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The prisoner could not be named because the person that provided it feared for the inmate s safety. saying he was trying to injury himself intentionally. this is something of a bomb shell. joining me now is a reporter here in baltimore that has been tirelessly reporting this story from the beginning. jane, and you have taken issue in our previous hour with a number of the items in the time line that were configured. jane are you there? how are you? i m going to take that as a no oh hey, jane thank you for holding on here. so you what you laid out was just remarkably lucid, and as ....
the show was, when it was on, was relatively popular but not this huge sensation. then it became a this kind of cultural trove like people do feel like they know baltimore because is that how when they come up to you like every day, every day. i m associated with the wire. the wire never ended for any of us who were on the show because it s still such a part of the social consciousness but not just in the united states and baltimore but around the world. it s a great thing to still be a part of. so, yeah, people feel they know baltimore and i think unless you have been here and lived here for some time and are affected by the city, you don t know baltimore but the wire is a good way to start to have that conversation. like j.d. said, they went out of their way to make sure no one was painted all good or all bad. ....
The crime bill in 94? here s the thing about the crime bill in 1994, there was no vote. it was a voice vote. you didn t even have to be there. all in favor, aye, all opposed no, and that s how it passed. now uncontroversial the day was. more cops, three strikes 41 new categories for the death penalty. increase in the amount of money for prisons, decrease in the amount of money for prevention. that was just a unanimously held opinion across both parties. well, you know, when you have a vote and say all in favor, aye, all opposed no, and there is no roll call, you sort of sweep it under the rug and assume that everybody s going to support it. the law and order politics that have given us mass incarceration, many people point to nixon, particularly the watts riot, after king that happened in baltimore in 1968, detroit and other places as the starting point of that, right? mm-hmm. are we going to see a different trajectory come out of the kind of black lives matter movem ....
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Out, that were strong in my mind, that i hope other people can relate to in some way. and i just use that as the building blocks to try to tell various type of stories. do you think that we are going to see more art made about baltimore obviously you and david simon have played really instrumental roles in bringing these things to the stream. do you think we re going to keep seeing representations of baltimore? i think, look, an entire new generation comes up that grew up in baltimore and they will have their own viewpoints and hopefully they ll be able to get their stories, you know, into film or on to vel television and they ll be telling it in their own way and in their own style. so i think there s a bit of a tradition of it. you know, and i think that should continue, hopefully. like john waters that grew up in another section, he was looking at it from his point of view from the side of the city that he came from. i was trying to portray it from another side. and there are ....