The Wire
Introduction
The Wire, one of the most incredible television series of all time. The movie is very educative in the way it highlights major social issues. It tries to teach those living in the united states what is right for society. It pinpoints the decaying of institutions responsible for ensuring that people live according to the norms. One of the institutions is law enforcement. They are responsible for ensuring that the country is free from drug peddling. The television show is just a normal show, but it is more of an expose (Bowers). It exposes the slow declining America in the current century. Most people agree that drugs have been on the rise over the past few years. Without Tv shows such as The Wire, then the society could continue declining. In the TV show, the most memorable story arc from the Wire’s five seasons was the rise and fall of Hamsterdam. In this season, it involves a high-ranking police officer called Bunny Colvin. He was about to retire when he suffered an existential crisis that was triggered by the Baltimore drug war. The response of Colvin was to create a quasi-legalized drug zone (Bowers). It was quickly dubbed as ‘Hamsterdam’ by the drug lords who usually frequently visited the place. This was one of the stunning solutions Colvin had though of concentrating the worst elements of his district on discrete locations. This idea gave him a chance to improve on other places that had the law-abiding majority. Mixing the bad elements with the good elements could probably be dangerous to the whole society, the idea of Hamsterdam was unique and had good intentions to the general public. In the real world, countries have looked for ways to establish safe injections spots.
Thesis: Safe injection rooms are the best way of reducing crime and fighting drugs.
Colvins idea was good, but he or she never consulted. He did it as a secret, which made the politicians of that area question the credibility of such a zone. It even cost him his job. The idea was not successful for long, but its impact is being adapted in real life. Most countries are adopting sites called safe injection sites. This is after the benefits or the positive outcomes that were witnessed during the short time Hamsterdam survived. Most countries with safe injection sites can agree that Hamsterdam was a good move to improve the morality of the decaying society.
Colvin’s main idea was to help those who were recovering from addiction to such narcotics. The fight against drugs needed to be tactical since even if they were to arrest those involved in the peddling of drugs, some had already been addicts, and the only solution was to ensure they get an area where it is secluded. It also helped to prevent the addicts from mixing with the law-abiding citizens since it could have led to many people starting to use the drugs. In most countries, such as Portugal and Canada, they have safe injections. These safe injections are places that help people to recover from such diseases.
After the introduction of Hamsterdam, there was a reduction in crime rates. Drug dealers and drug addicts occupied residential areas across the street from Hamsterdam, and residents had feared for their own lives and those of their children (Saffou). After drug traffickers and users moved from the street to Hamsterdam, citizens no longer complained about drug problems, as they had done earlier, they were now worried about minor problems (Saffou). Citizens who were afraid to climb the steps of drug addicts’ alleys only complained about the noise of motorcycles and asked legal questions about selling snow cones. Relations between citizens and the police also improved. Earlier, the police were concerned about drug crimes before the creation of Hamsterdam; this made them pay no attention to building relationships with citizens. After the founding of Hamsterdam, the citizens of the town hall meeting were delighted to establish such close relationships (Kreit) finally. After a long period of dissatisfaction with the situation, the citizens of Hamsterdam were finally happy to live in the western district.
The Hamsterdam story, which is essentially Colvin’s effort to transform a black market into a semi legal-managed market, shows the ability of this dominant company to use policies to explore open strategic directions related to fringe economies. As a result of their lopsided impact on disadvantaged communities, low-value markets—lawful and illicit—produce huge consideration from pundits and researchers (Kaplan). This Article adds to that assortment of work by evaluating the exercises that Hamsterdam grants about the different components of the progressing battle against illicit medications, specifically police endeavors in urban situations, to tackle the issue from the stock side through the criminal quest for nearby drug dealers. These exercises have wide pertinence and materialness, including direction for investigators of the periphery economy.
