![]() ![]() First introduced lecturing the department about the fact that genuine police success comes from doing things the right way-since dishing out beatings and alienating the public only thwarts cops’ main objectives-he’s a charismatic gung-ho cowboy, and Bernthal embodies him with such macho he-man charisma that it’s immediately apparent why he became a BPD star.Īs We Own This City quickly details, Jenkins’ popularity was also due to the fact that he enthusiastically robbed any criminal or civilian unfortunate enough to cross his path and doled out (lesser) shares of his spoils to his comrades. Jenkins was an individual tailor-made for this job, earning accolades, promotions (eventually to sergeant) and, most important of all, the trust and loyalty of his squad members, including Daniel Hersl ( Josh Charles), Momodu Gondo (McKinley Belcher III), Jemell Rayam (Darrell Britt-Gibson), and Maurice Ward (Rob Brown). It’s a lesson the latter both takes to heart and updates by proving that the real key to power is running a plain-clothes unit like the GTTF, whose mission was to take firearms and drugs off the street and to simultaneously round up those who were trading in them. “There is no dictatorship in America more solid than a beat cop on his post,” says a veteran officer to Wayne Jenkins ( Jon Bernthal) midway through Simon’s latest. ![]()
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