Bad Cops | 2. The Wiretap

Summary

"Bad Cops" | Episode 2: The Wiretap

Podcast: The Burden
Host/Reporter: Jessica Lussenhop (BBC World Service)
Date: June 30, 2026

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Episode Overview

The Wiretap dives deeper into the story of Baltimore's Gun Trace Task Force, an elite police unit meant to curb gun violence, and how it became a nest of corruption. As Detective David McDougall uncovers strange evidence while investigating a drug dealer, suspicion turns toward the police themselves. With help from FBI Special Agent Erica Jensen, the investigation shifts from the streets to within the ranks—culminating in secret recordings, botched chases, and the exposure of shocking criminal behavior by supposed heroes.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Discovery of Police Corruption in the Elite Unit

• Detective David McDougall is tracking drug dealer Aaron Anderson and unexpectedly finds a GPS tracker on Anderson’s car, bought privately by a Baltimore city cop, not with department funds (00:44–01:06).
  • “There’s no way a police officer is going to pay for his own tracker. That really wasn’t adding up.” — Detective David McDougall (01:06)
• Anderson reports a home invasion when he is out, prompting McDougall to theorize that a cop might have used the tracker to target the apartment for robbery (01:13–01:45).
  • “What if the police officer put the tracker on Anderson’s car to track his movement to conduct the home invasion?” — Detective David McDougall (01:27)

2. The FBI Gets Involved

• McDougall turns his suspicions over to the FBI’s Public Corruption Squad, specifically Special Agent Erica Jensen (03:15–04:25).
• Jensen's early investigations show no connection between the suspected officer and Anderson—but she digs further (05:45–05:56).
• She discovers that Detective Jamel Rayam, another member of the Task Force, once lived in the same apartment building as Anderson, only one door away (06:22–06:47).
  • “I shook my head—did I mix the files up? This can’t possibly be right… Not only was it the same street, it was the same apartment building.” — Special Agent Erica Jensen (06:22, 06:39)

3. Links to Drug Dealers—And the Start of the Wiretap

• Jensen suspects Rayam and his close partner, Detective Momodu Gondo, were the ones involved in the home invasion (07:16–07:25).
• Investigation reveals Gondo is in regular contact with Antonio Shropshire, a major heroin dealer and rival of Anderson (07:25–07:56).
• McDougall has already placed a wiretap on Shropshire (08:05).
• On the wiretap, Gondo and Shropshire are caught having casual, mutual conversations, clearly aware of each other's roles as cop and drug dealer.
  • “This is a cop talking to a drug dealer. He knows he’s a cop. He knows he’s a drug dealer.” — Detective David McDougall (08:32)
• McDougall places a tracker on Shropshire’s car, which is quickly discovered, triggering a flurry of activity and panic among investigators (09:35–10:15).

4. “The Dirty Call”

• Gondo advises Shropshire about the tracker, tacitly acknowledging the police are tracking Shropshire—potentially alerting him to official investigations (11:21–12:40).
  • “Somebody’s been tracking you...someone from the other side, you know…it’s just a loss, you feel me?” — Detective Momodu Gondo (11:50)
• McDougall is stunned by what he hears, recognizing this as a drug dealer seeking help from his friend, the cop (12:52).
  • “The purpose of this phone call is, hey, help me out. I’m your drug dealer friend, and this is what’s going on. I need help.” — Detective McDougall (12:52)
• Jensen describes this moment as “the dirty call”—the critical evidence needed to get a court-approved wiretap on Gondo’s phone (13:07).
  • “It was what we would call…the dirty call, the criminal call.” — FBI Special Agent Erica Jensen (13:07)

5. Unveiling the Web—Personal Bonds and Human Moments

• The new wiretap opens up not just evidence, but also moments of humanity—Gondo confides in a dealer about his mother’s health (14:02–14:23).
  • Dealer to Gondo: “Just know, whenever you’re ready to talk, I’m right here, bro.” (14:17)
• Yet, conversations between Gondo and Rayam remain cryptic and suspicious—they discuss tens of thousands of dollars, cash, and their weariness with their situation (14:40–15:03).

