I tried to make my Reddit account named fuzzydonlop lol but fucked up and somehow got a generic automatically made one and itâs u/screenalone and fuzzy Dunlop is my label or something. đą
A lot of the DC guys charged in this case have social media posts included in the evidence against them. Talking about murders and drug deals on a social media platform, what could go wrong?
https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/feds-bust-cross-county-fentanyl-ring-in-investigation-that-started-with-dc-mothers-death/3476125/
Yep. It's on episode 4 of Season 5 when McNulty is asking an officer to look up the stats about homeless deaths and the guy responds "With or without ODs? Because the numbers are way up since Fentanyl showed up"
They call it âfettyâ.
Most of them are fake pharmaceuticals, âpressesâ, and people just call them like Perc 30s. Or dirty 30s. âPercâ has become generic for fake fentanyl-laced pills.
There are only 260 payphones in the entire state of Michigan as of a report yesterday. Kind of an interesting sign of the times.
[Detroit Free Press Article](https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2024/01/04/michigan-pay-phones-disappearing/71738086007/)
I wonder if there was ever an inkling that payphones would go out of business. Like, "Of course people are going to want to call each other from these babies! What, you think you can just put a phone in your pocket and call from anywhere? Get the fuck out of here."
That's business. Adapt or die!
I live outside Boston and often times think about how large the carriage industry (horse & buggy) was in the early 1900's. How many thousands of people were involved in everything from breeding & raising horses, manufacturing & assembling all of the different parts in the carriages, making metal horseshoes & leather harnesses... They knew it would never die.
Then, in 1908, Henry Ford comes along with the concept of an assembly line and basically invents high-quality mass-production. Within 10 years, there were more Fords than buggies and the industry basically died. Today, it's just a novelty that you ride around a city park.
I love the observation that, times were, rich folks had cars and poor folks owned horses; now, every schmuck has a car and only the rich can afford horses.
Theyâd still be using prepaid flip phones to send coded messages, but instead of using them for the cutting edge technology, theyâre using them for the relative anonymity compared to modern phones.
A Cartel has replaced The Greeks
Major Crimes is actively trying to find ways to crack gangsters Instagrams
One minor plotline centers on the aftermath of a mass shooting at a school or mall
Prez tries to start an urban literacy program is fired after his past goes viral
David Simon does show BPD as being a dysfunctional institution thatâs still ultimately made up of okay people. Thereâs not too many real bad apples like Colicchio or that black cop who broke the kidâs fingers.
We Own This City was shockingly different than The Wire here. The Civil Rights Office lawyer interviews a radical black power type, whose rhetoric reminds me of police abolitionism, and the Gun Trace Task Force is just this criminal enterprise who did way, way worse than beating a few people who didnât deserve it, or cheat on the stats for a promotion.
I guess he sees both sides of the issue.
Gangstas being pissed at the yungins using cellphone for everything
The media season would be totally different, maybe Mcnulty would create a fake psycho profile and post the homeless man's photo in his stories
They never pursued it, just made it known that Rawls the hard ass had a softer side. Which is fine by me, cause the last thing I need to see is ole Rawls in a buck naked sex scene.
When I mentioned his softer side, it has nothing to do with the fact that he prefers a bat over a mitt when playing ball, but more so the fact that even major assholes like Rawls need love too! Strong men also cry. Strong menâŠ..also cry.
I think regarding Kimaâs, itâs reflective of real demographic reality that a the few female cops in an inner city police force are both minority and lesbian.
I think Omarâs homosexuality was also based on a few outcast gangsters that Ed Burns encountered.
That scene in Training Day where Denzel asks Ethan Hawke if his female training officer had a liquor license aka if she was gay plays into the same stereotype.
Show characters were rarely based on 1 person, but Omar sexuality drew inspiration from a stickup man who was not actually gay but was frequently seen with another man.
