The Wire was a series that aired on HBO between 2002 and 2008, all happening in the city of Baltimore, an independent city in the state of Maryland, whose creator is David Simon, who for years was a black column journalist for The Dom.
The series focuses on Baltimore’s slums, where drugs and crime coexist, and talks about everything around them: the social situation of many people in the neighborhood, police action, infighting between drug gangs, etc. it reviews all the actors operating in this world: from the small consumer to the main political spheres.
- You can hear several shots in the morning; Shrill screams that cut the air.
- Heads peeking out the window and then?Nothing.
- Just silence.
- Everyone in their routine and homework.
- The inhabitants of this Baltimore slum are already accustomed to the waves of violence that line the streets every day.
- The drug is installed in every corner; young people who start working for different distribution bands from an early age.
- Because their environment is the only opportunity they see.
Police work day by day against organized gangs, emphasizing the futility of their procedures and without the possibility of evolving and improving their resources and effectiveness, as they face a static hierarchical system; a system based especially on?chain of command? and whose only concern is to reach the limit of the statistics required from above, which logistically limits the various police operations, often leaving them ineffective and facing a bigger problem: the wow factor. .
“No one wins, is a side losing only slower?. Prezvalousky-
Crime is the feedback between the police and the criminal. Police cannot act if they do not create the means to commit crimes, and the criminal creates new ways to evade security forces when police restrict the circle around them.
Thus, the reality to be demonstrated is that it is practically impossible to anticipate the crime, it is the criminals themselves who believe it and the police must act accordingly.
On the other hand, we are facing political rivalries, the struggle for power justifies all means: bribes, embezzlement of public funds, etc. Instruments that feed the inertia of a vicious circle that sets the course for other situations.
The limits imposed? From above they are an obstacle to ending organized crime and drug trafficking, demonstrating that high political spheres are often complicit because they benefit, directly or indirectly, from the criminal world; however, the series reflects another phenomenon: politicians, while feeding on money from criminal gangs, prevent them from entering their circle, clearly marking their position.
“The king is still king. ” Re? Angelo-
Similarly, The Wire tries to focus its attention on drug suppliers, smugglers who move it from its departure to its final destination. The port of Baltimore is the main traffic point. The demands of trade unions on politicians are not heard, so in many cases it is not heard. they must resort to theft and illegal activities to obtain an incentive that motivates public authorities to listen to what they have to say.
“Business, always business”. -The Greek-
Education is another of the great institutions that encourage drug crime, standardizing courses and classes promotes absenteeism, treating young people as numbers that must compensate for the legal fees required for the school to continue functioning, so the only concern is that children attend classes on the first day for enrollment to be counted.
Similarly, the concern lies in the need to keep the courses stable and balanced, with students passing the year without having acquired the necessary skills, because having them repeated each year implies a disruption and an investment of money and time that the system does not want. Take.
The press, especially writing, presents itself as a means of conspiracy, newspapers must constantly feed on information to stay afloat, in this way they inflate their own news to arouse the interest of the company and thus continue to generate sales. in this way, the crime itself and the political orientation itself are manipulated by false means of information, whose only interest is to remain relevant.
“A lie is not a side of the story, is that just a lie?. – Terry Hanning-
talks about the influence of the system and its inability to evolve. You’re created not to quit. In the end, it all comes down to a circle of violence and power in which minors, given their social situation, have to adapt to a hostile world.
An ecosystem that they face with few resources and that pushes them directly into a world of violence and destruction, is the largest, before them, those who have become what they are, and will occupy that place in the future. He created them makes them succumb to the violence of his own activities.
“Just a gangster, I suppose. ” Avon Barksdale-