6. Challenges of Investigating Cops

• Jensen emphasizes the difficulty of surveilling corrupt cops, who understand investigative tactics (15:10–16:04).
  • “We did a very small amount of surveillance, but we were very careful to not get burned…they would change their behavior or stop altogether.” — FBI Special Agent Erica Jensen (15:43)

7. High-Stakes Moves—Bugging the Cop’s Car

• Jensen’s team seizes the chance to bug Gondo’s car when he leaves town. During the process, they find heroin hidden inside, but opt to put it back, prioritizing the larger investigation (16:08–17:35).
• The car bug captures a wild scene: the Gun Trace Task Force, including Rayam and Gondo, initiate a dangerous car chase which ends in a horrific wreck, but they flee the scene, concerned about being caught on camera and contemplating how to falsify time cards to cover up their involvement (18:08–20:27).
  • “We a look too crazy, do we? No, oh, not nice. They got cameras…We didn’t chase them.” — Sergeant Wayne Jenkins (19:30)

8. The Golden Boys Unmasked

• The episode reveals the duplicity of the Task Force's leader, Sergeant Wayne Jenkins, a celebrated cop with a decorated history (20:40).
• The realization dawns for Agent Jensen: most, if not all, of the task force is deeply compromised, expanding the scope of the investigation (21:56–22:28).
  • “We were no longer looking at…a couple guys that are basically associates of a drug…conspiracy. We have a whole other set of conduct that’s going on.” — FBI Special Agent Erica Jensen (22:12)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• “There’s no way a police officer is going to pay for his own tracker. That really wasn’t adding up.”
  — Detective David McDougall (01:06)

• “What if the police officer put the tracker on Anderson’s car to track his movements to conduct the home invasion?”
  — Detective David McDougall (01:27)

• “He would have known how to get in the building. He would have known what that door was like, he would have known what the apartment looked like… Just all of it.”
  — FBI Special Agent Erica Jensen (06:51)

• “This is a cop talking to a drug dealer. He knows he’s a cop. He knows he’s a drug dealer.”
  — Detective David McDougall (08:32)

• “The purpose of this phone call is, hey, help me out. I’m your drug dealer friend, and this is what’s going on. I need help.”
  — Detective David McDougall (12:52)

• “It was what we would call…the dirty call, the criminal call.”
  — FBI Special Agent Erica Jensen (13:07)

• “Just know, whenever you’re ready to talk, I’m right here, bro.”
  — Antonio Shropshire to Detective Gondo (14:17)

• “We a look too crazy, do we? No, oh, not nice. They got cameras…We didn’t chase them.”
  — Sergeant Wayne Jenkins (19:30)

• “To me, it was just the dereliction of duty, the way they hid, you know, and stood by, but yet didn’t assist. It just bothered me a lot. You know, I was angry about it.”
  — FBI Special Agent Erica Jensen (21:43)

• “We were no longer looking at…a couple guys that are basically associates of a drug…conspiracy. We have a whole other set of conduct that’s going on.”
  — FBI Special Agent Erica Jensen (22:12)

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Segment Timestamps

• 00:44–01:45: Discovery of a police-bought tracker, initial suspicions set
• 03:15–04:25: FBI Special Agent Jensen brought in
• 05:45–06:47: The key link—Rayam’s former address matches the target’s
• 07:16–07:25: Focus on Gondo as the second suspect
• 08:05–08:32: Initial wiretap reveals Gondo–drug dealer relationship
• 09:35–10:15: Panic as tracker is discovered
• 11:21–12:40: “Dirty call” between Gondo and Shropshire
• 13:07–13:29: FBI uses wiretap call for legal authorization
• 14:02–14:23: Human moment between Gondo and a dealer
• 15:10–16:04: Surveillance risks in investigating cops
• 16:08–17:35: Bugging Gondo’s car and finding heroin
• 18:08–20:27: Car chase, crash, and cover-up attempt by Task Force
• 21:26–22:28: Realization of the investigation’s broadened scope