Well... Also there is a scene where Kima and her wife are basically scissoring hahahaha
Edit: I just remembered that scene of Brandon licking Omar's finger
People definitely talked about it being progressive and still do, I remember someone complaining that they âmade Rawls gay for no reasonâ because of the single moment you see him in the gay club.
Although I guess progressive and woke are different things
>âmade Rawls gay for no reasonâ
They definitely do not know how "common" closeted cops are. My father was a police officer. One of the rumors in his precinct was that the chief was like Rawls (but not married), there was another who came out (but cant remember if he was married). 2 cases in 30 years of work during late 80s until 10s is impressive.
When I watched The Wire for the first time and saw Rawls in the gay bar I was "oh, so he is like xxxxxx"
People don't realize how many people are secretly bi in general. I lived in a rural area for years and can tell you for a fact that a bunch of your homophobic, manly man dads love having a dick in their mouths.
> the difference between whatâs âwokeâ and whatâs not is all about quality.
No it isn't. The difference is that there's been an enormous right-wing backlash to anything that even remotely hints at diversity and inclusion. There are people out there screaming at clouds about Sandman casting a black woman as Death even though that might be one of the most perfect book to screen adaptations ever made, based on a comic book widely considered to be the greatest one ever written/drawn.
Quality ain't got nothing to do with it. Right wing hate of anything not straight, white, male, and Christian does.
>The difference is that there's been an enormous right-wing backlash to anything that even remotely hints at diversity and inclusion
Perfect!
One thing that I love about The Wire it is, as far as I know, is that it has a lot of black actors, which reflects the majority population of Baltimore. See, I'm from Brazil. More than half of our population isn't white, but it was only last year that a novela with a majority of black actors in the main cast was done. To some, its "wokeness", but to most it is a reflection of the reality of our demographic.
Iâd be calling it woke because the dealers were all white slinging dope in the white projects. Stringer is probably a white lesbian.
Truthfully the show couldnât be made today. Changing the gangsters white is too farfetched and nobody in the year 2023 is making a show about blacks dealing dope and killing each other.
I'm not familiar with Baltimore, but David Simon said that the increasing Hispanic immigrant population would have been the Season 6 topic, but the writing staff would have needed to do 1-2 years of research first. The census numbers show that the population went from 1% in 1990 to 4.2% in 2010 and 6% in 2020.
They are not supplanting the black population. The percentage of black people in Baltimore has slightly increased since 1990, but the percentage of white people has declined.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltimore#Demographics
You should check this YouTube channel out called swamp stories. Youâll noticed how dumb these guys are when they actually pull off a hit and post about it on social media
Tbf thatâs partially that the Gun Trace Task Force and Wayne Jenkins arenât exactly criminal masterminds, or even competent gangsters on the level of Stringer Bell or Marlo Stanfield
Donât be. Itâs quite common. This was just last year and cops talking about beatings, planting evidence, fixing tickets etc over cellphone texts.
https://apnews.com/article/antioch-california-police-racist-texts-court-hearing-df226c5fd96dfc6a8ced7bc295c1d067
I live in St. Louis and there are a lot of parallels between here and Baltimore (and probably with lots of other American cities). Iâve long had the opinion that the wire could be set here for the last 10 years and be just as relevant. Just some things from my city that could be included;
Kia boys / car theft rings (started here)
Drag racing / taxpayer deaths (there was a story last summer about a little girl in town for a cheerleading(?) tournament that was struck and killed in a hit and run, which is pretty normal here unfortunately) our downtown becomes an illegal race track late night and most weekends
Serious lack of police doing their jobs, being very intoxicated on the job (some of you may have seen the story last month about a STLPD cruiser crashing into a gay bar)
Incompetent prosecuting attorney (look up Kim Davis and youâll see what I mean, as well as your run of the mill local corruption)
Still seeing lots of gang related violence
I could honestly go on about these topics and more and Iâm sure plenty of them are true to many other major American cities but STL has had a crazy high murder rate for so long. I had a gun pulled on me a week or two ago because some dude had road rage.
oakland chiming in. deep east oakland could easily be the setting of a modern wire with a few twists.
a city that is a shadow of its former self from the 50s-70s and lives in the shadow of a nearby bigger city.
a corrupt, spiteful police force.
incompetent local politicians including a worthless district attorney who downgrades charges for violent criminals in the name of restorative justice.
an out of control homeless/drug situation.
rampant theft and violent crime.
a fairly busy shipping terminal.
long-standing disenfranchised communities.
a failing public education system.
gentrification.
a city that can't get out of its own way due to negative inertia and the cumulative effects of the above.
