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‘The Wire’ creator rips ‘s–tbird’ who said show is ‘conservative art’

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you better watch your back.”“The Wire” creator has irately chirped back at fans who likened his exceptional hometown Baltimore drug detective drama from the early 2000s to “the best piece of conservative art ever made” on Tuesday.“When a s–tbird mangles an opponent’s language into his own rhetoric, you can be assured of one thing, he’s stuffing a strawman weak enough so he can wrestle with it.

Two things can be true at once and in this case are,” Simon wrote, quoting a now restricted view post from user @RowanKaiser.The original Tweet read: “The Wire remains the best piece of conservative art ever made.

David Simon has no idea that’s true though.”Simon continued in a long winded tirade, criticizing mass incarceration, unethical law enforcement tactics, and most of all, calling out a lack of convictions towards violent offenders.“The skill set to retroactively investigate a murder or rape or robbery and arrest the right person has been devalued dramatically.

Even the patrol function in urban department has been transformed from…crime prevention to that of street-level hunting and gathering of drug stats.

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