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Conclusion

This episode exposes not just individual corruption but a pervasive culture among those sworn to uphold the law, raising urgent questions about institutional rot and the challenge of holding authorities accountable. By the end, federal investigators have uncovered not merely a few “bad apples,” but evidence that the Gun Trace Task Force—Baltimore PD’s supposed best—was systematically abusing power and betraying their oath. The story continues, promising even deeper revelations to come.

Transcript

[Narrator/Host]

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[Narrator/Reporter]

Previously on Bad Cops. For weeks, Detective David McDougall has been tailing Baltim drug dealer Aaron Anderson. He suspects that Anderson's been supplying a lot of the city's deadly heroin.

[Detective David McDougall]

I start doing lengthy surveillances and following him, trying to piece together his organization.

[Narrator/Reporter]

When McDougal finally moves in and arrests him, he finds a mysterious GPS tracker stuck to the bottom of Anderson's car.

[Detective David McDougall]

I'm thinking somebody else was all my guy and didn't tell me.

[Narrator/Reporter]

McDougal discovers the device belongs to a Baltimore city cop, but it's not police issue. The cop bought it with his own credit card.

[Detective David McDougall]

There's no way a police officer is going to pay for his own tracker. That really wasn't adding up.

[Narrator/Reporter]

After his arrest. Anderson tells McDougal that just a few nights before, while he was out, two masked men kicked down his door and ransacked his apartment. McDougal starts to think the unthinkable at

[Detective David McDougall]

the time the home invasion happened. Anderson's far away from his apartment. That is a great time to try to steal his drugs and money because he's not there. What if the police officer put the tracker on Anderson's car, the track his movement to conduct the home invasion?

[Narrator/Reporter]

A cop robbing a drug dealer. And not just any cop. An officer from an elite plainclothes unit, one of the crown jewels of the Baltimore Police Department. I'm Jessica Lussenhaupt, and this is Bad Cops. From the BBC World, the true story of Baltimore's Gun Trace Task Force. Part two. The wiretap. It's 2007. The homicide rate in Baltimore is rising out of control. As part of a new strategy to fight back, the city's leaders create a specialized plainclothes unit, the Gun Trace Task Force.

[Narrator/Advertiser]

Their mission is to target gun dealers, trace guns used in crimes, and stem the flow of illegal weapons.

[Narrator/Reporter]

This is supposed to be a smarter era of policing in Baltimore. Plainclothes officers, like the Gun Trace Task Force, are investigators. They don't answer 911 calls. They're not confined to any one part of the city. They drive around in unmarked cars, wearing jeans and sneakers, trying to blend in with the neighborhood. On the streets, locals call these officers jump out boys because they pull up fast on street corners, throw open the doors and jump out on whoever runs. That's how they rack up the arrests. The top brass love means. Press conferences. With guns laid out on the table, the commissioner gets to stand behind the podium looking good. The gun Trace Task force are the Baltimore Police Department's golden boys. But Detective David McDougal suspects that one of these golden boys is involved in the robbery at the home of drug dealer Aaron Anderson. It's a hunch. He has to keep a secret, because if he's right, the implications are massive. And anyway, McDougal's a drug detective. It's not his job to investigate other cops. So he takes his information to the people who do. The Federal Bureau of Investigation. The case is assigned to FBI Special Agent Erica Jensen.

[FBI Special Agent Erica Jensen]

Yeah, no, he and I already talked about that. We're gonna do it this way just to assure the audio quality.

[Narrator/Reporter]

Erica Jensen's worked some tough cases, running down Colombian and Mexican drug cartels, tracking street gangs in Baltimore. And at this point, she's part of the FBI's Public Corruption Squad, going after dirty cops and politicians. Investigating police is tricky work. In the past, cases were blown when word of the investigation leaked out.

