Homicide: Life on the Street - The Documentary

What goes through the mind of a homicide detective in the interrogation room?

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• Baltimore
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[DarqueStar]

Did one of the black cops play the city desk editor in The Wire season 5?

[theprofessor172]

@DarqueStar Yup, that's Clark Johnson. He also directed several episodes of The Wire, including the pilot and the series finale.

[rumisouth]

Why on Earth would you disable embedding for this gem?

[theprofessor172]

@rumisouth Did not realize I had. Enabled now.

[scottchambers60]

I have to agree with Pembleton; after watching real interrogations on shows like First 48 and The Shift I just amazed at how many murderers incrimidate themselves by talking when the police have absolutely no evidence linking them to the crime. So for all you murderers out there, never ever talk to the police and always ask for a lawyer!

[theprofessor172]

This begs the question: does crime make you stupid or do the stupid commit crime?

[easilyjaded2]

When I read the book and the section that this episode takes from, I couldn't help but want to rewatch the episode. David Simon is brilliant, and I agree with what has been said before, this really shows off his skill and the actors' abilities to pull these monologues off. I highly recommend the book to everyone--even if they aren't diehard Homicide: Life on the Street fans!

[TheCoffeeNut711]

the girl turns me on.

[09Tangie]

I love how he pulls the form out of the air lol

[dsk7419]

@scottchambers60 I imagine they're not in a right state of mind, emotions going crazy... Probably why they committed the act in the first place. Probably very vulnerable to deceptions and easy to manipulate as they won't be able to think straight. Much later sitting in the jail cell I bet they'll be kicking themselves.

[dsk7419]

@ScarlettOBeara That's a great episode and actually a real life case taken from David Simon's book Homicide: a year on the streets.

[h100spfld]

@h100spfld I have little doubt that if HLotS did a musical stunt episode, it would be better than Cop Rock, too.

[h100spfld]

@thebatman101069 I've long been of the opinion that what really made Homicide great was that it executed the soapy plots better than NYPD Blue (perhaps because HLotS still had that core of realism) and the legal/Danvers-heavy and also the RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES! plots better than L&O (perhaps for the same reason... a number of the L&O regulars said that almost all of their characters' development over the L&O run was in the HLotS part of a crossover episode!).

[thebatman101069]

@h100spfld and the movies SWAT and The Sentinal.

[thebatman101069]

@volimsir yea, the later seasons kinda turned into a soap opra-ey kinda of gooey mush. I didn't really care for the last season much. If you watch the documentary about the Subway episode, you can tell the network was probably giving them pressure to make it more like NYPD Blue, or Law and Order type of drama, instead of the realism the show portrayed when it first began.

[thebatman101069]

@theprofessor172 Both.