*"SIT THE FUCK DOWN, NI++A!! The chair ain't recognized yo' ass!!"* *"I'm standin' here holdin' a tore-up church crown from a bona-fide colored lady!! Y'all know what a colored lady is? Not y'all moms fo' SHO'! 'Cuz if they was that, then y'all woulda known better than that BOOOOOOLLSHIT!!"* *"That woman thinks I work in a cafeteria!"* *"A cafeteria...?"* *"At th' airport, yeah..."* *"Why the airport?"* *"'Cuz I know she ain't go down there to go DOWN THERE!"* ** *"Yo, Kimmi! That shit ain't funny! That woman RAISED me! And since I been grown, once a month I been with her on a church Sunday, tellin' myself I got nothin' to worry about 'cuz there ain't NOBODY in this city so low-down that they gonna disrespect A SUNDAY MORNING!!!"* *"My God, on a Sunday mornin'...I mean NO SHAME THEM NI++AS, FEEL ME?!?!"* You'd be hard-pressed to find a cop show-- or **ANY** show, really-- with scripting and dialogue as consistently tight, compelling, sharp, and often humorous as that found on every season of "The Wire." It's just priceless.
Valchek seemed impressed by Colvin talking back to Rawls. "How do you make a body disappear?" you could hear a pin drop initially then someone laughs nervously.
"I don't care how you do it, just do it" This line of logic automatically makes the speaker morally wrong, and any action to meet those standards is justified completely.
My favorite Colvin line was when after Hamsterdam had came out and Colvin was getting busted down at the Comstat meeting and Rawls was trying to dig in and humiliate him and Colvin was like "get on with motherfucker" Colvin was my favorite character
It was also what Stringer said right before he was killed. And those two met at the cemetery for Stringer to give up Avon’s address with all the weapons. Stringer said to Bunny, “Looks like you and I are both tryin to make sense of this game.” They’re similar people despite being on opposite ends of the spectrum. So they both said “Get on with it motherfukker” when the consequences of their actions came back to bite them.
The budget is also the sad truth, when Mayor Carcetti got to office all he was doing was juggling the budget trying to decide which sector has to go without money this year. I still feel that less crowded and safer prisons especially for newcomers will stop kids coming in as petty criminals leaving as psychopaths. You are forced to join a gang and commit murders in prison just to survive.
Even an ex con turn motivational speaker says if he goes to jail right now and is given a choice he would join the gangs again cause in that environment you can become a victim. Ever seen men that have been raped in jail interviews they are a shell of themselves that's those who ain't hitting the bottle or drugs. The worse kinds are the ones that take it on others that's why in my country the rape cases went up in a few years criminals normalised rape to the point as revenge a boy who got raped in jail turned on his grandfather for calling the police in the first place. I don't know what it is but prison system is broken for normal folk
0:47 to 1:30 is significant. This show isnt a cop show it's a community show. There isnt a profession out there that isnt implicitly threatened when an individual shows a capacity to be "good police" like in this case, but morally and ethically ambiguous in other situations as well. It takes some serious guts to go against the company grain to remain legitimate with your personal integrity. The lack of legitimacy ruins trust and when you live in Baltimore with a badge, having the command break that trust with the citizens by using inflated stats for public record could result in patrol officers and everyday folks being in grave danger. The high table doesnt see that part in their boardrooms and "legislative receptions" just happy mayors and governors. I thought their job was to fulfill the will of the people not to create a rift between the public and the authority that governs them.
Also, budget. Police, schools, hospitals etc. all need money, and each place is more run down than the next. They don't have the money to hire more men, and even if they did, quantity does not equal quality. What they need to do is improve the efficiency of the men they do have, and actually do some good police work. But we all know that's never gonna happen.
(Cont'd.) “De-Policing in America’s Cities: Erasing the ‘Thin Blue Line’” (Seattle, Cincinnati, LA, Philly, Miami, DC, New York) “Re-Victimization and ‘Disappearing’ Scandals: Dallas PD Revolutionizes Crime-Fighting Through Wholesale Stashing, ‘Unfounding,’ & Ignoring Complaints” Nicholas Stix
@linearrecords12 Actually, it is not. Effective policing depends on many factors and is focused on serveral goals, not just the goal of reducing numbers. The whole point of this scene is that performance standards of leadership can lead to perverse effects among police on the street: police men trying to put crimes under the radar of measurement by the management, without really (being able) to fight crime or reduce numbers. This tension can be seen throughout the series
The idea is that Rawls used to be a loose cannon type like McNulty when he was a young Detective, until he realized he'd never get anywhere being like that so he used his intelligence to become a Stats Guy.
In some states the prisons are so over crowded that prisoners are sleeping in bunk beds. They should fix up the prison system so that prisoners don't have to join a gang for protection. I am aware that prison is just a way to make money from crime through prison labor. And on the other hand people hypocritically complain that prisoners are wasting tax dollars. It is sad that the more freedom a country has the more uncontrollable crime becomes.
+jdessell Every Big City PD briefing. You can thank the NYPD for the curse that is Comstat. Freaking numbers game to the max. No way crime statistics are accurate with shit like this. Too many rapes? No problem! Knock it down to simple battery knowing full well the victim is already too afraid to testify. Too many aggravated assaults? Turn that frown upside down! Turn it into misdemeanor battery.
+Juan Aguilera Blaming is beyond the point by now, its just gotta get fixed. God help me if I say this but maybe the people need to learn to live with clean stats but some Deputy Chief wants to become Commissioner so he "adjusts" some stats a little and then it gets out of hand, its practically human nature.
Also, it is unrealistic to expect a small police force to take care of such a big crime problem. I don't want a police state, but more better managed and larger police forces with more resources.
why not double the police force and put more police in trouble areas? The lack of policing and poverty is how this problem started the first place. But they won't do that for the same reason they won't build many more prisons it makes it look like crime is increasing. So prisons get crowded unmanaged well ; eading to criminals becoming more sociopathic and violent just so you can keep the image that crime is going down.
I’ve been telling this story since 1996, in an article on the NYPD called “Crime Stories” for Chronicles magazine. I have to find the ms., and post it online. However, a good deal of my stuff is online. Google under, “‘Disappearing’ Urban Crime” (New York, New Orleans, Philadelphia, Atlanta) "Solving Philly Crime with an Eraser: The 'Good Irishman' and the Race Man Nicholas Stix
your still missing the point, it doesnt matter how many inmates are in a correctional facility. in fact this is an really easy problem to fix. You can either: a build more prisons, b add on the exsisting facilities, c reduce sentences, b change codified law and make them more relivent, e. shift priorities from criminal punishment to crime prevention. and so on. also you really dont know what your talking about in the rest the post. prisoners are not on the tax payers dime. then earn there keep.
