<v Speaker 2>Jensen starts looking through Gondo's phone records, she sees he's

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<v Speaker 2>in regular contact with a pretty major heroin dealer, Antonio Shropshire.

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<v Speaker 2>He's a rival of Aaron Anderson. Drug cop David McDougall

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<v Speaker 2>has been investigating both of these guys and he's been

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<v Speaker 2>running a wiretap on Shropshire and other members of his crew.

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<v Speaker 5>WHOA, what's that?

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<v Speaker 6>I ain't lying? You've got an attention stow yesterday?

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<v Speaker 7>Right?

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah?

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<v Speaker 6>Oh yeah yeah love Yo listen yo stolen yo I

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<v Speaker 6>mean oh no, no, I ain't know.

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<v Speaker 5>It's like that yo.

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<v Speaker 6>No yo, no, Yo, I ain't know it's like that yo.

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<v Speaker 2>Detective McDougall is pretty troubled by what he's hearing on

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<v Speaker 2>some of these calls.

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<v Speaker 3>This is a cop talking to a drug dealer. He

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<v Speaker 3>knows he's a cop, he knows he's a drug dealer.

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<v Speaker 2>It all sounds awfully suspicious, but it doesn't really prove anything.

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<v Speaker 2>McDougall needs way more to build his case. He needs

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<v Speaker 2>to know where Shropshire is going and who else he's

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<v Speaker 2>meeting with.

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<v Speaker 3>So we made a decision to put a tracker on

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<v Speaker 3>his car. It comes to the tracker again.

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<v Speaker 2>So with the tap on Shropshire's phone and now with

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<v Speaker 2>a tracker on his car, McDougall waits, he's in what

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<v Speaker 2>he calls the war room. It's where all the wired

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<v Speaker 2>tap calls come in. It's kind of hectic. He's got

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<v Speaker 2>a bunch of phone lines to monitor. Scribbled across a

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<v Speaker 2>whiteboard are all the tracker numbers they're using. And so

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<v Speaker 2>he's sitting there and then he's got a text message.

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<v Speaker 3>It's a GPS removal alert.

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<v Speaker 2>It's an alert that tells him one of his trackers

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<v Speaker 2>is being tampered with. McDougall's not immediately alarmed. He uses

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<v Speaker 2>a lot of trackers. He thinks it's probably an old

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<v Speaker 2>one from a previous job, but seconds later.

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<v Speaker 3>Door tamper alert.

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<v Speaker 2>The same tracker is now being opened and examined.

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<v Speaker 3>All right, now, I'm a little concerned, and I'm like,

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<v Speaker 3>what tracker number is at I pauls for a second,

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<v Speaker 3>and I scream at my partner he found the tracker.

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<v Speaker 2>Antonio Shropshire has discovered McDougall's tracker under his car.

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<v Speaker 3>We're complete nuclear meltdown mode at that point, looking at

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<v Speaker 3>each other like, at this point, there's something we can do.

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<v Speaker 2>What McDougall doesn't realize is that Shropshare has taken his

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<v Speaker 2>car in for service. The mechanics in the garage, put

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<v Speaker 2>the vehicle up on a lift and looking underneath, Shropshire

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<v Speaker 2>spots the device Back in the war room. As McDougall

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<v Speaker 2>is scrambling to figure out what to do next, a

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<v Speaker 2>number flashes across his screen. It's Shropshire's cell phone. He's

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<v Speaker 2>making a call. McDougall listens in.

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<v Speaker 6>Hello, hold up Poppy, Hello, what's up?

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<v Speaker 5>Brother?

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<v Speaker 2>Shropshire is calling his friend, Mamma Duke Gondo, the Task

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<v Speaker 2>Force detective, and he's got an important question for him.

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<v Speaker 6>I'm listening to the set the car to the shop, okay,

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<v Speaker 6>and uh, the thing was the thing was?

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<v Speaker 7>What it?

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<v Speaker 6>Okay?

