In Baltimore, Brazen Officers Took Every Chance to Rob and Cheat
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#2So I guess "The Wire" was basically a documentary?
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#3So I guess "The Wire" was basically a documentary?
It was written by David Simon..so yeah
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Simon
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#4So I guess "The Wire" was basically a documentary?
The creator worked the city desk/homicide reporting for 12 years @ the Baltimore Sun.
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#5The fallout from the gun task force scandal has been substantial. Baltimore state’s attorney has dropped at least 125 criminal cases related to the task force and continues to investigate others. The public defender’s office estimates that the number of tainted cases is likely closer to 3,000.
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#6The fallout from the gun task force scandal has been substantial. Baltimore state’s attorney has dropped at least 125 criminal cases related to the task force and continues to investigate others. The public defender’s office estimates that the number of tainted cases is likely closer to 3,000.
really just incredible. how do you reform something so broken? a clean sweep? bring in the feds?
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#7So I guess "The Wire" was basically a documentary?
Yes it basically is based on true stories. I live in Baltimore, I should say just lived, because I just moved out. The city is every bit as corrupt, dangerous, and malicious as it's made out to be. Don't want anything further to do with this city. And the folks here were delirious thinking that Amazon was going to set up HQ2.
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#8So I guess "The Wire" was basically a documentary?
Based on true stories, and if it wasn't a British guy cast in a lead role you would find a lot of the actual local 'personalities' in the show.
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#9So I guess "The Wire" was basically a documentary?
The situation sounds much more like The Shield. The Wire was focused on institutional problems. It was more interested in the tragedy that incentives in the police force and city government were such that barely an iota of thought was ever given as to how to actually fix the problems of the city. Instead most work was expended in public relations efforts, cooking the books and ass covering. There was one storyline in season 1 where Herc and Carver thought about pocketing some drug money instead of turning it in as evidence, but they ended up giving it back didn't they?
The Shield on the other hand..
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#10The fallout from the gun task force scandal has been substantial. Baltimore state’s attorney has dropped at least 125 criminal cases related to the task force and continues to investigate others. The public defender’s office estimates that the number of tainted cases is likely closer to 3,000.
really just incredible. how do you reform something so broken? a clean sweep? bring in the feds?
They haven't been able to reform the Baltimore Police for decades. They need an external org under federal control with the task of weeding out, prosecuting and controlling the police.