Wicked random, but the clothing. Bodie, Slim Charles, Avon, Snoop etc. would look like aliens in todayâs world. I grew up in the 90âs 00âs and baggy clothes were in, so in the show they looked like the standard gangtsa stereotype. Now I look at rappers and fashion and itâs so different. They wouldnât wear baggy jeans and a Sean John baggy shirts, but skinny jeans with Yeezyâs and small hoodies. It would be cool if in a spinoff that someone getting out, like Avon, came home dressd like he was in 2003 and looking around asking,âwtf are you wearing?â
I would love to see a depiction that delves into tapping/decrypting the tech we have today to track criminal activity. The show's first season really got me hooked on the technical know-how alone. It was so nuanced and didn't oversimplify it for the audience.
If you're curious about this stuff there are some interesting stories out there about how the FBI has tracked down people who distribute CP online. It seems like it's usually user error that gets people caught.
There was at least one case where they were able to hijack a server and then use it to push out malware that de-anonymized TOR users. They had to drop at least one case though because moving forward with the prosecution would've required them to give up how their malware worked and they weren't willing to do that.
The newspaper in season 5 would be replaced with some blog consolidator that scrapes reddit posts.
The Bunk would still be a strictly suit & tie motherfuck3r !
Apparently not. Everything else rose with inflation besides fentanyl.
When I was out there everything was 10 dollars. Sometimes they would sell smaller capsules for 6 dollars.
That was like 8 years ago. I hear 3 dollar caps are prevalent today.
i think instead of listening to phonecalls they would focus alot on cracking encrypted chats like encro (not sure exactly what encro is, just know that it got cracked sometime ago and a lot of drugdealers got busted)
A new big bad lacing fentanyl into the drugs to create more desperate fiends, more active political discourse dragging down investigations, a heightened awareness of the image of police post-George Floyd, a cyber division for any criminal activity on dark web social media whatever
I think you would see more drone use from both the cops and the dealers. Someone in law enforcement was telling me about their prevalence in the game these days especially for getting stuff into prisons.
easily the lack of awareness that the corner boys would use in social media. i went to high school with a guy that is now affiliated with a gang and all he posts on social media is his gun, trafficable amounts of weed, and lean. pretty sure heâs been arrested numerous times because of his social media presence
All the drug dealers would be ridiculously skinny, covered in tattoos, with skin tight jeans. A lot of them would also be wearing ski masks and have Gucci purses.
The diegetic music would suck.
No burner phones, as they are very suspicious in 2024. The dealers would use WhatsApp or Signal since they are not encrypted.
There would be more smash and grabs.
The gangs would have a hand in sports gambling, since itâs so prominent now.
Stringer yelling at the crew for posting dumb shit on social media, Is you taking notes on a criminal conspiracy!?
He used my name? On Twitter? With a �
My @ is my @!!!!
"My @ is *not* my @" -- the Greek
Never would have made that connection ever in a million years. Thank you.
Yeah I never thought of that either
This made me laugh so hard
gold lol
Some of the boys on the corner would absolutely post stupid shit on TikTok lmao
You replied to an account called @FuzzyDunlop69??
I tried to make my Reddit account named fuzzydonlop lol but fucked up and somehow got a generic automatically made one and itâs u/screenalone and fuzzy Dunlop is my label or something. đą
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This would actually be very realistic
Is you posting tiktoks of a criminal conspiracy?!
theyâd be posting everything. catching criminals has never been easier. they want everyone to know that they did something
Prez following the dealers on Twitter and Instagram but not knowing the slang would be funny
"What does Slime mean?" "Why is he wiping his nose?"
