# The Wire - 9/24

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-wire-9-24/374043>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [September 25, 2006, 7:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-wire-9-24/374043 "2006-09-25T07:57:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![archmichael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bb73d2/32.png) [@archmichael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/archmichael)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2006, 9:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-wire-9-24/374043/41 "2006-09-29T09:10:41Z")

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[QUOTE=Rubystreak]  
Does this make sense to you guys? Not so much that Prez would fuck up, not that it was so hard to believe a first time teacher would handle things wrong, but the combination of how Prez was depicted AND the new teacher freezing up cliche, that bothered me.  
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I know what you are trying to say. I was whispering to myself the entire episode, “Dont do anything crazy! You’re not a cop anymore!”.

I think he realizes now that every time he has tried to be a hard-ass cop or go wild has got him nothing but trouble. Prez being Prez has netted him nothing.

Also I think he realizes that he is truly flying solo now. He has no father-in-law who can protect him. There is no ‘Wall of Blue’ that give him the benefit of the doubt if he does something well-intentioned but disasterous.

Also the racial aspect. I would have loved to see Prez give at least one of those kids a well deserved slap in the back of the head, but in that sense he has less options than any other new teacher. He left the police force under a racial cloud. He shot a black undercover officer, and some felt Prez was too quick to fire on a black person with a gun. So if he had thrown a desk, it wouldn’t have been viewed as an inexperienced teacher losing it. It would have been viewed as that guy who doesn’t like black people terrorizing the kids.

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**Author:** ![jrepka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ee59a6/32.png) [@jrepka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jrepka)\
**Post date:** [October 1, 2006, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-wire-9-24/374043/42 "2006-10-01T00:36:48Z")

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\*\*Why I love this show – \*\*

From Episode 39:

When Marlo is handing out money to the kids and Michael turns it down, Namond tells him (paraphrasing), “If someone’s giving out money, I just take it.”

Senator Davis, after receiving a subpoena from Sydnor, complains to the Mayor: “You think I have time to ask a man why he givin’ me money or where his money come from?”

From Episode 40:

Omar, after having a bag of cocaine dropped in his lap while walking down the street, complains that he doesn’t even want it: “It ain’t what you takin’, it’s who you takin’ it from,” he explains to Renaldo.

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