Another positive result of Hamsterdam was the fact that public health services became more accessible to drug dealers and addicts since they all come together in one place. Public health officials provided condoms, HIV tests, new needles, and more for residents of Hamsterdam. Before Hamsterdam, drug traffickers/users probably fled to avoid being punished for drug use or trafficking and, therefore, could have avoided medical treatment for fear of their drug consumption and trafficking. People who ran away were at risk of wasting all their time and energy. The countries that have adapted to such safe injections site can attest that there is a reduced number of HIV/AIDs since the victims can now be provided with types of equipment such as needles, which never existed. When a public health official at Wire spoke to the mayor of The Wire, he said the residents are on drug treatment – this is a positive improvement test because it does so without the safe space provided by Hamsterdam. It was also possible that Hamsterdam would also offer drug traffickers and users easy access to health services that, under the constitution of the World Health Organization, would leave human health if the traffickers/users would avoid medical care for fear of reprisals (Saffou). Hamsterdam offered traffickers and drug users looking for more treatment options and took a step towards winning the right to health care: two things that would not have happened if Hamburg had not been created and everything stayed.
Most countries have adopted the idea of Colvin. An example is countries such as America. This has made fighting of drugs easily and also assisted in using a formal way that can help educate the ones addicted to the drugs. Since the introduction of safe injections site, it shows that using force can be worse since the chase between police, drug users, and drug dealers could lead to loss of lives (Bozza and Jeffrey). The police could also use the safe injections site to educate the addicts on the benefits of quitting the addiction. Nearly the most major cities in countries such as Canada have safe injection sites. The policy was passed with the aim of helping addicts. It aimed at uniting people by showing them that they really cared. In short, most countries have accomplished the setting of safe injection sites. This proves that Colvin’s idea was beneficial.
Hamsterdam was right because, in a short time, most inhabitants of the western district had advantages because it probably didn’t take long. Given Hamsterdam’s impact, the mayor and the police found it necessary to improve the way non-violent drug crimes were handled. Perhaps this new way was not to legalize drugs completely or reproduce another hamster, but Hamsterdam opened the door to a new perspective: it became clear that drug criminalization was not a means and this knowledge could pave the way for other, more sustainable policing measures, safer, healthier and more satisfying to examine at the community level. Hamsterdam’s benefits to the western district were abundant, but with its destruction and short-term benefits. On a positive note, Hamsterdam offered a long-term advantage: pressure for the police to identify their shortcomings and brainstorming and deal more effectively with drug use and trafficking.
Work Cited
Bowers, Lloyd. “Safe Injection Sites and Drug Injection Overdose: A Literature Review.” Available at SSRN 3415130 (2017).
Bozza, Steven, and Jeffrey Berger. “Safe Injection Sites: A Moral Reflection.” The Linacre Quarterly (2019): 0024363919861590.
Kaplan, Louise. “Safe injection sites save lives.” The Nurse Practitioner 43.7 (2018): 13-15.
Kreit, Alex. “Safe Injection Sites and the Federal Crack House Statute.” BCL Rev. 60 (2019): 413.
Saffou, Mazin Bashire. American Dreams: Portrayals of Race, Class, and 21st Century Capitalism in David Simon and Ed Burns’ The Wire. Diss. Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research, University of Regina, 2014.
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The Wire, one of the most incredible television series of all time. The movie is very educative in the way it highlights major social issues. It tries to teach those living in the united states what is right for society. It pinpoints the decaying of institutions responsible for ensuring that people live according to the norms. One of the institutions is law enforcement. They are responsible for ensuring that the country is free from drug peddling. The television show is just a normal show, but it is more of an expose (Bowers). It exposes the slow declining America in the current century. Most people agree that drugs have been on the rise over the past few years. Without Tv shows such as The Wire, then the society could continue declining. In the TV show, the most memorable story arc from the Wire’s five seasons was the rise and fall of Hamsterdam. In this season, it involves a high-ranking police officer called Bunny Colvin. He was about to retire when he suffered an existential crisis that was triggered by the Baltimore drug war. The response of Colvin was to create a quasi-legalized drug zone (Bowers). It was quickly dubbed as ‘Hamsterdam’ by the drug lords who usually frequently visited the place. This was one of the stunning solutions Colvin had though of concentrating the worst elements of his district on discrete locations. This idea gave him a chance to improve on other places that had the law-abiding majority. Mixing the bad elements with the good elements could probably be dangerous to the whole society, the idea of Hamsterdam was unique and had good intentions to the general public. In the real world, countries have looked for ways to establish safe injections spots.
Thesis: Safe injection rooms are the best way of reducing crime and fighting drugs.
