In the months leading up to the U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division releasing its report on the Baltimore Police Department, I listened to testimony from women, transgender, lesbian, and gay people, former sex workers, and former addicts that informed the findings of that report. The testimonies described sexual and physical abuse at the hands of the Baltimore City Police and the report ultimately found rampant racial and gender bias in the police department's interactions with Baltimore's Black residents.

I reviewed and edited those testimonies and conducted an additional interview, which comprise this narrative radio documentary. No police officers are identified in this piece and the names of those who testified have been changed to protect them from any retaliation. A full transcript is available here (www.steinershow.org/podcasts/specia…y-and-policing/).

Produced in collaboration with Power Inside, a Baltimore-based human rights and harm reduction organization that serves women and girls who are survivors of gender-based violence and oppression.