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<v Speaker 2>Shropshire is telling Gondo. He's taken the car to the

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<v Speaker 2>shop and the car was lit. He means the tracker

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<v Speaker 2>he's just found underneath it. He wants Detective Gondo's advice,

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<v Speaker 2>and his friend is happy to oblige.

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<v Speaker 6>Yeah, basically, when that something like that happened, you know,

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<v Speaker 6>is basically you know what I mean. On the other side,

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<v Speaker 6>you know, it's just a loss you feeling, but definitely

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<v Speaker 6>somebody's been tracking you.

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<v Speaker 2>Somebody's been tracking you. Detective Gondo tells his friend someone

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<v Speaker 2>from the other side, the police, his own side. Then

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<v Speaker 2>Gondo seems to check himself. It's like he realizes he

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<v Speaker 2>said too much.

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<v Speaker 6>You know, I know no topics. So whatever you do,

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<v Speaker 6>you do.

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<v Speaker 2>I don't even know who I'm talking to. It's an

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<v Speaker 2>odd moment. Is Gondo thinking someone might be listening in?

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<v Speaker 6>Just be mindful? Yeah, just be mindful of that, brother,

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<v Speaker 6>that's whatever you do. But yeah, you definitely go get

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<v Speaker 6>rid over it.

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<v Speaker 2>The call ends with Gondo telling Shropshire to ditch the tracker.

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<v Speaker 2>In the war room, Detective McDougall is sitting there, floored

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<v Speaker 2>by what he's just heard.

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<v Speaker 3>Like the purposes phone call is, hey, help me out.

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<v Speaker 3>I'm your Joe Delar friend, and this is what's going on.

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<v Speaker 6>I need help you.

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<v Speaker 2>McDougall shares the call with Special Agent Erica Jensen, his

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<v Speaker 2>contact at the FBI. It's exactly what she's been waiting for.

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<v Speaker 4>It was what we would call like the dirty call,

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<v Speaker 4>the criminal call.

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<v Speaker 2>She's hoping she can now convince a judge to greenlight

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<v Speaker 2>a wire tap on Detective Gondo's cell phone.

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<v Speaker 4>You don't just write a wiretap on someone's phone because

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<v Speaker 4>they're a criminal. You have to show that they're using

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<v Speaker 4>their phone and furtherance of the crimes. And this was

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<v Speaker 4>the call that got us that.

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<v Speaker 5>Yeahs get the spicy chicken, no tomato, no no notice,

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<v Speaker 5>She's I mean no none as I mean.

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<v Speaker 2>Now, Agent Jensen's catching all kinds of snippets of conversation

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<v Speaker 2>from Gondo's phone. Most of it has nothing to do

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<v Speaker 2>with illegal activity, but it opens a window onto just

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<v Speaker 2>how close some of these guys really are. At one point,

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<v Speaker 2>Gondo even confides in a member OF's crew about his

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<v Speaker 2>ailing mother.

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<v Speaker 5>They're talking about my mother.

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<v Speaker 6>Gonna have to have hospite kid.

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<v Speaker 1>Man.

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<v Speaker 6>Yeah, you know what I mean. Shit won't be too

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<v Speaker 6>much longer. Man ass his course, right, Just know, whenever

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<v Speaker 6>you're ready talking right in, bro right right right right?

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<v Speaker 5>I got you, yo, all right.

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<v Speaker 2>The call ends with the dealer telling the cop that

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<v Speaker 2>he's there for him. It's a very human moment. But

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<v Speaker 2>even more suspicious than his calls with drug dealers are

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<v Speaker 2>Gondo's calls with his own Task Force partner, Detective Jamel

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<v Speaker 2>ram I can't do it no.

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<v Speaker 6>More, Yo. It's either we get it or we don't,

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<v Speaker 6>or we come close to something. But hey, and you

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<v Speaker 6>get away with.

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<v Speaker 5>A lot you know what I mean.

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<v Speaker 2>He's the cop agent Jensen suspects rob the home of

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<v Speaker 2>Shropshire's rival dealer Aaron Anderson.

