本剧基于记者Justin Fenton的同名书籍创作，《火线》制片人David Simon和George Pelecanos共同打造。 　　故事记述了巴尔的摩警察局枪支追踪特别工作组的起起伏伏，以及一个美国城市所遭遇的腐败和道德沦丧，在这个城市里，禁毒和大规模逮捕的政策是以牺牲实际警 察工作为代价的。We Own the City is set in Baltimore 2015. Riots are erupting across the city as citizens demand justice for Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old Black man who has died under suspicious circumstances while in police custody. Drug and violent crime are surging, and the city is reaching its highest murder count in more than two decades: 342 homicides in a single year, in a city of just 600,000 people. Facing pressure from the mayor's office-as well as a federal investigation of the department over Gray's death-Baltimore police commanders turn to a rank-and-file hero, Sergeant Wayne Jenkins, and his elite plainclothes unit, the Gun Trace Task Force, to help get guns and drugs off the street. However, behind these new efforts, a criminal conspiracy of unprecedented scale was unfolding within the police department. Entrusted with fixing the city's drug and gun crisis, Jenkins chose to exploit it instead.