Baltimore Police Commissioner Frederick H. Bealefeld III believes that David Simon’s hit HBO show The Wire serves as a “smear that will take [the city] decades to overcome.”
David Simon responds, saying “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.”
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For those of you scoring at home, that’s Simon — 1, Bealefeld III — 0.
Exactly.
in the article, commissioner bealefeld says miami’s cop show is more positive because they have “detectives that look like models”. what does that have to do with anything? (also mcnulty, kima and the rest of them are hot.)
I think Simon’s actually got more like a basketball score against BPD at this point.
Bealefeld should go back to putting dope on the table, since that’s what he knows.
Yes! I loved that. Go David Simon. Maybe he could step in and write this week’s column, since he’s already on a tear.
Boomsticks, David Simon!!
@amy: Right? Also, they drive nice cars. Maybe his real problem is that the criminals on the Wire are too hot. (Hello, Stringer Bell and Omar’s sexy scar.)
Um, awesome.
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