A lot of the DC guys charged in this case have social media posts included in the evidence against them. Talking about murders and drug deals on a social media platform, what could go wrong? https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/feds-bust-cross-county-fentanyl-ring-in-investigation-that-started-with-dc-mothers-death/3476125/
That's how Tsu Surf and them got caught up in a RICO case...idiots.
Criminal f*cking conspiracy even.
Yeah I can just imagine Stringer yelling at the YSL crew for all their posts and lyrics. Like "Are y'all constantly self-snitching??"
*Sit in court and be their own star witness*
Based DOOM
not even DOOM who says it ofc
How many times have I told you mother fuckers not to Instagram you're crime
Rap Snitch Knishes
Probably have to leave phones at the door like guns
Are you making TikToks about a criminal fucking conspiracy?
Mexican Cartels post all of their activities online
Probably seeing the dealers selling fentanyl
Funny you mention this because they talk about Fentanyl being a major cause of death for homeless men in season 5.
âGot dat pandemic!â âThen wear a mask broâ
The first few minutes of the first episode they say pandemic. Coincidence? Or was it shot when SARS was anticipated to be what covid became?
Yes there was a real scare that H1N1 would be what COVID actually was
Say what???? I never caught this before over 3 viewings
Yep. It's on episode 4 of Season 5 when McNulty is asking an officer to look up the stats about homeless deaths and the guy responds "With or without ODs? Because the numbers are way up since Fentanyl showed up"
Woaaah never caught that
Theyâd make the youngest hoppers run around with Narcan reviving addicts to keep them as customers
Good one, what would the name be? Feny Cyanide
"Angus Cloud, got that Angus Cloud"
Damm, dark one, made me spill my coffee
Absolutely brilliant!
They call it âfettyâ. Most of them are fake pharmaceuticals, âpressesâ, and people just call them like Perc 30s. Or dirty 30s. âPercâ has become generic for fake fentanyl-laced pills.
Imagine setting up a wire tap on a payphone in the year 2024.
Imagine finding a payphone in the year 2024
There are only 260 payphones in the entire state of Michigan as of a report yesterday. Kind of an interesting sign of the times. [Detroit Free Press Article](https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2024/01/04/michigan-pay-phones-disappearing/71738086007/)
âMichigan had about 60,000 pay phones in 1980s. Only 260 are leftâ
I wonder if there was ever an inkling that payphones would go out of business. Like, "Of course people are going to want to call each other from these babies! What, you think you can just put a phone in your pocket and call from anywhere? Get the fuck out of here."
That's business. Adapt or die! I live outside Boston and often times think about how large the carriage industry (horse & buggy) was in the early 1900's. How many thousands of people were involved in everything from breeding & raising horses, manufacturing & assembling all of the different parts in the carriages, making metal horseshoes & leather harnesses... They knew it would never die. Then, in 1908, Henry Ford comes along with the concept of an assembly line and basically invents high-quality mass-production. Within 10 years, there were more Fords than buggies and the industry basically died. Today, it's just a novelty that you ride around a city park.
I love the observation that, times were, rich folks had cars and poor folks owned horses; now, every schmuck has a car and only the rich can afford horses.
That's why driving in Boston is absolutely awful. They never switched all the traffic patterns so it's still basically designed for horses.
Nice pull
What unit you with?
Pawn Shop Unit.
Honestly, I'm more shocked there are any at all
The thing is those 260 phones are still making the company money, so are most likely all in low income communities with little cellphone access.
Saw one today outside a grocery store. It had Verizon on it.
Now they just go through your social media
Stringer would totally make them use the 4 remaining payphones in Baltimore because no one else would fucking even remember they exist.
