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After ALL the lies the media spread about the Rittenhouse case, I wouldn't believe anything the media said.
That's funny you say that...I was reading a post that was made on The Wire web page and I thought...that is exactly like something I would say and looked up and it was a post I made a couple years ago.
Did not even know about an IMDB 2,
I'm just glad someone is using this site. I miss the old IMDB and just recently found this place and thought it would get more traffic.
Maybe it is intentionally done to make him appear as the rugged out doorsman type.
I retired from law enforcement after 32 years. When this show came out I refused to watch it as I never watched "cop" shows on TV. After I retired someone else told me that I really needed to watch it.
After the 3 episode, I honestly thought they had hidden cameras at my department and the show was based off of that. I was amazed at everything in this show. The back stabbing among the officers rank and command, the politics associated with each position, the drug dealers the press. Everything was so spot on it is/was uncanny.
After 31 years from going from a green rookie to 1 of 4 deputy Chiefs of Police, my duties and responsibilities changed throughout my career and as a result..I was most of the police characters in this show. Starting out, I never thought I would be but that doesn't matter, responsibilities change and you become a different person/officer over the years.
Unfortunately like McNaulty....After my 31 years, I retired and after looking back, I don't believe I made a single difference in the world. Although I had some of the best, worst, scariest and funniest times in my life...at the end of the day, It was a wasted career.
My guess is maybe the fact that cheese got all willy nilly with his own gun pointing at the other fellow. Maybe slim charles felt that after cheese set up joe AND he's point guns at his own people, Charles felt it was best to eliminate the loose cannon.
I would buy the book if you ever wrote one!!
I went through the academy in 1988 and before we completed our last course of instruction 2 fellows came in and conducted some interviews with a handful of guys. When we returned to class the next day, 2 of our classmates were gone.
About a year later I found out that both cadets were removed from class and had worked undercover for the narcotics unit. We were in a college city so their short hair was not really out of place. I had always wondered how those two were selected and it basically came down to being single, having the gift of gab and basically not looking like a cop....as much as possible.
When those two officers completed their assignment, they were both transferred to patrol for about 6 months at which point they were again transferred to a street level drug interdiction unit.
Many times, drug units or organized crime units don't want someone who is or has been in law enforcement for any length of time because of the habits and characteristics picked up by being in law enforcement. In this case (The Departed) Leo was supposed to be brilliant but I would imagine that it would still be quite the undertaken to be thrown into the South Boston mob