It offers no answers to all the questions it raises and does not attempt to end on any kind of pat, hopeful note." There are few, if any, Bunk Morelands or Lester Freamons in this Baltimore." Chaney adds: "Arriving twenty years after The Wire, We Own This City presents more pronounced versions of the same old problems. We Own This City isn’t a sequel to The Wire, but it certainly feels like a complement, one that quickly encourages us to be suspicious of every cop we encounter rather than warm to them despite their flaws. "That’s reflective of actual events in post-Freddie Gray Baltimore as well as the evolution in public consideration of policing during the Black Lives Matter movement. "While the previous series showed us both good police officers and ones who did not always act in the best interests of the public, the new show is explicitly an indictment of policing gone all the way off the rails," says Chaney. "It is impossible to watch We Own This City without thinking of The Wire," says Jen Chaney of the HBO Baltimore police corruption limited series from The Wire's David Simon and George Pelecanos, based on Justin Fenton's book of the same name.
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