It’s been three years since Baltimore erupted in a series of protests over police violence, exposing deep divisions between the city’s police department and the community.
The protests captured national attention – prompting a federal investigation – and several high-profile efforts at reform.
Now a new scandal is threatening to undermine those efforts, raising questions about the depth of police corruption in Baltimore, and the institutional forces that allow corrupt officers to remain on the street.
Fault Lines returns to Baltimore as new details emerge about an elite plain-clothes police unit that, for years, doubled as a criminal gang – robbing residents, planting evidence, and sending countless innocent people to jail.
The unit operated with impunity in part because of the way police complaints are investigated.
In Baltimore – like many other cities – if a police officer is accused of wrongdoing, the complaint is investigated behind closed doors by the police department’s own Internal Affairs Division.
Fault Lines investigates how this latest police scandal once again places Baltimore at the centre of a national debate over how and whether police departments can be held accountable to the communities they police.
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It takes to long for the feds to srep in
Wish i could investigate myself and get away with crimes
So you fired cops they just go to another city and do the same thing again
From the MOUTH OF BABIES: " I DON'T THINK THEY WERE COPS. THEY WERE IMPOSTERS". YES THEY WERE.
The Wire showed all those things ten years ago.
They're still hurting the public
They are committing Maryland Insurance Fraud
Honestly you can almost read the depression and despair in her eyes.
Im glad i got fired from the academy for coming in late because i was helping an old black man on the side of the road all night..he saved my life
Just like the CRASH LAPD RAMPART SCANDAL
to much crockid cops in the streets of america
Football players got attacked just for taking a knee.
Baltimore and Baltimore County police still ain't right. How does a disabled person get a protective order if they can't go to the courthouse? Police will tell you that you have to go to the courthouse.
That's what an officer told me.
If the person is bedridden, no car, no people that can give them a ride they basically tell you you can't do anything. You have to go to the court house.
If you look online you can find the forms to print out and mail.
They either don't know the laws that they're supposed to uphold. Or they're straight up lying.
The woman and mother shot in front of the court house in Kentucky while trying to get a protective order…
The laws need to be updated with peoples ability to print things at home and video call hearings.
It's supposed to be a government by the people and for the people.
Why is the klu klux klan still in existence.
Are they planning to bring back slavery? That's the only reason it existed…
The klu klux klan is a maryland thing. Border state.
That little boy is so innocent. 😢
Police are supposed to protect.
Based on what I was able to pull up these corrupt officers were able to hold on to their pensions. Still getting paid by the taxpayer.
Is the no movie about them ? I swear I’ve seen something similar
Wow, happens in every city. Maybe not to this degree but it happens
The System's Rotten to the core. The Wire, Chuck D of Public Enemy and KRS One were all right.
The only good thing about Baltimore is there NFL team.
The only good thing about Baltimore is their NFL team.
If want go become a criminal just become a cop first. Then you could do whatever you want with almost no chance of ever being held accountable.
If you have 1 bad cop and 100 good cops. But the good cops don’t turn in the bad cop, then you have 101 bad cops.
The type of people that go to become cops are usually the worst types to be cops. Egomaniacs who want power. That’s why to get the FBI you have to take personality tests that weed out those kind of personality traits. police departments are too lazy to do that.
The Public should and must be able to hold the cops accountable who rule over them! There is no balance, no fairness, no transparency. Nothing!
The communists and Americas enemies like Al Jazeera LOVE using these stories to stoke division and hatred within America.
Some of our corrupt police are running a major theft ring and this includes ID theft. I was 58 yrs old and had no criminal history yet deputies trespassed my home to assault me and steal documents. Twice! I could barely run errands for fear of accidents by law enforcement. I have had deputies chase me down the highway at a high speed. They didn't have their lights on and I couldn't get over to the next lane because they had an 18-wheeler blocking me intentionally. Fortunately, a car in the opposite lane saw the deputy's erratic driving and he backed off my bumper. They are only following orders from the chief, sheriff, DA, GS judge, and the racketeering lawyers. This is the head of the snake. Unlike others, I can't get a lawyer anywhere in Tennessee. The bar is involved. No lawyers in Tennessee are clean enough to take my case. These police crimes go way up the ladder of corrupt officials. Those of us that have been hospitalized due to police trespassing into our homes and beating us unconscious believe the hospitals are very much involved in the cover up of the beating of ER police victims.
Who's the journalist?….
It wasn't just the feds
They robbed dope dealers. Big deal. Whatever. Acting like victims
Yall keep saying training day but that movie based on LAPD officer
The cast of “we own this city” nailed their roles 👏
Baltimore has always been corrupt, the same as LAPD
Now it’s 2025 and not a single thing has changed. Not just Baltimore , it’s a nation wide issue. Everyday there is new videos of police brutality , and they get away with it. It’s a disgrace.
Every law enforcement agent should undergo a thorough psychiatric examination every 6 months or so. It’s quite clear that most of these people have “internal issues” which affect their behaviour/response
Man you should sue the police and the city and that dirty as s cop