McNulty, the first protagonist of "FireWire", is a man with a terrible life. Because of his unsatisfactory work, he is messing around outside and just divorced his wife. He had poor living habits, was addicted to alcohol, and became a bachelor in a mess, like a garbage dump. However, McNulty has the only advantage. According to his colleague, he is a natural police (a natural policeman has a po pronounced here, and it will be tasted if you read it longer). He has an almost paranoid enthusiasm for fighting crime. He has a keen sense of smell, a calm mind, good analysis, and scheming. He has amazing intuition and deep insight into organized crime. McNulty had caught a Barksdale group before, but he also lost to the opponent in court. Around that time, McNulty began to notice the Barksdale Group and began to collect related cases and clues about the group. It was discovered that the group had committed more than a dozen murders within a few months and controlled the Franklin Heights area. Most of the drug-trafficking spots in China—five high-rise buildings, bungalows (seem to be all government public rental housing, poor-black housing, projects) and street corners. And the worst part is that he alone knows all of this in the entire Baltimore Police Department.
The reason for this situation is that the Barksdale Group is well-organized and has strong anti-reconnaissance capabilities. The number one leader, Barksdale, is very cunning and alert, and usually does not show up. Most of the matters are handled by the number two leader Sjunger (personally known as "Brother Line"). Sijunge is a funny person. As a drug dealer, he actually studied microeconomics at a community college and tried to use economic theories to operate the drug trade. He often heard vocabulary such as supply and demand theory, price elasticity and so on. He called on horses from time to time. I have a meeting to explain economic phenomena, take classes seriously and prepare for the mid-term exam. Although sometimes cruel and cunning, Sjunger is a person who hates fighting and tries to bring reason into the drug crime (game). This is the opposite of Barksdale's street habits. Because of these two bosses, Barksdale Group has certain rules and procedures (see picture) on weekdays. For example, you can’t discuss business-related matters in the car, on the phone or outside the site, don’t use your mobile phone, and often give the site to the site. The children on the Internet have a little money to let them out, etc. (similar to a letter from a chicken feather. Once the police show up in the play, many children will be heard shouting "five-0"-50,50 refers to the police, this name comes from the United States in the 1960s It’s a TV series that contains a lot of black slang that is not easy to understand. For example, 40 represents a kind of wine, "shorty"-"shorty" refers to a woman. Beef-complaining; tight-very good. Similar to many). Therefore, it is very difficult to grasp the situation in Barksdale.
Second, the Baltimore Police Department itself has many problems. Police officers are generally less educated and poor in handling complex cases. Most of them are high school or even junior high school graduates. Few of them have gone to college for two years (because their girlfriend is pregnant and have to support a family, so they drop out) like McNulty. It is even rarer for people like Daniels to have a law degree from university, as can be seen from the frequent typos in the police reports that appear in the drama. It can be said that if the black policeman in the play hadn't read the books for a few years, his future is likely to be mixed society, either becoming a drug dealer or a poisonous insect, as Bunk said in the fourth season. The police leadership is keen on street arrests, trapping (send a policeman to buy drugs, then arrest) and other simple modes of fighting crime. This was done because of the tight budget of the police station. As you can see at the beginning of the fifth season, because of the huge deficit in education (actually it seems to be only 80 million US dollars), the Baltimore government invested all of its money in education, making it difficult to maintain the normal operation of the police department and unable to pay wages. (This kind of financial difficulty is unimaginable in my celestial dynasty). On the one hand, funding is a problem. On the other hand, serious cases consume a lot of manpower and material resources, so it is not as convenient and practical as arresting on the street. Moreover, the social effect of street arrests is good. A large number of police arresting criminals on the street will give voters an illusion that the government is working hard, which is conducive to attracting votes, so it is also favored by the upper echelons of the Baltimore city government. Funding is one aspect, but more importantly, investigating serious crimes or organized crimes often involves the big fish behind them—politicians. They may be government officials in Baltimore or state legislators in Maryland. To irritate the upper body, the police officers have little interest in investigating organized crime.
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