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<v Speaker 4>I mean they have.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeo she I feel sure that Ram and Gondo are

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<v Speaker 2>up to something.

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<v Speaker 6>Stupid, stupid, yo, stupid.

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<v Speaker 2>But what exactly? It's impossible to know.

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<v Speaker 4>You hear conversations over a wiretap, but that's not everything.

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<v Speaker 4>So you only see a little piece of it, sometimes

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<v Speaker 4>just a tiny portion of it.

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<v Speaker 6>Not talking. That's what you got paid cash.

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<v Speaker 4>You don't see everything, and you're not hearing the whole

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<v Speaker 4>story about the dynamics. You're not hearing about conversations occurring

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<v Speaker 4>when they're not talking on the phone.

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<v Speaker 6>God.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, So what are her options? Well, one of them

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<v Speaker 2>is surveillance, but that's super risky. Gondo's a detective. He

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<v Speaker 2>knows how to spot a tail.

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<v Speaker 6>Me yo, he got a method to his men.

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<v Speaker 4>This was the kind of case where we did not

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<v Speaker 4>do a lot of surveillance for very good reasons. We

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<v Speaker 4>did a very small amount of surveillance, but we were

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<v Speaker 4>very careful to not get burned. To get seen and

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<v Speaker 4>identified by a subject. It does happen, because certainly they

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<v Speaker 4>would understand what that meant, and either they would change

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<v Speaker 4>their behavior their tactics, or they would stop the behavior altogether.

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<v Speaker 5>Imagine bringing up.

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<v Speaker 2>There is something else. She could try, bugging Gondo's vehicle

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<v Speaker 2>with a listening device, but that's going to take some

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<v Speaker 2>real planning. Gondo spends a lot of time in that car.

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<v Speaker 2>Agent Jensen decides bugging the car is her best option,

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<v Speaker 2>and the opportunity comes when Gondo leads town on a trip.

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<v Speaker 2>Jensen and her team have just a few hours to

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<v Speaker 2>execute the plan. An FBI unit races over to Gondo's house.

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<v Speaker 2>They disabled the car alarm, but they need more time.

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<v Speaker 2>It's a complex operation which could easily attract unwanted attention,

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<v Speaker 2>so they swapped the car out with an identical decoy vehicle,

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<v Speaker 2>and then they spirit Gondo's car off to another location.

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<v Speaker 2>They're the FBI technician and start installing the bug and

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<v Speaker 2>it's no easy job. Gondo's trained in surveillance. He knows

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<v Speaker 2>how to spot a listening device, so the agents have

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<v Speaker 2>to hide it someplace in his car where he'll never

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<v Speaker 2>find it. While the agents are doing that, under the

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<v Speaker 2>front seat of Gondo's car, they find something else. It's

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<v Speaker 2>a bag of heroin. It's a crazy discovery, but Erica

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<v Speaker 2>knows she's onto something much bigger, so she tells her

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<v Speaker 2>people put the heroin back. Finally they're done. Gondo's car

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<v Speaker 2>is now bugged and back just where he left it,

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<v Speaker 2>parked outside his house. The agents slip away unnoticed. The

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<v Speaker 2>next night, Gondo's out driving in his car. Riding up

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<v Speaker 2>next to him is his wingman, Jamel Raham. Agent Jensen

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<v Speaker 2>is in the FBI war room listening in. Almost all

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<v Speaker 2>of the gun trays task Force are out on this night.

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<v Speaker 2>They're riding in separate vehicles, and the bug hidden in

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<v Speaker 2>Gondo's car picks up the radio calls between them, they

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<v Speaker 2>spot a driver at a gas station. Something about him

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<v Speaker 2>attracts their attention, and the driver notices them too. He

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<v Speaker 2>hits the gas and takes off. The cops scrambled to follow.

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<v Speaker 6>The light.

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<v Speaker 2>No light, no lights, no lights, that's ram he's saying.

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<v Speaker 2>Not to turn on the red and blue flashing lights.

