GoodGuyWithACat [he/him]

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  • Unfortunately the Wire isn’t full ACAB. David Simon still holds the belief that the war on drugs is what’s ruining policing, not that policing itself is wrong. This is consistent through the show, which bemoans the stat game and proposes that good things could happen if police could just do real police work.

    However, the Wire doesn’t hide any of the ugly bits and a critical viewer could come to the same conclusions you did. I don’t think it quite counts as copaganda because it paints the situation as unwinnable, but any show which features police protagonists will inevitably tow the line the same way you can’t really make an “anti-war movie” without glofiying it to some degree.