Colvins idea was good, but he or she never consulted. He did it as a secret, which made the politicians of that area question the credibility of such a zone. It even cost him his job. The idea was not successful for long, but its impact is being adapted in real life. Most countries are adopting sites called safe injection sites. This is after the benefits or the positive outcomes that were witnessed during the short time Hamsterdam survived. Most countries with safe injection sites can agree that Hamsterdam was a good move to improve the morality of the decaying society.
Colvin’s main idea was to help those who were recovering from addiction to such narcotics. The fight against drugs needed to be tactical since even if they were to arrest those involved in the peddling of drugs, some had already been addicts, and the only solution was to ensure they get an area where it is secluded. It also helped to prevent the addicts from mixing with the law-abiding citizens since it could have led to many people starting to use the drugs. In most countries, such as Portugal and Canada, they have safe injections. These safe injections are places that help people to recover from such diseases.
After the introduction of Hamsterdam, there was a reduction in crime rates. Drug dealers and drug addicts occupied residential areas across the street from Hamsterdam, and residents had feared for their own lives and those of their children (Saffou). After drug traffickers and users moved from the street to Hamsterdam, citizens no longer complained about drug problems, as they had done earlier, they were now worried about minor problems (Saffou). Citizens who were afraid to climb the steps of drug addicts’ alleys only complained about the noise of motorcycles and asked legal questions about selling snow cones. Relations between citizens and the police also improved. Earlier, the police were concerned about drug crimes before the creation of Hamsterdam; this made them pay no attention to building relationships with citizens. After the founding of Hamsterdam, the citizens of the town hall meeting were delighted to establish such close relationships (Kreit) finally. After a long period of dissatisfaction with the situation, the citizens of Hamsterdam were finally happy to live in the western district.
The Hamsterdam story, which is essentially Colvin’s effort to transform a black market into a semi legal-managed market, shows the ability of this dominant company to use policies to explore open strategic directions related to fringe economies. As a result of their lopsided impact on disadvantaged communities, low-value markets—lawful and illicit—produce huge consideration from pundits and researchers (Kaplan). This Article adds to that assortment of work by evaluating the exercises that Hamsterdam grants about the different components of the progressing battle against illicit medications, specifically police endeavors in urban situations, to tackle the issue from the stock side through the criminal quest for nearby drug dealers. These exercises have wide pertinence and materialness, including direction for investigators of the periphery economy.
Another positive result of Hamsterdam was the fact that public health services became more accessible to drug dealers and addicts since they all come together in one place. Public health officials provided condoms, HIV tests, new needles, and more for residents of Hamsterdam. Before Hamsterdam, drug traffickers/users probably fled to avoid being punished for drug use or trafficking and, therefore, could have avoided medical treatment for fear of their drug consumption and trafficking. People who ran away were at risk of wasting all their time and energy. The countries that have adapted to such safe injections site can attest that there is a reduced number of HIV/AIDs since the victims can now be provided with types of equipment such as needles, which never existed. When a public health official at Wire spoke to the mayor of The Wire, he said the residents are on drug treatment – this is a positive improvement test because it does so without the safe space provided by Hamsterdam. It was also possible that Hamsterdam would also offer drug traffickers and users easy access to health services that, under the constitution of the World Health Organization, would leave human health if the traffickers/users would avoid medical care for fear of reprisals (Saffou). Hamsterdam offered traffickers and drug users looking for more treatment options and took a step towards winning the right to health care: two things that would not have happened if Hamburg had not been created and everything stayed.
Most countries have adopted the idea of Colvin. An example is countries such as America. This has made fighting of drugs easily and also assisted in using a formal way that can help educate the ones addicted to the drugs. Since the introduction of safe injections site, it shows that using force can be worse since the chase between police, drug users, and drug dealers could lead to loss of lives (Bozza and Jeffrey). The police could also use the safe injections site to educate the addicts on the benefits of quitting the addiction. Nearly the most major cities in countries such as Canada have safe injection sites. The policy was passed with the aim of helping addicts. It aimed at uniting people by showing them that they really cared. In short, most countries have accomplished the setting of safe injection sites. This proves that Colvin’s idea was beneficial.
