“A great village of pain & you’re the mayor.” Good line, how when the issue is spread out over the city it’s bad but not owned by the cops. But concentrating them all in one place, while resulting in less harm, will still mean dead bodies except now it seems to be city sanctioned.
0:06 When he says "You're like the blind man and the elephant", he's referring to an old Indian story about a blind man who feels an elephant's trunk and says "This is a snake", then he feels the elephant's foot and says "This is a tree trunk". Old Face Andre once told Marlo "I know you see it. You see the big picture. Problem with folks today, they only see the narrow view."
Except Marlo never saw the big picture. He said Omar was just "another nigga with a gun". He never respected his opponent, which is why his muscle made sure word never got back to him about Omar calling him out by name on the street.
Rawls knew something was up but couldn't prove it. Had Bunny been boastful and taking all the credit, it would have made some sense that he was 'getting back at Rawls.' But someone with a double digit drop and very keen to stay humble didn't make sense in the BPD. Adds a little bit of layering to Rawls being the first one of the brass to figure out Bunny's scheme at the next COMSTAT
It's a good lesson in how bad Rawls and Burrell are as commissioner and deputy ops, too. Keep people desperately chasing their approval for getting the stats that city hall wants, and that's a recipe for constant stress. It also shows that nobody has any real chance to take the top spot and reform the department so they can better serve the community. And these are the people Marla Daniels thought Cedric should kiss ass because they'd take him to the top (or however high she wanted him to get for her own ambitions).
To let stick up artists like Omar go into Hamsterdam, while the dealers can't carry around heat, yeah...that wouldn't of gone over well in the long run. That's like the sheppard letting the wolves get to the flock of sheep unhindered.
“A great village of pain & you’re the mayor.” Good line, how when the issue is spread out over the city it’s bad but not owned by the cops. But concentrating them all in one place, while resulting in less harm, will still mean dead bodies except now it seems to be city sanctioned.
0:06 When he says "You're like the blind man and the elephant", he's referring to an old Indian story about a blind man who feels an elephant's trunk and says "This is a snake", then he feels the elephant's foot and says "This is a tree trunk". Old Face Andre once told Marlo "I know you see it. You see the big picture. Problem with folks today, they only see the narrow view."
Except Marlo never saw the big picture. He said Omar was just "another nigga with a gun". He never respected his opponent, which is why his muscle made sure word never got back to him about Omar calling him out by name on the street.
Another quality upload from The Wire Universe
Commendatorri! Like a commander!
You gone land us both in the pokey 😂
That was a good call for Omar
Carver and Omar showed their wisdom in this clip 👍🏻
Rawls knew something was up but couldn't prove it. Had Bunny been boastful and taking all the credit, it would have made some sense that he was 'getting back at Rawls.' But someone with a double digit drop and very keen to stay humble didn't make sense in the BPD. Adds a little bit of layering to Rawls being the first one of the brass to figure out Bunny's scheme at the next COMSTAT
It's a good lesson in how bad Rawls and Burrell are as commissioner and deputy ops, too. Keep people desperately chasing their approval for getting the stats that city hall wants, and that's a recipe for constant stress. It also shows that nobody has any real chance to take the top spot and reform the department so they can better serve the community. And these are the people Marla Daniels thought Cedric should kiss ass because they'd take him to the top (or however high she wanted him to get for her own ambitions).
Agreed. Rawls was as sharp as a tack as well as excellent intuition. He also had a string of classic lines 👍🏻
Rawls was a crass, overcompensating, smug, vindictive individual... but I have to admit, he is smart police.
" a yo this some kind of full tilt set up man to catch a master scoundral " omar was diff for that line😂😂😂
Been waiting for this
Ready for pt 16 & 17 but on the real good work I enjoy watching these videos
When "reasonable Rawls" figures out what Colvin did and almost loses it 😂
oh never saw that omar scene before. he smart to not hit it and get on the police bad side
would have caused a lot of chaos to the project too, with drug dealers getting into an uproar. Might have been the end of it even
To let stick up artists like Omar go into Hamsterdam, while the dealers can't carry around heat, yeah...that wouldn't of gone over well in the long run. That's like the sheppard letting the wolves get to the flock of sheep unhindered.
Yeah - he fucked up with those lack of amenities etc.