Within the text Heroism, Institutions, and the Police Procedural, written by Alasdair McMillan (a television director and producer) in 2009, the readers are introduced to the idea of good versus evil. The concept envelopes The Wire, created by David Simon, as the base subject in this case. Where the argument, which is most important and consistent throughout the text, is that The Wire does not hold any character to a strict background of good nor evil. Whether the character’s assumed title would have been categorized as a good guy is irrelevant in the grand scheme. The show’s politics and high-powered institutions has the end resolve of the character’s actions: individuals driven by institutions. The insistence upon morals within any fictionalized