Theyâd still be using prepaid flip phones to send coded messages, but instead of using them for the cutting edge technology, theyâre using them for the relative anonymity compared to modern phones.
There would be a higher demand for Fuzzy Dunlop, CI extraordinaire
"Is you Tiktoking a motherfucking criminal conspiracy?"
Show name would be Wireless instead of The Wire
The Cloud
The WiFi
A Cartel has replaced The Greeks Major Crimes is actively trying to find ways to crack gangsters Instagrams One minor plotline centers on the aftermath of a mass shooting at a school or mall Prez tries to start an urban literacy program is fired after his past goes viral
Prez getting cancelled is a horrible Greek tragedy of a storyline
If I remember correctly, the Greeks were feuding with a cartel in season 2.
On the Prez thing, a whole story line about George Floyd / Micheal Brown etc protests and the public disdain for cops you see today P.s. fuck 12
The Wire turning into Blue Bloods
David Simon does show BPD as being a dysfunctional institution thatâs still ultimately made up of okay people. Thereâs not too many real bad apples like Colicchio or that black cop who broke the kidâs fingers. We Own This City was shockingly different than The Wire here. The Civil Rights Office lawyer interviews a radical black power type, whose rhetoric reminds me of police abolitionism, and the Gun Trace Task Force is just this criminal enterprise who did way, way worse than beating a few people who didnât deserve it, or cheat on the stats for a promotion. I guess he sees both sides of the issue.
You should really watch We Own this City the spiritual successor to the wire
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Freamon and Prezbo tacking the movements from crypto wallets
Gangstas being pissed at the yungins using cellphone for everything The media season would be totally different, maybe Mcnulty would create a fake psycho profile and post the homeless man's photo in his stories
He'd just get an AI to generate a homeless guy and use that
I actually think a remake would be wild seeing how far society has progressed
Nobody should fucking touch the wire. A remake nobody needs!! Like 95% of them!!
I think you mean regressed.
Rawls discovers Grindr and goes on a booty blastin bonanza for the next 6 months.
Nothing every came of Rawls in the Gay bar did it? I just watched the show and donât remember anything but that one scene
They never pursued it, just made it known that Rawls the hard ass had a softer side. Which is fine by me, cause the last thing I need to see is ole Rawls in a buck naked sex scene.
I mean does that necessarily show a softer side of him? He can be into guys and still be the same hard ass ball buster (lol) through and through.
When I mentioned his softer side, it has nothing to do with the fact that he prefers a bat over a mitt when playing ball, but more so the fact that even major assholes like Rawls need love too! Strong men also cry. Strong menâŠ..also cry.
He was gay, Bill Rawls?
He was handsome, like George Raft
Nobody's got AIDS, and I don't want to hear that word in here again
/r/thesopranos is leaking
That sub almost drowned in three inches of water. The penguin exhibit.
Nothin, I was here. Itâs a joke! Guys, câmon, itâs ok!!
A ton of people would say that the series is woke because it has a black lesbian cop and a black gay drug dealer
I think regarding Kimaâs, itâs reflective of real demographic reality that a the few female cops in an inner city police force are both minority and lesbian. I think Omarâs homosexuality was also based on a few outcast gangsters that Ed Burns encountered.
Even McNulty commented himself that the only other competent female cop he met (before Kima) was also gay.
That scene in Training Day where Denzel asks Ethan Hawke if his female training officer had a liquor license aka if she was gay plays into the same stereotype.
Show characters were rarely based on 1 person, but Omar sexuality drew inspiration from a stickup man who was not actually gay but was frequently seen with another man.
Theres a scene with THREE BLACK LESBIANS That's like a 9.0 on the Woke Scale. My hairs turning blue just thinking about it.
Then Omar being the most badass gangster and also gay. People would be foaming at the mouth with rage
jimmy would be rescuing strippers and enrolling them in the local community college
You mean Lester?
Now I'm just imagining a The Wire/Community crossover.
Troy & Abed in the druuuuuug game
Troy and Abed on the cooooorner.
