Baltimore Museum of Art will host an exhibition curated by the museum's guards

Re:Baltimore Museum of Art will host an exhibition curated b... by pessimizer on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @01:36PM (#27896709)

All good points, except Baltimore was/is a heroin town, not a crack town, and The Wire was more like 80s/90s Chicago than Baltimore. Baltimore's drug trade (when I lived there) was run by many little gangs largely made up of childhood friends and just claiming a few blocks as territory. This actually makes it more dangerous, not less. The Corner is accurate, however, probably because Charles Dutton was involved.

Just like every city, it works hard to make sure upper-middle class white people are safe, but definitely don't leave anything valuable in your car. Don't even leave pennies in a tray visible from the outside.

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Re:Baltimore Museum of Art will host an exhibition curated b... by whimsicalism on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @02:39PM (#27897508)

> by many little gangs largely made up of childhood friends

This is my impression of how most gangs work. Did the Wire give a different impression?

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Re:Baltimore Museum of Art will host an exhibition curated b... by closeparen on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @04:22PM (#27898798)

The Avon Barksdale gang is a professional, almost corporate empire. The inner circle is family but it runs from neighborhood boys as foot soldiers all the way up through a “COO” type (Stringer Bell) attending business school in the evenings. At one point the various gangs of Baltimore are amalgamated into a trade association that meets in hotel ballrooms and follows the Roberts Rules of Order. Leading to one of the greatest exchanges on TV ever:

“Is you taking notes on a criminal fucking conspiracy?”

“The Roberts Rules say the meeting got to have minutes!”

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Re:Baltimore Museum of Art will host an exhibition curated b... by hellbannedguy on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @07:46PM (#27900648)

I love these commments. Now the distric attorney needs to tell the police to do their jobs. (Really tired of resources being wasted on marginal tickets/dui's, instead of zeroing in on real crime.)

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Re:Baltimore Museum of Art will host an exhibition curated b... by dralley on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @05:15PM (#27912296)

If we're still talking about the Wire, it had quite a bit to say about the District Attorny's office as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAZZdL1qhk8

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