[FBI Special Agent Erica Jensen]

Police officers know tactics. They know how law enforcement works. So we knew that we had to be super careful, and it did drive a lot of the techniques we used and techniques we didn't use.

[Narrator/Reporter]

Agent Jensen knows she has to keep the case tightly under wraps. No one outside of her team can be allowed to know a thing, not even the Baltimore police commissioner. Detective McDougal briefs Agent Jensen about the mystery tracker he found under the car of drug dealer Aaron Anderson and how it was bought by a cop from this elite unit, the Gun Trace task force. While MacDougall continues his drug investigation, Agent Jensen starts looking into the task force officer. She's looking for any kind of link between him and Anderson.

[FBI Special Agent Erica Jensen]

It was very plausible to me that there was a police officer that might have been involved in protecting a drug crew. That was where we were in the very early stages.

[Narrator/Reporter]

But she finds no connection. The task force officer, the owner of the tracker, is clean. Still, Erica's gut tells her something's not quite right here. So she starts looking into the other officers in the same unit, and she pulls their files. One of them belongs to another detective in the squad, Jamel Raym. And as she's flipping through the pages of his file, she spots something.

[FBI Special Agent Erica Jensen]

I shook my head like, I must be looking at, like, did I mix the files up? Like, this can't possibly be right.

[Narrator/Reporter]

But it was right on a list of Ram's previous addresses. She sees that he used to live on the same street as Aaron Anderson, the dealer whose apartment was broken into by the two masked men.

[FBI Special Agent Erica Jensen]

Not only was it the same street address, it was the same apartment building. The apartments were one away from each other.

[Narrator/Reporter]

Right away, she knows this can't be a coincidence.

[FBI Special Agent Erica Jensen]

He would have known how to get in the building. He would have known what that door was like. He would have known what the apartment looked like. Just all of it.

[Narrator/Reporter]

Now she's thinking maybe Detective Ram was one of the masked men at Anderson's apartment. And if Ram is involved in the home invasion, there's a good chance that his task force partner is, too. Because they're not just work buddies. They're really close. And this guy's name is Momodu Gondo.

[FBI Special Agent Erica Jensen]

That was the moment when I think I was like, yep, they were in there. These guys did this. They did this home invasion. They had to have.

[Narrator/Reporter]

Rumors have been floating around Gondo for years. He's from a pretty rough part of Northeast Baltimore, and he stayed close with a few of his old friends from the neighborhood. Some of them have grown up to be players in the city's drug game. And when FBI Special Agent Erica Jensen starts looking through Gondo's first phone records, she sees he's in regular contact with a pretty major heroin dealer. Antonio Shropshire. He's a rival of Aaron Anderson. Drug cop David McDougall has been investigating both of these guys, and he's been running a wiretap on Shropshire and other members of his crew.

[Detective Mamadou Gondo]

Whoa, whoa. What's up with you, bro? Ain't nothing, man. You got the text, though, yesterday, right? Yeah. Hell yeah. Hell, yeah. Stu love, yo, listen, yo, Stu Storm, yo. Oh, no, no, I ain't know it's like that, yo. No, yo. No, yo, I ain't know it was like that, yo.

[Narrator/Reporter]

Detective McDougal is pretty troubled by what he's hearing on some of these calls.

[Detective David McDougall]

This is a cop talking to a drug dealer. He knows he's a cop. He knows he's a drug dealer.

[Narrator/Reporter]

It all sounds awfully suspicious, but it doesn't really prove anything. McDougal needs way more to build his case. He needs to know where Shropshire is going and who else he's meeting with.

[Detective David McDougall]

So we made the decision to put a tracker on his car. Here comes the tracker again.

