This is the story of Leigh Maddox, a cop in Baltimore who believed passionately in the drug war – until she started to notice something strange…
This is Leigh describing how the police would profit from drug-busts:
This is Leigh recalling her friend’s disappearance:
This is Leigh recalling another moment from the disappearance:
And another:
This is Leigh recalling the moment she found out her friend was dead:
This is Leigh recalling being undercover with the Ku Klux Klan:
This is Leigh recalling the moment the KKK realized she was undercover:
This is Leigh explaining what happens when you arrest a drug-dealer – and why violence goes up:
This is Leigh describing being an adrenaline junkie:
This is Leigh recalling what her friend, Ed Toatley, told her before he was killed in a drugs bust gone wrong:
This is Leigh recalling a moment after he died, as she went to see his body:
This is Leigh recalling another moment:
This is Leigh talking about the ghosts who haunt both young African-Americans, and cops, whenever a car is pulled over:
This is Leigh talking about how poor kids grow up in warzones:
This is her talking about their trauma:
This is Leigh talking about the legal consequences for them:
This is Leigh talking about how, when she was a cop, nobody told her the effect her arrests where having:
This is Leigh talking about how her work now, trying to get criminal records legally expunged, doesn’t feel like redemption: