How did a white guy create a more realistic portrayal of the hood than any black person in Hollywoo?

[Wiseborn]

They spent way too much time on the cac and the Mexicans.

I get it but again most other "drug movies" focus on Black people slinging and not on the dope and how it gets in.

Take the way El Chapo was taken down. CIA was on his communications network he had two brothers responsible for all the dope sold from the Sinaloa Cartel in the Mid West. Those brothers ran dope and a million Black drug mobs rose and fell yet them dudes was still on the streets and unknown.

The only reason they got caught is because they had to go to Mexico for a Meet and they thought they would be killed so they ran to the DEA and started snitching. They catch loads (they just caught one in Colombia a couple of days ago) The city bosses have 5 or 6 year runs and even big bosses get caught But the Dope always gets though If the dudes who facilitated bring the shyt in where caught they could be no real drugs comming in. It would be all speedboats and airplanes. Radars catch them but they can't catch the people shipping in it through coffee.

The Real Balitmore Police failed to catch the Philly Greek Mob who was supplying Little Melvin so it seems plausible that CIA or whoever whould look the other way if drugs got in as long as no dirty bombs got in. There's tons of precedent where the Government made deals with criminals like this.

 

[Wiseborn]

The Wire is great because the overall story is being shown from different viewpoints.
Shows like Money & Violence and Power, Top Boy etc are only showing viewpoint.
I was amazed watching The Wire when it came out and saw how hard it was for those cops to get wire taps. How they had to basically beg a judge. I couldn't imagine it being that difficult in NYC.
Also, the criminals in the show didn't seem larger than life like Ghost or a criminal mastermind like Tariq who can outsmart everyone.
Lastly, a lot of the acting in the Wire was very good. That's why many of them ended up starring in movies and other shows afterwards.

It probably is. Judges handle all kinds of cases, They're more interested in Terrorism and Poliitcal corruption, They probably don't give a fukk about autorizing a tap on Ray-Ray from around the way.

I can't find the clip but in Training Day Alonzo heavily implied that he bribed a judge to get a warrant.

 

[FunkDoc1112]

I get it but again most other "drug movies" focus on Black people slinging and not on the dope and how it gets in.

Take the way El Chapo was taken down. CIA was on his communications network he had two brothers responsible for all the dope sold from the Sinaloa Cartel in the Mid West. Those brothers ran dope and a million Black drug mobs rose and fell yet them dudes was still on the streets and unknown.

The only reason they got caught is because they had to go to Mexico for a Meet and they thought they would be killed so they ran to the DEA and started snitching. They catch loads (they just caught one in Colombia a couple of days ago) The city bosses have 5 or 6 year runs and even big bosses get caught But the Dope always gets though If the dudes who facilitated bring the shyt in where caught they could be no real drugs comming in. It would be all speedboats and airplanes. Radars catch them but they can't catch the people shipping in it through coffee.

The Real Balitmore Police failed to catch the Philly Greek Mob who was supplying Little Melvin so it seems plausible that CIA or whoever whould look the other way if drugs got in as long as no dirty bombs got in. There's tons of precedent where the Government made deals with criminals like this.

Oh yeah, I agree that the underpinings are important to the show and critical to what Singleton was trying to show...I just feel the balance was way off at first, and the story wasn't compelling enough to hold my interest

 

[Wiseborn]

Oh yeah, I agree that the underpinings are important to the show and critical to what Singleton was trying to show...I just feel the balance was way off at first, and the story wasn't compelling enough to hold my interest

Well it was politics. Simon admitted that the show's ratings were low especially with white people and it was constanty compared to the high rated Sopranos.

But from a political sense although I'd be cool to see Omar rip and run through all the drug mobs it was important to show for once how drugs get in and how complict everyone is in letting that happen.

 

[FunkDoc1112]

Well it was politics. Simon admitted that the show's ratings were low especially with white people and it was constanty compared to the high rated Sopranos.

But from a political sense although I'd be cool to see Omar rip and run through all the drug mobs it was important to show for once how drugs get in and how complict everyone is in letting that happen.

Oh no I was talking about Snowfall, not The Wire lol. I dig Season 2.