We Own This City 2022 We Own the City is set in Baltimore 2015 Riots are erupting across the city as citizens demand justice for Freddie Gray, a 25 year old Black man who has died under suspicious circumstances while in police custody Drugs and violent crime are surging, and the city is reaching its highest murder count in more than two decades 342 homicides in a single year, in a city of just 600,000 people Facing pressure from the mayors office as well as a federal investigation of the department over Grays death Baltimore police commanders turn to a rank and file hero, Sergeant Wayne Jenkins, and his elite plainclothes unit, the Gun Trace Task Force, to help get guns and drugs off the street However, behind these new efforts, a criminal conspiracy of unprecedented scale was unfolding within the police department Entrusted with fixing the citys drug and gun crisis, Jenkins chose to exploit it instead