[Narrator/Reporter]

So with the tap on Shropshire's phone and now with a tracker on his car, McDougal waits. He's in what he calls the war room. It's where all the wiretap calls come in. It's kind of hectic. He's got a bunch of phone lines to monitor. Scribbled across a whiteboard are all the tracker numbers they're using. And so he's sitting there, and then he's got a text message.

[Detective David McDougall]

It's a GPS removal alert.

[Narrator/Reporter]

It's an alert that tells him one of his trackers is being tampered with. McDougal's not immediately alarmed. He uses a lot of trackers. He thinks it's probably an old one from a previous job. But seconds later,

[Detective David McDougall]

door tamper alert.

[Narrator/Reporter]

The same tracker is now being opened and examined.

[Detective David McDougall]

All right, now I'm a little concerned. I'm like, what tracker number is that? I pause for a second, and I scream at my partner. He found the tracker.

[Narrator/Reporter]

Antonio Shropshire has discovered McDougal's tracker under his car.

[Detective David McDougall]

We were in complete nuclear meltdown mode at that point, looking at each other. Like, at this point, there's nothing we can do.

[Narrator/Reporter]

What MacDougall doesn't realize is that Shropshire has taken his car in for service. The mechanics in the garage put the vehicle up on a lift and looking underneath, Shropshire spots the device. Back in the war room, as MacDougall is scrambling to figure out what to do next, a number flashes across his screen. It's Shropshire's cell phone. He's making a call. McDougal listens in.

[Detective Mamadou Gondo]

Hello? Hola, papi. Hello. Hola. What's up, brother?

[Narrator/Reporter]

Shropshire is calling his friend Mamadou Gondo, the task force detective, and he's got an important question for him.

[Detective Mamadou Gondo]

I'm listening. I sent the car. I sent the car to the shop, okay? And the thing was with it, okay?

[Narrator/Reporter]

Shropshire is telling Gondo he's taken the car to the shop and the car was lit. He means the tracker he's just found underneath it. He wants Detective Gondo's advice, and his friend is happy to oblige.

[Detective Mamadou Gondo]

Yeah, basically, when something like that happened, you know, it's basically, you know what I mean, on the other side, you know, it's just a loss, you feel me? But definitely somebody's been tracking it.

[Narrator/Reporter]

Somebody's been tracking you, Detective Gondo tells his friend. Someone from the other side, the police, his own side. Then Gondo seems to check himself. It's like he realizes he said too much.

[Detective Mamadou Gondo]

You know, I ain't talking to you, so whatever you do, you do.

[Narrator/Reporter]

I don't even know who I'm talking to. It's an odd moment. Is Gondo thinking someone might be listening in?

[Detective Mamadou Gondo]

Just be mindful. Yeah. Just be mindful of that, brother. So whatever you do. But, yeah, you definitely gonna get rid of it. All right.

[Narrator/Reporter]

The call ends with Gondo telling Shropshire to ditch the tracker in the war room. Detective McDougal is sitting there, floored by what he's just heard.

[Detective David McDougall]

The purpose of this phone call is, hey, help me out. I'm your drug dealer friend, and this is what's going on. I need help here.

[Narrator/Reporter]

McDougal shares the call with Special Agent Erica Jensen, his contact at the FBI. It's exactly what she's been waiting for.

[FBI Special Agent Erica Jensen]

It was what we would call, like, the dirty call, the criminal call.

[Narrator/Reporter]

She's hoping she can now convince a judge to green light a wiretap on Detective Gondo's cell phone.

[FBI Special Agent Erica Jensen]

You don't just write a wiretap on someone's phone because they're a criminal. You have to show that they're using their phone in furtherance of the crimes. And this was the call that got us that.

[Detective Mamadou Gondo]

Yeah. Could I just get the spicy chicken meal with no tomato, no. No lettuce or cheese. I mean, no lettuce. I mean,

[Narrator/Reporter]

Now Agent Jensen's catching all kinds of snippets of conversation from Gondo's phone. Most of it has nothing to do with illegal activity, but it opens a window onto just how close close some of these guys really are. At one point, Gondo even confides in a member of Shropshire's crew about his ailing mother.

