The Wire (Season 3) - Comstat: Legalised Drugs

[xxgodjrxx]

One of the best scenes of the entire series.

[ZipTartarWarrior]

@DankstgaTV... LOL. Good one.

[ZipTartarWarrior]

I know this was a television show, but there was some real logic to Major Colvin's strategy. I hope police officials studied this idea because what's currently being done in urban cities across America is working out oh so well, isn't it?

[DankstaTV]

@ZipTartarWarrior them academic white boys love his ass. he the po-lice that done legalized it.

[muhammedar]

haha the reactions are epic, especially from rawls; "goddamnit you legalized drugs"

[youngian]

Love the way the penny drops

[gatchAttk]

in a position like this it'd probably be smart to simply lie and make it seem like they moved on their own due to police patrol

[linearrecords12]

its sad that it all comes down to numbers and graphs and budgets. Colvin... under pressure to reduce the murders in his district from the higher ups had to fix his stats to keep his jobs. From the street to city hall...its all a numbers game. the tail wagging the dog

[LavaLampBlob]

The funny thing is how Burrell doesn't realise what's happened until Rawls says it out loud.

[ravenouscolonelhart]

Unlike his superiors, Colvin actually cares about the quality of life in poor neighbourhoods. He doesn't want shootouts and wild west shit going on there, which terrify, maim and kill innocent bystanders. He cares more about people than politics. One of the most moral characters on The Wire, and as we all know, that buys him one big fuckover by the corrupt system.

[will434usmc]

Bunny Colvin was REAL police doin REAL policework !!! My pops was a cop and he even admitted that the war on drugs was all "show & tell" and that no police force in the world could ever stop the drug trade. It's too much money involved and most of the drug dealers don't fear the police anyway. As long as a man can make thousands a day and millions a month the drug game will never die.

personally, and jus my opinion, i thought wat Bunny did was gawd-dayum genius.

[HuxleyWasRight]

there's a lot of money in the drug war, a lot of powerful people want to keep the gravy trains rolling, the drug war is designed to go on and on and on, in a big vicious circle.

Really the whole drug war is insane and stupid, the cops may bust a "drug lord" or dealer one day, but he'll always be replaced by someone else the next, that's because there's a demand for drugs, just like there was a demand for alcohol during prohibition.

the drug war is unwinnable! it's time to decriminalise drugs!.

[super5tar1111]

Colvin "I found another approach"

Rawls "I'm all ears Bunny"

Colvin "I moved them off the corners"

Rawls "GODDAMN it don't be coy with me"

lol I love the response and the look on Burrell's face. too funny

[Zigeunerweisen20]

This scene was so satisfying to watch after you spend so much of Season 3 seeing Burrell and Rawls verbally destroy every Major in Comstat. Then Colvin comes up and serves their own shit back at them. One of my favorite moments of the series.

[Pignoah]

Frightening isn't it? Rawls gets so angry they aren't on the corners.

It's not a matter of solving a problem, it's a matter of keeping it manageable.

[PMann9321]

"YOU! In...my...office, now!"

[goceltics339]

hahaha rawls is so funny. "Jesus christ you nit... he's legalized drugs!"

[Shack83]

And besides, why did Rawls and Burrell care anyway? If you think about, this shit is really on THEM. They told their district commanders earlier in the season that they want the crime down and didn't care how it was done.

[udfan07]

I love who Rawls spell it out for everyone and then there is the recognition of what he has done.

[ravenouscolonelhart]

I saw a documentary about shark fin soup. it's a shadow economy that sells to rich shady people in asian countries who actually want to prove how rich and shady they are by having access to it. the poor people who do the real work of catching the sharks aren't even at fault, they have to work, and their cruelty of cutting off the shark's fin and dumping it to die is simply cheaper. how is this like drugs? It's bad, but the demand aint going away. REGULATE IT MOFOS. So sayeth Colvin.

[IAMtheNewWorldOrder]

"He's lost his fuckin mind!"  "YOU! In my office NOW!"

And ladies & gentleman, this is exactly why nothing ever changes. It's more important to LOOK like we're TRYING to fix problems, than to actually FIX them.

[Shack83]

It was good (if not misguided and unorthodox) idea, actually. And besides, how many of those district commanders apart from Colvin GENUINELY had the reduction in crime that Rawls and Burrell demanded? None.

It wasn't just about keeping his post, Colvin wanted to create a "paper bag" for drugs, so that cops could do real police work. Like McNulty, Daniels and even Rawls, Colvin knew the numbers game ruined the police dept. He tried to change it, and his actions have truth in them. But who cared?

[cmjohnson61]

@Shack83, I could not agree more with what you wrote. If Colvin had the backing of the City's administration, he could have made this idea really work- I opine.

[pandasweater]

Colvin's way was the only way he saw out. After all the corruption he saw, he wanted change. This wasn't the way to do it. I don't even know if there is a way.

[MagicSeal]

@hesketh7085 I'm empathetic to your position, being involved in the day to day problems of the drug trade, whatever aspect it is with which you deal. Do consider, however, that the current war on drugs doesn't necessarily address the problems of illicit drug use. It's worth noting that many problems of drugs concerning crime are negated upon legalization. It may not be the answer, but I think that innovative thinking concerning the drugs trade should be embraced, rather than stark refusal.

[DocSkribblez]

"YOU -- +IN+ MY OFFICE...NOW!!" {*scowls*}

[Wobbothe3rd]

@hesketh7085 Wrong. The crime that comes from the drug industry is mostly due to the fact that economic actors (consumers and dealers) cannot rely on the state to enforce rules. If drugs were legalized the drug trade would be no more or less prone to crime than the fur trade or the computer trade.

[CrowServo3000]

Burrel is a live action Cleveland Brown

[will434usmc]

Major Colvin was the man !!!!!!!  Yea Bunny

[NicolasYates]

@hesketh7085 True, but it would have definitely had more potential as an immediate resolution to the problem until something much more potent could be put into motion. As far as long term, there are satelites that can catch a coin drop in the street, so they should be able to pick up exactly where it's coming from, who's growing it, how it's still making its way into the U.S., etc...

[NicolasYates]

This is the part of the season that truly highlights a flaw in close-minded thinking. People are stuck on the fact that while it is legalized dealing, they never took into consideration how much peace came to West Baltimore.

[cmjohnson61]

YOU, in my office...now!

-Outstanding scene.

[waveali]

The looks on the Rawls and the police commissioner face as they realize what Colvin is telling them is classic.

[sunnypop28]

its funny how the whole time rawls was the cocksucker, lmao

[vmen]

My favorite scene is where Rawls demands the stats from Bunny and makes some comment about a stripper outside with his stats.

[ZidaneBaggio99]

Damn I miss this show!

[FinarryKahn]

"God dammit! Don't be coy with me major...I can see that."

[nick2293]

"He's lost his mind, he's lost his fucking mind."

[elweffa]

"You, in my office now!"

[Kartel10304]

Colvin is the man

[Steadmanofour]

Frak the deputy, frak Rawls, frak the suits, Colvin was right God damnit.

[vilhelm999]

Wank.

[MikefromMadrid]

@vilhelm999 twat

[vilhelm999]

I don't even remember what I put but cheers for the constuctive comment about my character!