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re: How realistic is The Wire?
Posted on 8/30/22 at 5:24 pm to Abraham H Parnassis
Posted on 8/30/22 at 5:24 pm to Abraham H Parnassis
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Rank and file detectives would likely not have been involved in a Title 3 case. We always had a major crimes unit or joint task force for anything related to electronic intercepts. Occasionally uniform guys like me would get detailed for a week or two, but it was always slack surveillance. Also, we'd remain in uniform plenty of times to effect a car stop on this person or that person, but never for grabbing up the targets. That was always SWAT or SRT.
Season 1 and Season 2 it was a (somewhat crappy at first) task force/special detail with an assigned DA and FBI help, kinda, on the Title 3. Seasons 3-5 it was mostly the Major Crimes Unit running the Title 3. Yes, the crew were initially detailed rank and file detectives, by midway S2 most of the core group were becoming experts at electronic surveillance.
Also most of the time when they were going to arrest a major target they had SWAT or other special units/backup there. One of the best S1 scenes is when SWAT shuts down the block to arrest Avon, but instead they casually go in assuming Avon hasn't used a gun in years.
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Posted on 8/30/22 at 6:43 pm to wildtigercat93
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Yeah Snoop and a few others were legit Baltimore gangbangers at one point or another in their lives Snoop ended up going to prison for murder after the show
In an interview some of the cast said they even had real dope fiends wander into sets trying to cop real drugs.
Posted on 8/31/22 at 12:54 am to ksdolfan
I think it’s about as close as you can get to real, and not quite a documentary…. Lol but close.
Posted on 8/31/22 at 8:11 am to ksdolfan
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From the street corner gangs to the inner workings of police departments and even the inner city schools systems?
As far as the streets angle, it was realistic but that day of organization is pretty much done. I mean there are actual gangs but IRL one of his youngin's would have just popped Marlo and Avon, and Omar would have been taken out by some random kid or person quick. Think of modern day Nola or BR, its just young kids shooting each other all over the place and committing crimes on their own, no real purpose or leadership from older people.
This post was edited on 8/31/22 at 8:12 am
Posted on 8/31/22 at 8:54 am to wildtigercat93
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Obviously there’s some TV flair every once in a while (Mayor race, drug free zone, serial killer plot etc) that falls far outside of realistic but I don’t think it pulls away from the main goal and picture it’s painting
Actually the mayor race was very real as was the drug free zone. Series killer plot was more Simon being pissed at the Baltimore sun.
Posted on 8/31/22 at 8:57 am to Abraham H Parnassis
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How realistic is The Wire?
I worked for two large metro departments in different states.
Rank and file detectives would likely not have been involved in a Title 3 case. We always had a major crimes unit or joint task force for anything related to electronic intercepts. Occasionally uniform guys like me would get detailed for a week or two, but it was always slack surveillance. Also, we'd remain in uniform plenty of times to effect a car stop on this person or that person, but never for grabbing up the targets. That was always SWAT or SRT.
We did have a guy in uniform who was former BPD and he said the department's inefficiencies were spot on.
From what I have read....the bpd was so bad that it was pretty realistic of them putting together the unit that went after Barksdale. Essentially there wasn't a real major crimes unit in the 80s and 90s that went after big drug dealers. Really just focused only on homicide.
Posted on 8/31/22 at 9:02 am to BorrisMart
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As far as the streets angle, it was realistic but that day of organization is pretty much done. I mean there are actual gangs but IRL one of his youngin's would have just popped Marlo and Avon, and Omar would have been taken out by some random kid or person quick. Think of modern day Nola or BR, its just young kids shooting each other all over the place and committing crimes on their own, no real purpose or leadership from older people.
Now a days but the show was mostly based on 80s and 90s and that is how it was and frankly in many ways still is. All the characters are based on real life
Like Omar was really the gangbanger Andrew's who robbed lots of drug dealers in the 90s. Even the scene where Omar jumps out the window is based on him, scene where he wears a wire is based off Andrew's and burns own cooperation as banger and cop.
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