Incredible Birds Eye View Helps Lady Justice Accuracy

One morning in June, three plainclothes officers showed up to see McNutt.

 They were members of a special unit charged with investigating dirt bike crews—groups of primarily young men who recklessly drive illegal off-road motorcycles through the city.

In Baltimore the crews are infamous for aggressively disrupting traffic, ignoring stoplights, and occasionally injuring and killing bystanders.

Should a car accidentally collide with group members, other riders have been known to assault the driver before speeding away.

 City policy prevents police from chasing the bikers, because high-speed pursuits are deemed too risky.

The officers wanted to learn more about the surveillance system, and McNutt led them to a conference room to give them a demonstration.

 Using two large projection screens, he delivered the sales pitch he’d honed for trade shows.

 He called up old images from a murder in Juárez and walked the detectives through the tracking process that had led him to a cartel safe house.

The spiel lasted about 20 minutes.

When it was over, the sergeant in charge of the unit sat in silence for a moment, his arms crossed on his chest.

“I’m sorry,” he said. “But oh my God—this is just overwhelming right here.

This is amazing.”

One of the other officers slapped the tabletop. “Let’s go get some dirt bikes, Sarge!”

 Since January, police have been testing an aerial surveillance system adapted from the surge in Iraq.

And they neglected to tell the public.

 Pug, a wisecracking 13 year old living on a dangerous Westside block, has one goal in mind:

to join The Twelve O'Clock Boys; the notorious urban dirt-bike gang of Baltimore.

Converging from all parts of the inner city, they invade the streets and clash with police, who are forbidden to chase the bikes for fear of endangering the public.

 When Pug's older brother dies suddenly, he looks to the pack for mentorship, spurred by their dangerous lifestyle.

 Pug's story is coupled with unprecedented, action-packed coverage of the riders in their element.

The film presents the pivotal years of change in a boy's life growing up in one of the most dangerous and economically depressed cities in the US.