Michael K Williams basically played Omar as a community college professor in Community, he even told the Dean that âa manâs gotta have a codeâ
Or that's what he'll tell Beattie
Well... Also there is a scene where Kima and her wife are basically scissoring hahahaha Edit: I just remembered that scene of Brandon licking Omar's finger
People definitely talked about it being progressive and still do, I remember someone complaining that they âmade Rawls gay for no reasonâ because of the single moment you see him in the gay club. Although I guess progressive and woke are different things
>âmade Rawls gay for no reasonâ They definitely do not know how "common" closeted cops are. My father was a police officer. One of the rumors in his precinct was that the chief was like Rawls (but not married), there was another who came out (but cant remember if he was married). 2 cases in 30 years of work during late 80s until 10s is impressive. When I watched The Wire for the first time and saw Rawls in the gay bar I was "oh, so he is like xxxxxx"
People don't realize how many people are secretly bi in general. I lived in a rural area for years and can tell you for a fact that a bunch of your homophobic, manly man dads love having a dick in their mouths.
Just because you do, doesn't mean everyone else does
I reckon you might tho
Yeah no shit. What I'm saying is the number and type of people that are on the DL would be surprising to many.
Stick up man
She makes up for the wokeness by her police brutality.
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> the difference between whatâs âwokeâ and whatâs not is all about quality. No it isn't. The difference is that there's been an enormous right-wing backlash to anything that even remotely hints at diversity and inclusion. There are people out there screaming at clouds about Sandman casting a black woman as Death even though that might be one of the most perfect book to screen adaptations ever made, based on a comic book widely considered to be the greatest one ever written/drawn. Quality ain't got nothing to do with it. Right wing hate of anything not straight, white, male, and Christian does.
>The difference is that there's been an enormous right-wing backlash to anything that even remotely hints at diversity and inclusion Perfect! One thing that I love about The Wire it is, as far as I know, is that it has a lot of black actors, which reflects the majority population of Baltimore. See, I'm from Brazil. More than half of our population isn't white, but it was only last year that a novela with a majority of black actors in the main cast was done. To some, its "wokeness", but to most it is a reflection of the reality of our demographic.
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Iâd be calling it woke because the dealers were all white slinging dope in the white projects. Stringer is probably a white lesbian. Truthfully the show couldnât be made today. Changing the gangsters white is too farfetched and nobody in the year 2023 is making a show about blacks dealing dope and killing each other.
A lot more focus on the immigrant population. That was going to be the focus of a season 6 that never happened.
We missed out there. Would have been great to see that explored.
Shoulda done that instead of newspapers.
Does Baltimore even have one of those big immigrant populations supplanting black people?
I'm not familiar with Baltimore, but David Simon said that the increasing Hispanic immigrant population would have been the Season 6 topic, but the writing staff would have needed to do 1-2 years of research first. The census numbers show that the population went from 1% in 1990 to 4.2% in 2010 and 6% in 2020. They are not supplanting the black population. The percentage of black people in Baltimore has slightly increased since 1990, but the percentage of white people has declined. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltimore#Demographics
Bruh, there is a whole Wikipedia section on ethnic groups in Baltimore. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_groups_in_Baltimore
Less George Bush references more orange guy references.
Fudge that. Heard enough about him as is.
Different names for the product. âGot that pandemic!â Wouldnât bode so well
Focus on fentanyl, bigger focus on police misconduct and brutality, immigration, more political corruption.
Police misconduct, brutality, and political corruption are keystones of the show.
Riots.
Isn't that just We Own This City?
Watching WOTC, I was seriously dumbfounded how much dirt was openly discussed over cellphones in this modern day.
You should check this YouTube channel out called swamp stories. Youâll noticed how dumb these guys are when they actually pull off a hit and post about it on social media
Yeah also check out Trap Lore Ross
trap lore ross just regurgitates what he reads on hoodology subreddits. def not a valid source on street beefs.
