04-18-2012, 05:19 PM
The only realistic idea that the Wire was able to protray is crooks are basically idiots. It is true that in general many crooks do rely on things like television to give them idea's on how they should commit a crime. Since TV isn't real this usually ends up in stupid decisions. Typically this is a police opinion, they are smarter then crooks and in my industry we deal with this very concept on a daily basis. Crooks get themselves caught more then law enforcement does the work to catch them.
Ironically the Wire contributes to that same problem.
Police departments in the area's I am intemently familiar with, Memphis, Los Angeles, Washington and Buffalo certainly don't work in any fashion like that Baltimore department does in the TV show. The Wire takes a very cynical and totally unrealistic view of political organizations up to and including the media.
Their protrayal of those organizations are not only not accurate but wholely exagerated.
If you are going to portray being a real department then you would see just how much a department does rely on independant contracters to solve many types of crimes. Budget cuts don't lead "Hamsterdan" experiments or officers framing each other. They lead to greater contracter involvement and streamlined processes.
I could be totally wrong and Baltimore is just totally fucked up beyond help. It is also possible that Baltimore doesn't know crap about good police work.
I don't know anything about Baltimore. I think it is more likely that the show is written for dramatic and gritty purposes taking advantage of the HBO format they were afforded.
Let me just say that the Wire doesn't represent any form of reality I have seen and it is offensive to many law enforcement individuals that I know personally.
The Wire's claim that they protrayed reality is as much of a slogan as Wheaties "It's the the breakfast of champions". I am sure you can find a champion somewhere that ate Wheaties at some time in his/her life.
Vllad
Ironically the Wire contributes to that same problem.
Police departments in the area's I am intemently familiar with, Memphis, Los Angeles, Washington and Buffalo certainly don't work in any fashion like that Baltimore department does in the TV show. The Wire takes a very cynical and totally unrealistic view of political organizations up to and including the media.
Their protrayal of those organizations are not only not accurate but wholely exagerated.
If you are going to portray being a real department then you would see just how much a department does rely on independant contracters to solve many types of crimes. Budget cuts don't lead "Hamsterdan" experiments or officers framing each other. They lead to greater contracter involvement and streamlined processes.
I could be totally wrong and Baltimore is just totally fucked up beyond help. It is also possible that Baltimore doesn't know crap about good police work.
I don't know anything about Baltimore. I think it is more likely that the show is written for dramatic and gritty purposes taking advantage of the HBO format they were afforded.
Let me just say that the Wire doesn't represent any form of reality I have seen and it is offensive to many law enforcement individuals that I know personally.
The Wire's claim that they protrayed reality is as much of a slogan as Wheaties "It's the the breakfast of champions". I am sure you can find a champion somewhere that ate Wheaties at some time in his/her life.
Vllad