selenak

The Aged Mother listened to my nasal voice on the phone and pronounced I was to leave my Munich flat and come to Bamberg for the longer weekend where she would cure me of the blasted cold that's been dodging me this week at ONCE, and I obey. Also she said my godson, whom I had given The Wire to watch, wants to become a cop now. This is...I don't know what to say to this, honestly. I mean, he's not a kid, he's 20. Moreover, he's half American and doesn't really know what to do with himself (he tried the army but not for long). But of all the things The Wire is, an advertisement for the police profession isn't one of them. I think. Then again, maybe the godson thinks he won't get the venal deputies/commissioners/majors and corruption or the frustration with elusive criminals, just the boozing it up with colleagues and the occasional beautiful woman jumping his bones?

Well, at least he doesn't want to enter the drug trade. I'm not quite clear what my godmotherly duty is here. Conspicously ask whether he's been following recent news featuring the LAPD and its former employes?

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likeadeuce

Hah, that's a little bizarre on its face though on the other hand -- the show is, particularly in season 1, a narrative about people whose skills haven't been appreciated by the system at large banding together and figuring out what they can do in spite of institutional stupidity and corruption. I can see that appealing to a 20 year old. Though you might want to have a chat and figure out if he's overrelating to McNulty.

meri

My thoughts exactly. Even season two has a bit of that feeling too.

selenak

You make a good point. Incidentally, his older brother has become a teacher and just volunteered for a German school in Namibia after finishing his studies and finding more local schools and the system intensely frustrating. An imp of the perverse almost made me ask, N, how about an inner city American school in the same town where D. will be a cop?