Hamsterdam was right because, in a short time, most inhabitants of the western district had advantages because it probably didn’t take long. Given Hamsterdam’s impact, the mayor and the police found it necessary to improve the way non-violent drug crimes were handled. Perhaps this new way was not to legalize drugs completely or reproduce another hamster, but Hamsterdam opened the door to a new perspective: it became clear that drug criminalization was not a means and this knowledge could pave the way for other, more sustainable policing measures, safer, healthier and more satisfying to examine at the community level. Hamsterdam’s benefits to the western district were abundant, but with its destruction and short-term benefits. On a positive note, Hamsterdam offered a long-term advantage: pressure for the police to identify their shortcomings and brainstorming and deal more effectively with drug use and trafficking.
Work Cited
Bowers, Lloyd. “Safe Injection Sites and Drug Injection Overdose: A Literature Review.” Available at SSRN 3415130 (2017).
Bozza, Steven, and Jeffrey Berger. “Safe Injection Sites: A Moral Reflection.” The Linacre Quarterly (2019): 0024363919861590.
Kaplan, Louise. “Safe injection sites save lives.” The Nurse Practitioner 43.7 (2018): 13-15.
Kreit, Alex. “Safe Injection Sites and the Federal Crack House Statute.” BCL Rev. 60 (2019): 413.
Saffou, Mazin Bashire. American Dreams: Portrayals of Race, Class, and 21st Century Capitalism in David Simon and Ed Burns’ The Wire. Diss. Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research, University of Regina, 2014.
, one of the most incredible television series of all time. The movie is very educative in the way it highlights major social issues. It tries to teach those living in the united states what is right for society. It pinpoints the decaying of institutions responsible for ensuring that people live according to the norms. One of the institutions is law enforcement. They are responsible for ensuring that the country is free from drug peddling. The television show is just a normal show, but it is more of an expose (Bowers). It exposes the slow declining America in the current century. Most people agree that drugs have been on the rise over the past few years. Without Tv shows such as The Wire, then the society could continue declining. In the TV show, the most memorable story arc from the Wire’s five seasons was the rise and fall of Hamsterdam. In this season, it involves a high-ranking police officer called Bunny Colvin. He was about to retire when he suffered an existential crisis that was triggered by the Baltimore drug war. The response of Colvin was to create a quasi-legalized drug zone (Bowers). It was quickly dubbed as ‘Hamsterdam’ by the drug lords who usually frequently visited the place. This was one of the stunning solutions Colvin had though of concentrating the worst elements of his district on discrete locations. This idea gave him a chance to improve on other places that had the law-abiding majority. Mixing the bad elements with the good elements could probably be dangerous to the whole society, the idea of Hamsterdam was unique and had good intentions to the general public. In the real world, countries have looked for ways to establish safe injections spots.
Thesis: Safe injection rooms are the best way of reducing crime and fighting drugs.
Colvins idea was good, but he or she never consulted. He did it as a secret, which made the politicians of that area question the credibility of such a zone. It even cost him his job. The idea was not successful for long, but its impact is being adapted in real life. Most countries are adopting sites called safe injection sites. This is after the benefits or the positive outcomes that were witnessed during the short time Hamsterdam survived. Most countries with safe injection sites can agree that Hamsterdam was a good move to improve the morality of the decaying society.
Colvin’s main idea was to help those who were recovering from addiction to such narcotics. The fight against drugs needed to be tactical since even if they were to arrest those involved in the peddling of drugs, some had already been addicts, and the only solution was to ensure they get an area where it is secluded. It also helped to prevent the addicts from mixing with the law-abiding citizens since it could have led to many people starting to use the drugs. In most countries, such as Portugal and Canada, they have safe injections. These safe injections are places that help people to recover from such diseases.
After the introduction of Hamsterdam, there was a reduction in crime rates. Drug dealers and drug addicts occupied residential areas across the street from Hamsterdam, and residents had feared for their own lives and those of their children (Saffou). After drug traffickers and users moved from the street to Hamsterdam, citizens no longer complained about drug problems, as they had done earlier, they were now worried about minor problems (Saffou). Citizens who were afraid to climb the steps of drug addicts’ alleys only complained about the noise of motorcycles and asked legal questions about selling snow cones. Relations between citizens and the police also improved. Earlier, the police were concerned about drug crimes before the creation of Hamsterdam; this made them pay no attention to building relationships with citizens. After the founding of Hamsterdam, the citizens of the town hall meeting were delighted to establish such close relationships (Kreit) finally. After a long period of dissatisfaction with the situation, the citizens of Hamsterdam were finally happy to live in the western district.
