You can’t make this stuff up
Life imitates art, after art imitated life. In the Baltimore Sun: “arksdale, ‘Wire’ inspiration, pleads guilty in drug case”
Life imitates art, after art imitated life. In the Baltimore Sun: “arksdale, ‘Wire’ inspiration, pleads guilty in drug case”
There’s very little that strikes me as more absurd than offering or accepting a guilty plea for time served. It represents so much about what’s wrong with the criminal justice system. And that’s a lot. If you’re guilty, then it’s a travesty of justice because you get to go home. If you’re innocent, it’s an…
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Omar from The Wire, that is. The story from the Balto Sun. [thanks to a reader]
…As soon as the Department of Justice is “ready to reconsider and address its continuing prosecution of our misguided, destructive and dehumanising drug prohibition.”
David Simon on Snoop’s Arrest from the Baltimore Sun: What follows is a personal statement from David Simon, Creator and Executive Producer of “The Wire” (and currently in production on “Treme”). First of all, Felicia’s entitled to the presumption of innocence. And I would note that a previous, but recent drug arrest that targeted her…
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What makes this one unique is that they got Snoop! And pictures.
Jesse Walker writes about it in Reason. [thanks to Dan K.]
From Vice magazine.
The Christmas crime season is the US begins. This storyfrom the NY Daily News. [November 30 Update] And the Chicago Sun Times. Street crime really does up before Christmas. Keep that in mind. I’m in a pub in York, UK, right now. Leeds, where I’m staying, and where David Simon said he might have set…
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The Sun is starting a nice little feature where a reporter from London and Baltimore switch places.