Weekend Feature: The Tracker

In Baltimore, Maryland, an elite group of plainclothes police officers called the Gun Trace Task Force gets hundreds of illegal guns off the streets every year. Secretly, however, these detectives were also robbing people, selling drugs, planting evidence and framing innocent people. When some of the officers go too far, it triggers an FBI investigation that reveals the Gun Trace Task Force as one of the most corrupt police squads in American policing history. In this first episode, Jessica Lussenhop tells the story of the rise and fall of this once-powerful unit of officers, and revisits the case of Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old African American man, who died in the custody of the Baltimore Police Department, exposing a massive rift between the community and the cops