A federal investigator starts pulling financial records on an elite Baltimore police unit and finds that the officers everyone credited with fighting crime were running a criminal operation of their own.
What is We Own This City about?
We Own This City follows the Baltimore Police Department's Gun Trace Task Force through the investigation that exposed its officers as the source of much of the corruption they were supposed to be stopping. The series moves between the unit's daily routines on the street, the federal probe closing in around them, and the political pressure inside the department to keep arrest numbers high no matter the cost. Rather than building toward a single twist, the show lays out how a small group of plainclothes officers accumulated power over years, and how the drug-enforcement policies driving their department made that possible. It treats the task force's downfall as the product of a system, not just a handful of bad actors, tracking commanders, prosecutors, and street-level detectives as they each confront what the unit actually did.
About the cast
Jon Bernthal anchors the series as the task force's most notorious officer, playing him with a swagger that never tips into cartoonish villainy. Wunmi Mosaku's federal investigator gives the show its outside eye, while Jamie Hector and Josh Charles play department figures caught between institutional loyalty and what the evidence forces them to see. David Corenswet and Rob Brown round out a large ensemble built to show corruption from multiple vantage points at once.
Context & significance
The series comes from the creative team behind earlier acclaimed Baltimore-set crime dramas, and it carries the same interest in institutions over individual heroics. Rather than a conventional police procedural, it functions closer to investigative journalism translated to television, built from firsthand accounts of officers, prosecutors, and residents who lived through the case.
Watching We Own This City on Ktime
We Own This City is available on K-Time with a free account login, offered with both a Persian dub and Persian subtitles. K-Time's Farsi-first interface lets Persian-speaking viewers choose whichever option suits them without switching apps or languages mid-session.