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Baltimore's "Monsters"

Published: Nov. 17, 2020, 6:02 p.m.

When crime surged in 2015 after the Freddie Gray protests, Baltimore police were more determined than ever to rack up more arrests and seize more illegal guns from the streets. The new book, "I Got A Monster," chronicles how that empowered cops on the ‘Gun Trace Task Force’--some of whom had been planting evidence, making illegal arrests and robbing drug dealers for years--to step up their own illicit activities. We speak to coauthor Brandon Soderberg. This interview originally aired on August 10, 2020. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.