Police of The Wire

I look through the metal bars that encompassed my sol window in the tiny cell I shared with a bear of a man. The man's name was Manuel. He was only serving time for a couple years. I, was stuck here for life. I'll admit what I did was wrong, but the kid had no respect. It all happened one early morning while I had been ordering the workers to pull something when a young boy stopped working to as he said "take a breather". I had strict rules that you can't take any breaks, so I told him to get back to work or else. He didn't get back to work so I may have hit him a couple times. The kid had suddenly fallen to the ground unconscious. I kicked him a couple times but I was stopped by his father. Later when the police arrived to arrest…

Realism, family having your back, and dysfunctional systems are connections I made from Stickup Kid to The Wire. The Wire uses a realistic approach where they tell real stories that have happened. Also, The Wire has characters that are ordinary citizens from Baltimore. For example, in The Wire, they chose to film in Baltimore, and they use characters that represent the police and criminals of Baltimore. Thus, The Wire radiates realism because the show, characters, plot, and setting all represent…

episode we meet a young boy named Roberto Martinez, who two years ago had an operation for the installation of a pacemaker. Tragically Roberto dies and the police are called in for investigation. In the course of the investigation, police soon realize his death was not an accident, but a case of medical negligence. With the continuation of the investigation, police learn that the pacemaker was previously used and reported stolen by the Manhattan Medical. The investigation lead to the…

The Wire Scene Analysis The Wire is a crime drama television series set and produced in Baltimore, Maryland, created and written by author and former police reporter David Simon. The Series is centered on the Baltimore Police department and the Barksdale crew, a drug organization. The show has an overriding metaphor at play, something many characters refer to as the game. The scene that signifies this metaphor and has multiple comparisons to is the chess scene in episode 3, The Buys. In this…

rules and how the game is played. One of the obvious metaphors in this scene is the direct comparison between the pieces in the chess game and the players in the wire. The king is Avon and as D’Angelo says “The king stays the king”. No matter how much you do, no matter how many of the Kings enemies you kill or how much money you make for the organization you will never be king. The king does not do any work, he uses his pawns or soldiers and even the queen to do his dirty work. As you see in…

was evidenced by the use of the telescreens, the Thought Police, and the brainwashing scene at the end of the book. To begin, the telescreens were used to watch over the Inner and Outer Party, as well as some of the proles, to see if they are doing anything forbidden like writing their thoughts in a diary or making a face. A perfect example of this is in Chapter 1 page 2 where it is stated…

the upcoming episode. Another way in which Simon disorientates the viewer in the opening is by juxtaposing events that have nothing to do with one another. Potter points out that “the amount of recapping the show does is insufficient to bring the casual viewer up to speed” (195). The Wire is therefore not meant for the casual viewer, and Simon actively attempts to avoid them with vague openings and “lack of explicit storytelling “signposts” or elements of narrative redundancy” (Potter 192). A…

The Police Robot It was just a normal day until Lima found the codes to make his robot perform an unbelievable task. Moldy figured out how to make a robot do dangerous missions for police officers. After one month Lima’s robots were being sold to police stations all around the world. Moldy became famous all around the world for his invention. Six months later, the police robots were doing most of the police missions.The robots were successful every time they went on a mission. One day some…

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…

is not even mentioned in the film, which is the right decision, I think. "Man on Wire" is about the vanquishing of the towers by bravery and joy, not by terrorism. We meet Philippe Petit, a French wire-walker, magician, unicyclist and street performer, who tells us he was sitting in a dentist's office when…