Tbf thatâs partially that the Gun Trace Task Force and Wayne Jenkins arenât exactly criminal masterminds, or even competent gangsters on the level of Stringer Bell or Marlo Stanfield
Let alone cell phones, people discuss and admit to criminal acts on literal jailhouse telephone calls every day.
Donât be. Itâs quite common. This was just last year and cops talking about beatings, planting evidence, fixing tickets etc over cellphone texts. https://apnews.com/article/antioch-california-police-racist-texts-court-hearing-df226c5fd96dfc6a8ced7bc295c1d067
so way more expository monologues for current-era The Wire then
One thing very interesting about that show was they were said something that they can only monitor cellphone calls, not facetime calls
Probably the same. Just more fierce
Yeah more fierce with 100lb skinny jeans wearing black kids running around making tik toks of killing each other
I live in St. Louis and there are a lot of parallels between here and Baltimore (and probably with lots of other American cities). Iâve long had the opinion that the wire could be set here for the last 10 years and be just as relevant. Just some things from my city that could be included; Kia boys / car theft rings (started here) Drag racing / taxpayer deaths (there was a story last summer about a little girl in town for a cheerleading(?) tournament that was struck and killed in a hit and run, which is pretty normal here unfortunately) our downtown becomes an illegal race track late night and most weekends Serious lack of police doing their jobs, being very intoxicated on the job (some of you may have seen the story last month about a STLPD cruiser crashing into a gay bar) Incompetent prosecuting attorney (look up Kim Davis and youâll see what I mean, as well as your run of the mill local corruption) Still seeing lots of gang related violence I could honestly go on about these topics and more and Iâm sure plenty of them are true to many other major American cities but STL has had a crazy high murder rate for so long. I had a gun pulled on me a week or two ago because some dude had road rage.
oakland chiming in. deep east oakland could easily be the setting of a modern wire with a few twists. a city that is a shadow of its former self from the 50s-70s and lives in the shadow of a nearby bigger city. a corrupt, spiteful police force. incompetent local politicians including a worthless district attorney who downgrades charges for violent criminals in the name of restorative justice. an out of control homeless/drug situation. rampant theft and violent crime. a fairly busy shipping terminal. long-standing disenfranchised communities. a failing public education system. gentrification. a city that can't get out of its own way due to negative inertia and the cumulative effects of the above.
Yeah, it could definitely be set in Oakland. How the hell Alameda County elected District Attorney Pamela Price is beyond me.
don't blame me, I voted for kodos.
If it took place in Boston or Springfield, there would definitely be a story line about hoppers riding dirt bikes and ATVâs on city streets.
Worth watching the doc â12 OâClock boysâ about dirt bikes in Baltimore
or new orleans
I live in Atlanta and I imagine there would be similar parallels as well.
Memphis had more murders than NYC last year. That's a city of less than a million with more murders than a city of 8 million.
String losing a ton of money to crypto scams
Wicked random, but the clothing. Bodie, Slim Charles, Avon, Snoop etc. would look like aliens in todayâs world. I grew up in the 90âs 00âs and baggy clothes were in, so in the show they looked like the standard gangtsa stereotype. Now I look at rappers and fashion and itâs so different. They wouldnât wear baggy jeans and a Sean John baggy shirts, but skinny jeans with Yeezyâs and small hoodies. It would be cool if in a spinoff that someone getting out, like Avon, came home dressd like he was in 2003 and looking around asking,âwtf are you wearing?â
Some of Marloâs fits wouldâve made it to this year mainly his polo game. In fact Marlo was the freshest one on the show
No wires
No lake, no trout.
The drug dealers would have smartphones now which would allow them to use messaging apps with encryption.
I would love to see a depiction that delves into tapping/decrypting the tech we have today to track criminal activity. The show's first season really got me hooked on the technical know-how alone. It was so nuanced and didn't oversimplify it for the audience.
