The War On Drugs: 50 Years Later How TV Dramas Informed And Misinformed Perceptions Of The War On Drugs In We Own This City, Pelecanos, Simon and many other Wire alums have reassembled to tell the true story of how an elite squad of Baltimore police officers called the Gun Trace Task Force began stealing money and drugs from criminals and – eventually – even law-abiding citizens. Simon created the show and brought in Pelecanos as a writer and producer, centering its story on a bold critique of the war on drugs - suggesting it had turned police into an occupying army that bullied black and brown residents in high-crime areas rather than protecting them. When it aired on HBO starting in 2002, The Wire spent five seasons exploring how a host of important institutions were failing a great American city - from labor and politics to education, the media and, of course, police. (Full disclosure: As the author of a piece for The BBC analyzing why critics chose The Wire as the best show of the 21st century so far, I am arguably one of those fans.)
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For fans of critically-acclaimed, groundbreaking police drama The Wire, hearing that Simon and Pelecanos were teaming up to tell a new story for HBO about corrupt cops in Baltimore was a little like hearing Francis Ford Coppola and Mario Puzo were going to make a new movie about the Mafia.
When the question comes, David Simon answers plainly: Is the new, six-episode limited series, We Own This City – developed by him and longtime producing partner George Pelecanos for HBO – something of a sequel to The Wire? "This is the closest thing you're going to get to a sequel," Simon says, laughing cagily. Jon Bernthal plays Baltimore police officer Wayne Jenkins on HBO's We Own This City.
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