[Detective Mamadou Gondo]

They talk about my mother gonna have to have hospice care, man. Yeah. You know what I mean? She ain't gonna be there too much longer, man. Yeah, the hospice, you know, the hospital that's just gonna run its course, right? Just know, whenever you're ready to talk, I'm right here, bro. Right, right, right, right. I got you, yo.

[Narrator/Reporter]

The call ends with the dealer telling the cop that he's there for him. It's a very human moment. But even more suspicious than his calls with drug dealers are Gondo's calls with his own task force partner, Detective Jamel Raym.

[Detective Mamadou Gondo]

I can't do this no more, y'. All. It's either we get it or we don't, or we come close to something, but, hey, and you get away with a lot, you know?

[Narrator/Reporter]

That's Rayam. He's the cop. Agent Jensen suspects robbed the home of Shropshire's rival dealer, Aaron Anderson.

[Detective Mamadou Gondo]

I mean, like, damn near. 42, 4300, yo.

[Narrator/Reporter]

She feels sure that Rayam and Gondo are up to something.

[Detective Mamadou Gondo]

Stupid. Stupid, yo.

[Narrator/Reporter]

Stupid, but what exactly? It's impossible.

[Detective Mamadou Gondo]

To know 3200.

[FBI Special Agent Erica Jensen]

You hear conversations over a wiretap, but that's not everything. So you only see a little piece of it, Sometimes just a tiny portion of it.

[Detective Mamadou Gondo]

Not talking. That's what you got. Paid cash.

[FBI Special Agent Erica Jensen]

You don't see everything. And you're not hearing the whole story about the dynamics. You're not hearing about conversations occurring when they're not talking on the phone.

[Detective Mamadou Gondo]

Oh, my God.

[Narrator/Reporter]

So what are her options? Well, one of them is surveillance.

[Detective Mamadou Gondo]

Eight or nine thousand, but that's super risky.

[Narrator/Reporter]

Gondo's a detective. He knows how to spot a tail.

[Detective Mamadou Gondo]

I mean, yo, he got method to his madness.

[FBI Special Agent Erica Jensen]

This was the kind of case where we did not do a lot of surveillance for very good reasons. We did a very small amount of surveillance, but we were very careful to not get burned, to get seen and identified by a subject. It does happen because certainly they would understand what that meant. And either they would change their behavior, their tactics, or they would stop the behavior altogether.

[Detective Mamadou Gondo]

8,000, $9,000. You know, imagine bringing out that.

[Narrator/Reporter]

There is something else. She could try bugging Gondo's vehicle with a listening device. But that's going to take some real planning. Gondo spends a lot of time in that car. Agent Jensen decides bugging the car is her best option. And the opportunity comes when Gando leaves town on a trip. Jensen and her team have just a few hours to execute the plan. An FBI unit races over to Gondo's house. They disable the car alarm, but they need more time. It's a complex operation which could easily attract unwanted attention. So they swap the car out with an identical decoy vehicle. And then they spirit Gondo's car off to another location. There, the FBI technicians start installing the bug. And it's no easy job. Gondo's trained in surveillance. He knows how to spot a listening device. So the agents have to hide it someplace in his car where he'll never find it. While the agents are doing that, under the front seat of Gondo's car, they find something else. It's a bag of heroin. It's a crazy discovery, but Erica Monica knows she's onto something much bigger. So she tells her people, put the heroin back. Finally, they're done. Gondo's car is now bugged and back just where he left it. Parked outside his house. The agents slip away unnoticed. The next night, Gondo's out driving in his car. Riding up next to him is his wingman, Jamel Ram. Agent Jensen is in the FBI war room, listening in. Almost all of the gun trace task force are out on this night. They're riding in separate vehicles and the bug, hidden in Gondo's car, picks up the radio calls between them. They spot a driver at a gas station. Something about him attracts their attention and the driver notices them too. He hits the gas and takes off. The cops scramble to follow. No lights. No lights. That's Ram. He's saying not to turn on the red and blue flash. Flashing lights. All Agent Jensen can hear are the sounds of engines revving and broken bits of voices.

