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"A Paper Bag For Drugs" should be the name of a rap album

So he means Hamsterdam is the bag?

This speech shows why, as much as The Wire gets called the best or most realistic portrayal of police on television, it’s just a higher level and more subtle form of copaganda like dozens of other shows. There is nowhere and no time in the USA where cops have been interested in doing genuine po-lice work, the way this show frames it. Yes, the “war on drugs” made some things worse, but the Baltimore Police Department started out as a nativist, racist white gang occupying and exploiting the residents. It’s just that they didn’t have to make any excuses for it in the past. From a 2022 Baltimore Magazine retrospective on the show: > In the early and mid-1960s, following outrage over police brutality-and a damning two-year investigation by the International Association of Chiefs of Police-the sitting Baltimore police commissioner was ousted. His replacement, Donald Pomerleau, who had consulted on the investigation, described the BPD at the time as “the most corrupt and antiquated in the nation, and had developed almost no positive relationship with the city’s Negro community.” Two decades before, there had been a massive uprising in the city against police brutality after a white officer killed an unarmed Black soldier on leave from Fort Meade, and it wasn’t until the end of the 1950s that the police department began to integrate. > > The corruption and police brutality simply never ended. In 1973, there were at least six different city, state, and federal investigations into the police department. In January of the same year, in a brazen theft that would’ve made the GTTF officers in We Own This City blush, some 1,250 bags of heroin, worth an estimated $100,000, went missing from the Baltimore police department’s evidence control room. (Also in the 1970s, Black officers founded the Vanguard Justice Society, to represent their rights and interests, and help Black officers move up the chain of command.) By 1980, the NAACP had again called for a federal investigation into police brutality, and it wasn’t until 1984 that then-Mayor William Donald Schaefer appointed Bishop Robinson as Baltimore’s first Black police commissioner.

Two good Goddamn police right there

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That’s going to go on his tombstone lol

one of my favorite quotes from the show

Herc did not get this.

Hands down the greatest monologue in tv history. It hits on so many layers. The delicate balancing act of police, and the public. Being protectors of citizens, rather than seeming to be an occupying army. Respect, whether it be not needlessly harrassing the public. And in turn the people showing respect, and gratitude to officers who willingly will lay their lives on the line for them. Thats the ideal, anyway. The dialogue is economical, poetic, effective. Its transcendent.

the beginnings of reduced drug sentencing

2015 ist schon lange her aber die Nachwirkungen sind immer noch da und werden auch bleiben. Das hat nichts mit menschlicher Asylpolitik sondern mit gutmenschlicher Einfalt und Ereiferung zu tun ! Und sich schützend hinter den Islam zu stellen ist wohl das Dümmste was man als Linker tun kann... Die Tante in dem Video sollte sich ein Kopftuch aufsetzen und in ein muslimisches Land auswandern.......und vorher die Drogen absetzen.

Das ist der richtige Kanal...da weiß man alles.

The three words every man wants to hear

colvin: "fuck the bosses" mcnutty: "now you speaking my language"

The way Bunny kept mentioning his pension I knew he was gonna get fucked in the end.

This is the most significant speech in The Wire. It goes to the heart of the series. To many people sleep on The Paper Bag Speech. I think this was written by Richard Price who wrote The Color of Money and The Warriors back in the day.

Bunny Colvin is a true definition of an alpha male. A real man, a leader of men!

This is a very good speech, kind of a speech only good leaders could give. I am surprised there is no the Wire fans as much as they are on other videos comment section

It's almost like McNulty was the boss in this scene. Didn't think of that, did ya?

I THINK Bunny was my favorite character on the show. Every time I think about it, though, I think of another one. Tomorrow it'll probably be Omar again.

This militarism is going to go away pretty soon

That's quite literally the best thing you can say to Mcnulty. He was smiling ear to ear.

Jetzt steht er selbst als Angeklagten vor Gericht !

WTF is McNulty wearing???

music to McNulty's ears

Out the door on pension....god I wish I could retire now from the misery of working life.

Absolutely fuck the bosses!!!

Need the name of the sound in the background

wow sehr super, genial!

I heard he had enough vacation time to make his 30

Colvin-fuck the bosses Mcnulty-have i told you im a serial killer now

Bottle rockets bottle rockets. Bottle rockets

LOL Jimmy's smile was exactly my reaction

That one line made McNulty bust one in his pants

BOTTTLE ROCKET BOTTTLE ROCKET BOTTTLE ROCKET GOT THAT BOTTTLE ROCKET

When even the cops say FUCK THE POLICE.

wie sich der strizzi windet -eckelhaft

And in one simple line from Mcnultys old major, so much of mcnulty as a rebellious cop makes sense

got that wmd righ chere yo

der soll sich einmal seine Haare "Bürsten" haha

Both McNulty and Colvin where Mavericks. McNulty more overtly, but Colvin a little more subtly until it poured out of him at the end. They sensed it about each other and McNulty thrived under Colvin coming up the ranks...

Amen, brother

I don't know If I am exaggerating or not but in this whole scene ( 0:10 to 0:50) you can see the 3 policemen at the same time who are pushing the boundaries (in this sense, bureaucracy) to make police work. Detective Sydnor ( in the end he visits Judge Phelan in his chambers to apply back-channel pressure in order to advance an investigation, much like McNulty did in Season 1.), McNulty ( you already know what he did) and Major Colvin ( McNulty respects Colvin for his natural attitude towards police work). These 3 characters were sometimes a pain in the ass for their some of their corrupted bosses. Brilliant screen play. Love this show.

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Well....at least Colvin had McNulty's blessing: "Fuck the bosses."

soon as Jimmy heard "fuck the bosses" he was with it

Hurn Linke

"fuck the bosses" it's magic word for Jimmy

What he needed more time for

For real though ... fuck the bosses . In every industry they don’t know shit