04-18-2012, 06:32 PM
Hamsterdam and the whole Jumping the Shark Mcnulty crap in the 5th season are not particularly believable, but the politics of the police office (and Baltimore PD) are spot on.
The show explains why most cops are terrible people, even getting into an institution with good intention eventually grinds you down. Not to mention that a good deal of the political shit going on in the police department was based on incidents in Baltimore too. If you really think that cops, especially at the high levels when it becomes a political job, are beyond blackmail or juking stats then you look at law enforcement with some pretty rose tinted glasses.
And the Newsdesk reporting is pretty accurate from many people interviewed who worked in newspapers, especially in their declining days recently. Thats not surprising since Simon worked for the damn sun.
The union and inner city school portions have been equally lauded.
Really, if you look at this as a police show or even remotely similar to CSI then you missed the entire point.
The show explains why most cops are terrible people, even getting into an institution with good intention eventually grinds you down. Not to mention that a good deal of the political shit going on in the police department was based on incidents in Baltimore too. If you really think that cops, especially at the high levels when it becomes a political job, are beyond blackmail or juking stats then you look at law enforcement with some pretty rose tinted glasses.
And the Newsdesk reporting is pretty accurate from many people interviewed who worked in newspapers, especially in their declining days recently. Thats not surprising since Simon worked for the damn sun.
The union and inner city school portions have been equally lauded.
Really, if you look at this as a police show or even remotely similar to CSI then you missed the entire point.