[Sergeant Wayne Jenkins]

I don't know. I don't know.

[Narrator/Reporter]

You can't really make it out on this recording, but there's just been a huge wreck. The car they were chasing blows through a red light and plows into another car. Both vehicles are totaled and the drivers are badly injured.

[Sergeant Wayne Jenkins]

Go around. Go like, go around. You may have to help out.

[Narrator/Reporter]

But Gondo, Ram and the rest of the unit don't stop. They speed through the streets of Baltimore, driving a few more blocks before finally they pull over.

[Sergeant Wayne Jenkins]

I don't know. Yo.

[Narrator/Reporter]

Behind them is carnage. But they seem more concerned that they might have been caught on camera.

[Sergeant Wayne Jenkins]

We a look too crazy, do we? No. Oh, not nice. They got cameras. We'll record it. No, no. We didn't chase them.

[Narrator/Reporter]

They reassure each other that no one saw them. Another of the unit's detectives, Daniel Hersel, is even joking about it.

[Sergeant Wayne Jenkins]

Hey, I was in the car just driving home.

[Narrator/Reporter]

I was just driving

[Sergeant Wayne Jenkins]

dark so it rained all the way through like 4:30, 5 o'. Clock. We could go and stop the flip at 10:30.

[Narrator/Reporter]

We could go and stop the slips at 10:30. That's Daniel Hersel again. He's now suggesting they should falsify their time cards, make it look like they weren't even working when the accident happened.

[Sergeant Wayne Jenkins]

That's the thing with Wayne. We see him with a little too much, you know, these car chases. Something happens. The fractures, you know? Right.

[Narrator/Reporter]

That's the thing with Wayne, these car chases. This is what happens. They're talking about Sergeant Wayne Jenkins, the leader of the Gun Trace task force. He's known for making big arrests and going beyond the call of duty. Just the year before, he even got a bronze star for bravery.

[Sergeant Wayne Jenkins]

Hey, I wonder what was in that car. I know, but I'm curious.

[Narrator/Reporter]

Go back to hq. That last voice is Jenkins. He's ordering his men back to headquarters. In the FBI war room, Special Agent Erica Jensen has been listening to all of this drama unfold.

[FBI Special Agent Erica Jensen]

At the time, we were, you know, what just happened?

[Narrator/Reporter]

She's just heard a group of police officers who swore an oath to serve and protect fleeing the scene of a serious accident that they caused, all on the orders of their boss, Jenkins.

[FBI Special Agent Erica Jensen]

To me, it was just the dereliction of duty, the way they hid, you know, and stood by, but yet didn't assist. It just bothered me a lot. You know, I was angry about it.

[Narrator/Reporter]

The case is now blown wide open. Agent Jensen realizes it's way bigger than she imagined. She thought the task force might have a couple of dirty cops. Now she believes most of the unit is rotten.

[FBI Special Agent Erica Jensen]

We were no longer looking at all right, we might have a couple guys that are basically associates of a drug organization or a drug conspiracy. We have a whole other set of conduct that's going on. So that was really the beginning of the shift, I think, in the investigation.

[Narrator/Reporter]

And right at the heart of it all is the Baltimore Police department's golden boy from the gun trace task force force, Sergeant Wayne Jenkins. So what else have Jenkins and his crew been trying to cover up? And just how dirty are these cops? That's next time. You've been listening to bad cops from the BBC World Service with with me, Jessica Lessenhop. The program was mixed by Neil Churchill, additional mixing by James Beard. The producer is Ben Crichton, and the editor is Richard Varden.

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