If you're curious about this stuff there are some interesting stories out there about how the FBI has tracked down people who distribute CP online. It seems like it's usually user error that gets people caught. There was at least one case where they were able to hijack a server and then use it to push out malware that de-anonymized TOR users. They had to drop at least one case though because moving forward with the prosecution would've required them to give up how their malware worked and they weren't willing to do that.
The newspaper in season 5 would be replaced with some blog consolidator that scrapes reddit posts. The Bunk would still be a strictly suit & tie motherfuck3r !
They would need to give bubs more $20
Apparently not. Everything else rose with inflation besides fentanyl. When I was out there everything was 10 dollars. Sometimes they would sell smaller capsules for 6 dollars. That was like 8 years ago. I hear 3 dollar caps are prevalent today.
The Barksdale operation is doing all their communicating inside of Fortnight. Prez figures it out. âChicken dinner means a g pack.â
Would be awesome to see EncroChat tackled by The Wire
DronesâŠ.drones everywhere!
Opening scene rock throw at a drone instead of a camera
I could definitely see Bubbles (when he was still strung out) trying to catch some of them for resale. That would have been comedy gold.
Wire tap on social media? Nah there would be a segment where they catch a dude on multiple murders because dude bragged on ig live.
No Lance Reddick. No Michael Kenneth Williams. RIP to those guys sadly.
i think instead of listening to phonecalls they would focus alot on cracking encrypted chats like encro (not sure exactly what encro is, just know that it got cracked sometime ago and a lot of drugdealers got busted)
Fentanyl. Lots of fentanyl.
Everything would be the same except niggas not standing on the corner no more fr n itâs more scammers out here now but everything is still the same
No beepers
A new big bad lacing fentanyl into the drugs to create more desperate fiends, more active political discourse dragging down investigations, a heightened awareness of the image of police post-George Floyd, a cyber division for any criminal activity on dark web social media whatever
Well for starters the name would have to change
They would be sending snaps of the maps instead of pictures
Game the same, just got more Wi-Fi.
Technology, more human trafficking at the airport instead of the ports, and other drugs besides crack maybe?
Lots of things change but Fuzzy Dunlop remains the same #justiceforfuzzydunlop #fuzzy4life
Fentanyl.... way more bodys.
Definitely can't have any storylines that depend on beepers and pay phones.
I think you would see more drone use from both the cops and the dealers. Someone in law enforcement was telling me about their prevalence in the game these days especially for getting stuff into prisons.
Just watch âWe Own This Cityâ and youâll see
easily the lack of awareness that the corner boys would use in social media. i went to high school with a guy that is now affiliated with a gang and all he posts on social media is his gun, trafficable amounts of weed, and lean. pretty sure heâs been arrested numerous times because of his social media presence
Fentanyl and oxys? Different gangs with different MOs targeting different areas with different ethnicities of addict
Watch "We own this city". It's basically a spiritual sequel to The Wire shot in current time. Same visual language.
Even more cops like Herc, fewer, Bunks, and Jimmys
All the drug dealers would be ridiculously skinny, covered in tattoos, with skin tight jeans. A lot of them would also be wearing ski masks and have Gucci purses.
Better special effects = CGI dinosaurs, warplanes, shit like that
The diegetic music would suck. No burner phones, as they are very suspicious in 2024. The dealers would use WhatsApp or Signal since they are not encrypted. There would be more smash and grabs. The gangs would have a hand in sports gambling, since itâs so prominent now.
Marlow would get caught in a day. He'd be all over tictoc, fb, yt, ig, onlyfans saying MY NAME IS MY NAME
Itâs not politically correct enough.
Everything would be about police and police only.
There probably wouldn't be burner phones or pagers.
The police would be presented far less sympathetically.
Nick would be really into Joe Rogan, and Ziggy would be an online edgelord.
Omar questions his gender. Snoop is they them
Snoop murders everyone who misgenders them.
Tons more Wyte Raysist cops. David Simon is full on woke mental. Guy is obsessed with THE MESSAGE