The wire
Season 3.Episode 1
Time after time.
-Rawls: - Gentlemen, the word from on high is that felony rates district byd istrict will decline by five per cent before the end of the year. We are dealing in certainties. You will reduce the UCR felonies by five per cent or more, or I've always wanted to say this let no man come back alive. In addition, we will hold this year's murders to 275 or less.
-Foerster:- Christ.
-Rawls: - Feeling a little fazed, Colonel Foerster? A little dyspeptic? Dys-who?
-Foerster:- No, sir. I'm good to go.
-Rawls:- Here's a fun fact for you. If Baltimore had New York's population, we'd be clocking 4,000 murders a year at this rate. There is no excuse I will accept. I don't care how you do it. Just fucking do it.
- Colvin:- Er, Deputy as familiar as we all are with the urban crime environment, Ithink we all understand there are certain processes by which you can reduce the number of overall felonies. You can reclassify an agg assault, or you can unfound a robbery, but,er, how do you make a body disappear?
