We Own This City

• Jon Bernthal as Sgt. Wayne Jenkins,[lower-alpha 1] the central figure in the Baltimore Police Department's (BPD) Gun Trace Task Force (GTTF)
• Wunmi Mosaku as Nicole Steele, an attorney assigned to the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice
• Jamie Hector as Sean M. Suiter, a BPD homicide detective caught up in the GTTF case
• Josh Charles as Daniel Hersl,[lower-alpha 1] a BPD officer involved in the GTTF
• McKinley Belcher III as Momodu "G Money" Gondo,[lower-alpha 1] a BPD veteran and member of the GTTF
• Darrell Britt-Gibson as Jemell Rayam,[lower-alpha 1] a BPD officer involved in the GTTF
• Rob Brown as Maurice Ward,[lower-alpha 1] a plainclothes officer involved in the GTTF
• David Corenswet as David McDougall, a veteran investigator with the Harford County Narcotics Task Force
• Dagmara Domińczyk as Erika Jensen, an FBI agent who investigated the GTTF
• Don Harvey as John Sieracki, a BPD officer assigned to the public corruption task force who aided the FBI
• Larry Mitchell as Scott Kilpatrick, a veteran investigator with the Baltimore County Police Narcotics Unit

• Ian Duff as Ahmed Jackson, a former Department of Justice trial attorney who is now working for the Office of Civil Rights
• Delaney Williams as Kevin Davis, the BPD police commissioner
• Lucas Van Engen as Leo Wise, the lead federal prosecutor assigned to the GTTF case
• Treat Williams as Brian Grabler, a retired Baltimore detective now teaching at the police academy
• Gabrielle Carteris as Andrea Smith, the head of the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force
• Tray Chaney as Gordon Hawk, a recent addition to the Harford County Narcotics Task Force
• Domenick Lombardozzi as Stephen Brady, the president of the Baltimore City Fraternal Order of Police
• Thaddeus Street as James Otis, a Baltimore resident and HVAC repairman
• Jermaine Crawford as Jaquan Dixon, a young BPD patrolman
• Nathan E. Corbett as Tariq Touré, a West Baltimore author and community activist
• Chris Clanton as Brian Hairston, a BPD officer
• Christopher R. Anderson as Dean Palmere, Deputy Commissioner of the Baltimore Police Department

In May 2021, it was confirmed that Reinaldo Marcus Green would direct the series.[6] Production was reported to begin in July 2021 with filming occurring in Baltimore.[7] Production was temporarily halted for a week in September 2021 due to a "COVID-19 event".[8]

In May 2021, Jon Bernthal, Josh Charles, Jamie Hector were announced to have been cast in leading roles.[6] Darrell Britt-Gibson, Rob Brown, McKinley Belcher III, Larry Mitchell and Wunmi Mosaku were cast in June.[7][9] In August, several castings were announced, including Dagmara Domińczyk, Don Harvey, Delaney Williams, David Corenswet, Ian Duff, Lucas Van Engen, Gabrielle Carteris, Treat Williams and Domenick Lombardozzi.[10] In September, several recurring and guest roles were announced, including Thaddeus Street, Tray Chaney, Chris Clanton, Jermaine Crawford and Nathan E. Corbett.[11]

The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported a 94% approval rating with an average rating of 8.4/10, based on 35 critic reviews. The website's critics consensus reads, "A spiritual successor to The Wire with an even more pessimistic outlook on law enforcement, We Own This City deftly explores compromised individuals to paint an overall picture of systemic corruption."[12] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned a score of 84 out of 100 based on 21 critics, indicating "universal acclaim".[13]