Coauthored with Baynard Woods, the 2020 book I Got A Monster: The Rise and Fall of America’s Most Corrupt Police Squad (St. Martin’s Press) was named by National Public Radio, Mother Jones, and CrimeReads as one of the best books of 2020.
“This book made me want to cry and scream at the same time.”-NPR
“In a year full of critical reflections on the role that police power plays in society, nothing informed my thinking quite as dramatically as this book, which uncovers in painstaking details the mind-blowing level of corruption in the Baltimore Police Department’s Gun Trace Task Force.”-Mother Jones
“I Got A Monster reads like Bad Lieutenant on steroids.”-CrimeReads
“True crime with humanity at its core”-Booklist
“A sobering and unflinching story of corruption, a city plagued by poor leadership, and a citizenry that has always deserved better....A reminder that corruption is the result of people making choices to benefit themselves at the expenses of the general public. It is an important and necessary read.” -DeRay Mckesson, author of On the Other Side of Freedom: The Case for Hope
“Although I Got A Monster is meticulously reported nonfiction, the writing is good enough to generate a train wreck fascination in watching Jenkins’s schemes start to spiral out of control. But amid a nationwide debate over policing reform, it’s more than just an outrageous crime story. Woods and Soderberg shows the bureaucratic and political incentives that allowed dirty cops to flourish.”-Reason
