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Wire creator comments on charges against "Snoop" and the justice system

Also check out Baltimore Sun for details on the raid. http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/baltimore-city/bs-md-ci-drug-raids-20110310,0,5092225.story

Earlier today,10 March 2011, The Wire actress Felicia "Snoop" Pearson was arrested as part of a large-scale drug raid in Baltimore and surrounding counties.

Comments from David Simon, The Wire creator and executive producer--provided through an HBO spokesperson:

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 was later found to be unwarranted and the charges were dropped. Nonetheless, I'm certainly sad at the news today. This young lady has, from her earliest moments, had one of the hardest lives imaginable. And whatever good fortune came from her role in The Wire seems, in retrospect, limited to that project. She worked hard as an actor and was entirely professional, but the entertainment industry as a whole does not offer a great many roles for those who can portray people from the other America. There are, in fact, relatively few stories told about the other America.

Beyond that, I am waiting to see whether the charges against Felicia relate to heroin or marijuana. Obviously, the former would be, to my mind, a far more serious matter. And further, I am waiting to see if the charges or statement of facts offered by the government reflect any involvement with acts of violence, which would of course be of much greater concern.
In an essay published two years ago in Time magazine, the writers of The Wire made the argument that we believe the war on drugs has devolved into a war on the underclass, that in places like West and East Baltimore, where the drug economy is now the only factory still hiring and where the educational system is so crippled that the vast majority of children are trained only for the corners, a legal campaign to imprison our most vulnerable and damaged citizens is little more than amoral. And we said then that if asked to serve on any jury considering a non-violent drug offense, we would move to nullify that jury's verdict and vote to acquit. Regardless of the defendant, I still believe such a course of action would be just in any case in which drug offenses—absent proof of violent acts—are alleged.

Both our Constitution and our common law guarantee that we will be judged by our peers. But in truth, there are now two Americas, politically and economically distinct. I, for one, do not qualify as a peer to Felicia Pearson. The opportunities and experiences of her life do not correspond in any way with my own, and her America is different from my own. I am therefore ill-equipped to be her judge in this matter.
Photograph of Felicia Pearson courtesy of Bryan Bedder/Getty Images.Also check out Baltimore Sun for details on the raid.... more

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Spoiler Chat: Who’s Getting a New Love Interest on True Blood?

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Aaron Sorkin’s Fictional Keith Olbermann Is Quite the Ladies’ Man

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Breaking News The Sunset Limited Video

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Gisele Rebeiro Interviews True Blood Actress Natasha Alam at 3D Creative Arts Awards

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Aaron Sorkin says he’s working on HBO pilot about cable news; observed CNN, Fox, MSNBC

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Top Baltimore cop says The Wire is "a smear on the city that will take decades to overcome"

To both fans and critics, The Wire’s uncompromising look at an American city in decay was not only a rarity in american produced TV but also what made it so important. It was a sociological snapshot of what the roughest parts of towns are like for the people who live there and for those who try to police it. It's no wonder that universities are offering classes on the series and that countless of articles have been written about the show set in Baltimore. But it seems not everyone is happy with the authenticity of the show. Baltimore’s Police Commissioner Frederick H. Bealefeld, it seems, just wishes it had been more like CSI: Miami with great looking cops and where murders get solved in an hour. He even went as far as saying that The Wire is a “smear on this city that will take decades to overcome.”Have a look at his rant below and then read what David Simon, the creator of The Wire said in his uncompromising rebuttal below.

Excerpts From David Simon's Reply
Publicly, let me state that The Wire owes no apologies—at least not for its depiction of those portions of Baltimore where we set our story, for its address of economic and political priorities and urban poverty, for its discussion of the drug war and the damage done from that misguided prohibition, or for its attention to the cover-your-ass institutional dynamic that leads, say, big-city police commissioners to perceive a fictional narrative, rather than actual, complex urban problems as a cause for righteous concern. As citizens using a fictional narrative as a means of arguing different priorities or policies, those who created and worked on The Wire have dissented. Commissioner Bealefeld may not be comfortable with public dissent, or even a public critique of his agency. He may even believe that the recent decline in crime entitles him to denigrate as "stupid" or "slander" all prior dissent, as if the previous two decades of mismanagement in the Baltimore department had not happened and should not have been addressed by any act of storytelling, given that Baltimore is no longer among the most violent American cities, but merely a very violent one. Others might reasonably argue, however that it is not sixty hours of The Wire that will require decades for our city to overcome, as the commissioner claims. A more lingering problem might be two decades of bad performance by a police agency more obsessed with statistics than substance, with appeasing political leadership rather than seriously addressing the roots of city violence, with shifting blame rather than taking responsibility. That is the police department we depicted in The Wire, give or take our depiction of some conscientious officers and supervisors. And that is an accurate depiction of the Baltimore department for much of the last twenty years, from the late 1980s, when cocaine hit and the drug corners blossomed, until recently, when Mr. O'Malley became governor and the pressure to clear those corners without regard to legality and to make crime disappear on paper finally gave way to some normalcy and, perhaps, some police work. Commissioner Bealefeld, who was present for much of that history, knows it as well as anyone associated with The Wire.
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HBO orders comedy series from Judd Apatow and "Tiny Furniture's" Lena Dunham

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