The Hamsterdam story, which is essentially Colvin’s effort to transform a black market into a semi legal-managed market, shows the ability of this dominant company to use policies to explore open strategic directions related to fringe economies. As a result of their lopsided impact on disadvantaged communities, low-value markets—lawful and illicit—produce huge consideration from pundits and researchers (Kaplan). This Article adds to that assortment of work by evaluating the exercises that Hamsterdam grants about the different components of the progressing battle against illicit medications, specifically police endeavors in urban situations, to tackle the issue from the stock side through the criminal quest for nearby drug dealers. These exercises have wide pertinence and materialness, including direction for investigators of the periphery economy.
Another positive result of Hamsterdam was the fact that public health services became more accessible to drug dealers and addicts since they all come together in one place. Public health officials provided condoms, HIV tests, new needles, and more for residents of Hamsterdam. Before Hamsterdam, drug traffickers/users probably fled to avoid being punished for drug use or trafficking and, therefore, could have avoided medical treatment for fear of their drug consumption and trafficking. People who ran away were at risk of wasting all their time and energy. The countries that have adapted to such safe injections site can attest that there is a reduced number of HIV/AIDs since the victims can now be provided with types of equipment such as needles, which never existed. When a public health official at Wire spoke to the mayor of The Wire, he said the residents are on drug treatment – this is a positive improvement test because it does so without the safe space provided by Hamsterdam. It was also possible that Hamsterdam would also offer drug traffickers and users easy access to health services that, under the constitution of the World Health Organization, would leave human health if the traffickers/users would avoid medical care for fear of reprisals (Saffou). Hamsterdam offered traffickers and drug users looking for more treatment options and took a step towards winning the right to health care: two things that would not have happened if Hamburg had not been created and everything stayed.
Most countries have adopted the idea of Colvin. An example is countries such as America. This has made fighting of drugs easily and also assisted in using a formal way that can help educate the ones addicted to the drugs. Since the introduction of safe injections site, it shows that using force can be worse since the chase between police, drug users, and drug dealers could lead to loss of lives (Bozza and Jeffrey). The police could also use the safe injections site to educate the addicts on the benefits of quitting the addiction. Nearly the most major cities in countries such as Canada have safe injection sites. The policy was passed with the aim of helping addicts. It aimed at uniting people by showing them that they really cared. In short, most countries have accomplished the setting of safe injection sites. This proves that Colvin’s idea was beneficial.
Hamsterdam was right because, in a short time, most inhabitants of the western district had advantages because it probably didn’t take long. Given Hamsterdam’s impact, the mayor and the police found it necessary to improve the way non-violent drug crimes were handled. Perhaps this new way was not to legalize drugs completely or reproduce another hamster, but Hamsterdam opened the door to a new perspective: it became clear that drug criminalization was not a means and this knowledge could pave the way for other, more sustainable policing measures, safer, healthier and more satisfying to examine at the community level. Hamsterdam’s benefits to the western district were abundant, but with its destruction and short-term benefits. On a positive note, Hamsterdam offered a long-term advantage: pressure for the police to identify their shortcomings and brainstorming and deal more effectively with drug use and trafficking.
Work Cited
Bowers, Lloyd. “Safe Injection Sites and Drug Injection Overdose: A Literature Review.” Available at SSRN 3415130 (2017).
Bozza, Steven, and Jeffrey Berger. “Safe Injection Sites: A Moral Reflection.” The Linacre Quarterly (2019): 0024363919861590.
Kaplan, Louise. “Safe injection sites save lives.” The Nurse Practitioner 43.7 (2018): 13-15.
Kreit, Alex. “Safe Injection Sites and the Federal Crack House Statute.” BCL Rev. 60 (2019): 413.
Saffou, Mazin Bashire. American Dreams: Portrayals of Race, Class, and 21st Century Capitalism in David Simon and Ed Burns’ The Wire. Diss. Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research, University of Regina, 2014.