If he was rotting in Evidence Control for 12 years how was he so good with contemporary surveillance devices that he tricked the rest of the department by bugging the wrong phone?
If he was rotting in Evidence Control for 12 years how was he so good with contemporary surveillance devices that he tricked the rest of the departmen...
he's just smart ok? seriously, lester is cool
>Cool lester smooth
>mcnulty you silly cracka ass fool, us black folk don’t matter none to the damn media n shieet, we invisible homie, the system against us black folk homie shieeet
>hey bunk I have an idea to change that
>WTF YOU CRACKKKA ASS FOOL, YOU CRAZY AF homie FRFR WTF WRONG WITH YO PALE ASS homie
Why did they make Bunk randomly cuck himself?
meds
wasn't he cucking his wife there?
He was druk as shit
IIRC he felt so guilty he couldn't actually do it.
>yo MCNUTTY have ah eva told you bout my time as Secret Service Agent hunting Hackers and Crackas in New York?
mind=blown
I could've never guessed that Hackers is part of the Wireverse.
Being in evidence control enabled him to see new methods develop as evidence was checked in. Also gave him a lot of time to go over old cases and read about new ones. Then by season 5 he had been back in regular details for about 5 years so plenty of time to get fully caught up.
Telephones have not changed all that much over the years. You'd be surprised how antiquated most of it still is.
The tech is and was always incredibly simple regarding phones and wire taps. V basic stuff.
If the vicious cycle of poverty and crime is so inescapable how come Poot got out by just getting a job?
Poot was only like 21 at the end of the show. this lil homie probably went back to slinging after wagecucking for 6 months.
same friends, same neighborhood, same shit as before. you can only get out if you leave
Pleb tier take. Poot was happy to get out and knew better than to come back. He knew from experience that The Game(tm) is a scam for low level pawns.
>killed Wallace
>D gets locked up then dies
>Stringer killed
>sees Barksdale Crew fall first hand
>time in prison
>sees BFF Bodie get merked
What do you mean same friends? All his friends are dead and associates in jail.
Where would Poot even go back to? His gang's gone.
Shit just got old, son
how much do you think Foot Locker pays?
Minimum wage. Which is a lot when your rent is $0 abandoned projects buildings.
>job pays less so I HAVE to sell drugs and kill people!
The frick kind of bullshit is this. This kind of thinking is what makes the show so moronic. Simon himself acts like you just can't avoid these problems but ho boy don't you dare vote conservative, 'cause you know what THEY'LL do...
>conservatard unironically thinking his party would fix everything
lmao
Of all the people in the American legislature, there are maybe 3 or 4 worth listening to and they are on one side of the aisle. Granted, the rest are all tards.
Democrats haven't fixed anything either, so I guess you should both at least agree that the solution isn't to be found in either of your big parties.
Obviously the dems aren't fixing anything so try something new
frick man you people really are stupid. You just say dumb shit that sounds quippy like a 10 year old. Every retail/service employee in the world could make more money selling drugs but they don't
>Every retail/service employee in the world could make more money selling drugs but they don't
No, not every. They don't actually let just anybody join in.
Which has nothing to do with your original point about wages you just say something fricking moronic and then move on to the next moronic thing when I engage and dismantle the original moronic shit you were saying, fricking moron
>[incoherent babble]
That's right moron take your ball and go cry to mommy
I destroyed you intellectually. Your only response is a tantrum.
You haven't even bothered to participate because you know you have zero coherent points, so I accept your reluctant concession, moron.
Now post that without crying.
I already accepted your concession moron, you can stop humping my leg now
Most people dont want to do drugs let alone sell them. its a dangerous and illegal activity that forces you to constantly put yourself at risk, and it offers no sort of insurance, health care, or work history if you care about that. so YES, they could, moron. easily. People don't even want to do legal legit career paths that make more money because they hate labor and thinking
>People don't even want to do legal legit career paths that make more money because they hate labor and thinking
O SHIT DAT SOUND LIKE ME
>People don't even want to do legal legit career paths that make more money because they hate labor and thinking
the vast majority of people still do it instead of being kennard
He blames the institutions instead of the blatantly unfit people running them and just uses this amorphous specter of "the system" as a scapegoat because the only alternative is suggesting new management.
