Riding with Baltimore SWAT: Research for We Own the City
To play Wayne Jenkins in We Own the City, Bernthal rode out with Baltimore city and county SWAT teams every night for three straight months. He came in with David Simon's Wire credibility behind him — which turns out is literally required watching among Baltimore cops. What he discovered was that corrupt policing devastates not just communities and victims but also good cops, whose safety and careers are destroyed by it.
