the wire sketch

"Shit. I used "

"Ok. So three years ago

The police commissioner was going to have to pull off something big to keep his job. So he wanted to a classic cleanup of drug violence in the neighborhood. We had our sights set on this gang

This gang was doing some next level suh-fis-ti-kated shit. None of the dealers were allowed to use the public phone lines to communicate, and everyone of the them had a throwaway burner phone. I mean, this happened around 10 years ago. They had these nail saloons that would act as fronts to launder their drug money.


As it turns out, these motherfucker was sending stacks of bills from these fronts to this senator named Edwin Gelder every week. The police commissioner probably shat his pants because the very next hour he barged into our office and started yelling at my lieutenant."

"The next day we went back to catching low tier nobodies, listening the wiretaps for drug busts. Following the money was off the list. , we caught thirteen drug-dealers and the kingpin with a total of thirty kilograms worth of drugs, and twenty illegal guns, but all of that don't mean shit 'cause the system's all fucked up. You catch a thug, and another takes his place. You catch a kingpin, and another takes his place.


You can tap their phones, send them to jail

but how the fuck, do you change the system?