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<v Speaker 2>All Agent Jensen can hear are the sounds of engines

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<v Speaker 2>revving and broken bits of voices. Hello, you can't really

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<v Speaker 2>make it out on this recording, but there's just been

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<v Speaker 2>a huge wreck. The car they were chasing, blows through

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<v Speaker 2>a red light and plows into another car. Both vehicles

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<v Speaker 2>are totaled and the drivers are badly injured.

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<v Speaker 7>Oh like, go around, lay up the help out.

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<v Speaker 2>But Gondo, Raam and the rest of the unit don't stop.

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<v Speaker 2>They speed through the streets of Baltimore, driving a few

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<v Speaker 2>more blocks before finally they pull over. Behind them is Carnage,

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<v Speaker 2>but they seem more concerned that they might have been

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<v Speaker 2>caught on camera.

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<v Speaker 7>Wayne, y, they got here, but we didn't.

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<v Speaker 2>They reassure each other that no one saw them. Another

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<v Speaker 2>of the unit's detectives, Daniel Hersel, is even joking about it.

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<v Speaker 7>Hey, I was in the car, just driving out.

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<v Speaker 2>I was just driving home.

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<v Speaker 7>What but with Wayne all we heard like bullet Bardy,

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<v Speaker 7>what we could go with what he beardy?

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<v Speaker 2>We could go and stop the slips at ten thirty.

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<v Speaker 2>That's Daniel Hersel again. He's now suggesting they should falsify

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<v Speaker 2>their time cards, make it look like they weren't even

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<v Speaker 2>working when the accident happened.

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<v Speaker 7>That Wayne, you know, Carky, that what happened, you know, right.

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<v Speaker 2>That's the thing with Wayne, These car chases, this is

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<v Speaker 2>what happens they're talking about. Sergeant Wayne Jenkins, the leader

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<v Speaker 2>of the Gun Trace Task Force. He's known for making

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<v Speaker 2>big arrests and going beyond the call of duty. Just

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<v Speaker 2>the year before, he even got a bronze star for bravery.

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<v Speaker 7>Hey, I wonder what was that car? But I'll be cured.

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<v Speaker 2>Go back to HQ. That last voice is Jenkins. He's

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<v Speaker 2>ordering his men back to headquarters. In the FBI War Room,

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<v Speaker 2>Special Agent Erica Jensen has been listening to all of

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<v Speaker 2>this drama unfold.

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<v Speaker 4>At the time, we were you know what just happened.

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<v Speaker 2>She's just heard a group of police officers who swore

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<v Speaker 2>an oath to serve and protect fleeing the scene of

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<v Speaker 2>a serious accident that they caused, all on the orders

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<v Speaker 2>of their boss, Jenkins.

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<v Speaker 4>To me, it was just the dereliction of duty. The

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<v Speaker 4>way they hid, you know, and stood by but yet

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<v Speaker 4>didn't assist. It just bothered me a lot, you know,

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<v Speaker 4>I was angry about it.

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<v Speaker 2>The case is now blown wide open. Agent Jensen realizes

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<v Speaker 2>it's way bigger than she imagined. She thought the task

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<v Speaker 2>force might have a couple of dirty cops. Now she

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<v Speaker 2>believes most of the unit is rotten.

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<v Speaker 4>We are no longer looking at all, right, We might

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<v Speaker 4>have a couple guys that are basically associates of a

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<v Speaker 4>drug organization or a drug conspiracy. We have a whole

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<v Speaker 4>other set of conduct that's going on. So that was

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<v Speaker 4>really the beginning of the shift, I think in the investigation.

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<v Speaker 2>And right at the heart of it all is the

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<v Speaker 2>Baltimore Police Department's golden boy from the Gun Trace Task Force,

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<v Speaker 2>Sergeant Wayne Jenkins. So what else have Jenkins and his

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<v Speaker 2>crew been trying to cover up? And just how dirty

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<v Speaker 2>are these cops? That's next time you've been listening to

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<v Speaker 2>Cops from the BBC World Service with me Jessica Lussenhock.

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