The Wire

[ice grillin you]

simons response:

"Publicly, let me state that The Wire owes no apologies—at least not for its depiction of those portions of Baltimore where we set our story, for its address of economic and political priorities and urban poverty, for its discussion of the drug war and the damage done from that misguided prohibition, or for its attention to the cover-your-ass institutional dynamic that leads, say, big-city police commissioners to perceive a fictional narrative, rather than actual, complex urban problems as a cause for righteous concern. As citizens using a fictional narrative as a means of arguing different priorities or policies, those who created and worked on The Wire have dissented.

Commissioner Bealefeld may not be comfortable with public dissent, or even a public critique of his agency. He may even believe that the recent decline in crime entitles him to denigrate as "stupid" or "slander" all prior dissent, as if the previous two decades of mismanagement in the Baltimore department had not happened and should not have been addressed by any act of storytelling, given that Baltimore is no longer among the most violent American cities, but merely a very violent one.

Others might reasonably argue, however that it is not sixty hours of The Wire that will require decades for our city to overcome, as the commissioner claims. A more lingering problem might be two decades of bad performance by a police agency more obsessed with statistics than substance, with appeasing political leadership rather than seriously addressing the roots of city violence, with shifting blame rather than taking responsibility. That is the police department we depicted in The Wire, give or take our depiction of some conscientious officers and supervisors. And that is an accurate depiction of the Baltimore department for much of the last twenty years, from the late 1980s, when cocaine hit and the drug corners blossomed, until recently, when Mr. O'Malley became governor and the pressure to clear those corners without regard to legality and to make crime disappear on paper finally gave way to some normalcy and, perhaps, some police work. Commissioner Bealefeld, who was present for much of that history, knows it as well as anyone associated with The Wire."

[Diomedes]

destilupfrontate

lol

[SD]

Simon embellishes the narrative but who cares, at the end of the day it's a fictional story loosely based off real people. My friend is a cop in South West Philly, he said the Wire is on point with a lot of its portrayals and opinions.

[SunMo]

i can't watch that video, says it's private

[MDS]

South West Philly,

talk about a shteinhole

bmore has nothing on that place

[Rome]

Simon's response was excellent.   The fact that someone points at a tv show and affixes blame to it is fairly awesome though.   Perfect example of just how farged up this society is right now.

[Sgt PSN]

The one thing I'll say that the police commish makes a valid point about is that the "glamor" cities like NY, LA and Miami are always put up on a pedastool in tv and in movies.  The cops are all model quality, drive fancy cars, live in the best parts of town, etc, etc.  Even the criminals aren't very scumbaggy and they always confess.....which is basically saying that even their criminals have some sort of integrity or something. 

Still, it is just television and no one should take any of it seriously.  But if you tell a lie enough times it becomes truth and I think that's kind what he's getting at. 

[MDS]

there are plenty of unfavorable depictions of ny and la, its just they got lost in fluffy sunny happy times of entourage, sex and the city, etc.

all bodymores got is the wire and that horrendous shes just not that into you movie

[ice grillin you]

its not that those cities are treated any differently it just that the shows that are based in those cities are horrible "safe" television programs...the wire is the only tv show ever made that depicted ANY city in a honest and realistic light...it just happened to be baltimore since the creator is from there

[ice grillin you]

rawls was michelle williams father in blue valentine

oh and check this greatness...

1:57 - 2:12


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJqFUWbITug

[SD]

[MDS]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9VspqcwtJQ

yes or no on clay davis making meta jokes about the wire

didnt land for me

rawls was michelle williams father in blue valentine

oh and check this greatness...

1:57 - 2:12


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJqFUWbITug

play ga rism

[ice grillin you]

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/baltimore-city/bs-md-ci-drug-raids-20110310,0,5092225.story

More than 30 people, including the actress known as "Snoop" from the Baltimore-based HBO series "The Wire," were arrested Thursday morning across the city and its surrounding counties in connection with a large-scale heroin and marijuana operation.

also i was watching goodfellas this weekend and clay davis is in it

[SD]

I mentioned that about Clay Davis a few pages back. It's pretty funny seeing him as a Doctor.

[ice grillin you]

classic perp walk