Maybe jobs should pay more than being a gangbanger?
You guys need to learn the difference between show logic and character logic and motivations.
I like The Wire and have watched the entire series twice through but I've realized that my worldview is fundamentally different than David Simon's and because if it I'll never be able to enjoy the show beyond a certain level.
In the world David created for The Wire, individuals are usually almost powerless, and all power resides with institutions and the handful of people who run those institutions. The poor black residents of Baltimore have no choice but to become drug dealers because institutions like the city police or local drug gangs don't give them any other options.
If you're like David and think that all power flows downward from institutions, the show is probably very compelling. If you disagree and think that people are more in control of their actions than the institutions they interact with, the show becomes a lot more frustrating.
Depends on where people live and what resources are available to them and the culture. The show is not some kind of universal truth. You're not above it just because you can't relate.
magical Black syndrome
Except he wasn't in Evidence control, he was in Pawn Shop unit.
>12 years
AND FOUR MONTHS
Two words. Real poh lees.
Are you a zoomer by any chance? This shit is basic, phones (wired) have been the same forever almost. His job is logging evidence, he is seeing the changes happen monthly
he's just really down and with it. he keeps up with the latest trends. how do you think he landed a hot gf 30 years his junior?
>rotting in evidence control
>rotting on the boat
I would fricking kill for a comfy desk job with lots of free time, never mind getting to drive a fricking boat around a kino harbour all day. These cops don't know what they got man
The show is set in a time where people had real jobs, not being a barrista or influencer. To them, it was rotting. They wanted real jobs that made a difference. Compared to today it was heaven.
>equates losing your job or pension to getting killed
do libtards really
it's a massive downgrade in status. homicide detectives (especially McNulty) get a huge ego kick out of investigating the most important crime there is.
You can't explain that to a neet. Their peak of fantasy and/or ambition is a """comfy office job""".
>contemporary surveillance devices
I don't believe they did anything on this show that real Baltimore cops/crooks weren't doing in the 80's
I mean, they even had them using pagers
GOT THAT PANDEMIC
PANNNNDEMIC
>Got that gain of function rhy chea
Would Hamsterdam actually work?
No. See San Francisco and Portland
those bums and addicts are always going to exist. would you rather them be confined to one area, or roaming throughout the city?
In America? It would work exactly as demonstrated in the show. America has barely legalised weed and already were seeing huge signs of moral and social decay.
If it was properly regulated I don’t see why not
Section off a part of the city, build giant walls around it, have armed guards there to make sure trouble doesn’t kick off, and make people understand that if you enter and something bad happens, it’s on you. Look at videos of Philadelphia, those streets are disgusting and I’m a brit but I can imagine it’s like that in most leftist cities. At this point why not at least attempt it in the worst cities and try to improve some part of it
I think it looks a little simpler in The Wire than IRL because:
1. It's a TV show.
2. It's only the western district, not the entire city.
Say you make a hamsterdam in an IRL city. You have to put a shitton of guards (most probably policemen) inside the hamsterdam, and another shitton to make sure the junkies and dealers actually stay inside. That means you have to patrol the whole city constantly. In The Wire it worked because everyone seemed to know each other and the police just had to kick their ass a couple times.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freetown_Christiania
nah but holocaust would work
it looked like hell for a bit but at the end there were social service groups getting involved, and it would've been interesting to see what it could've become if they hadn't shut it down in a panic
He wasn't, he was in the pawnshop unit for 13 years and 4 months. His trick with the phones basically amounted to plugging in some wires differently, lying on some paperwork and hoping that none of the bosses would check, and it came after 4 years of working wiretap cases.
>pawnshop unit
basically same shit
>13 years and 4 months
ok i'm sorry i don't have autistic photographic memory, sperg
Black magic
Because they're still using the same fricking equipment.
By unironically eatin' beans
also: Chek't
>durr I can't get off deez corners homie
>makes like 100 times more than all the homie's around him
>doesn't save up to buy a place away from the corners and start a new life.
Who are you talking about?