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Clips from The Wire - Misgivings (S04E04)

"Open containers, too."
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"- What's wrong with writing a ticket? - More of that, too."
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"The word is, the commissioner himself wants to juke arrests."
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"Long as it was in a paper bag."
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"They gave you that much respect."
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"Man's beverage was his business."
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"You took them to a restaurant?"
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"Yeah. Ruth Chris."
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"Linen napkins."
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"Yeah. Silverware, more than one fork."
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"How'd they do?"
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"Eh, pretty well, considering."
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"Did they embarrass us?"
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"Us? No, uh... we're fine with it,"
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"but, uh..."
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"and awkward as hell,"
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"but they made it through."
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"that are gonna be able to sit still for the statewide tests,"
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"much less do well on them."
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"These were the kids that were gonna make it impossible"
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"for anyone else to do well."
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"So we're writing them off?"
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"No, that's what we're not doing."
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"You're not educating them. You're socializing them."
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"They weren't being educated before. There's no point in being obtuse."
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"- Excuse me: - Hold on. Hold on."
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"Look. What he's saying is this:"
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"I mean, you put a textbook in front of these kids,"
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"put a problem on a blackboard,"
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"it won't matter, none of it,"
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"because they're not learning for our world, they're learning for theirs."
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"And they know exactly what it is they're training for"
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"and what it is everyone expects them to be."
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"I expect them to be students."
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"It's what they expect of themselves."
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"I mean, every single one of them know they headed back to the corners."
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"Their brothers and sisters-- shit, their parents--"
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"We pretended to teach them, they pretended to learn,"
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"and where-- where'd they end up?"
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"Same damn corners."
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"I mean, they're not fools, these kids."
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"They don't know our world, but they know their own."
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"I mean, Jesus, they--"
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"they see right through us."
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"I think we made that clear when you approved the project."
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"that required socialization"
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"before they could be properly educated."
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"Roll call's over."
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"You get a line on your mother yet?"
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"How about that aunt:"
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"Ain't nobody else you know? No other responsible adult?"
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"Like who:"
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"I'm just trying to give you one last shot here"
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"because once I go on the street today,"
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"you're gonna have to go to booking."
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"Mr. Colvin. You know him?"
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"He used to be police."
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"Yeah."
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"What if you get the one snitch?"
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"Bubbles."
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"You get Bubbles to say he's Fuzzy Dunlop."
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"And, Herc, you worked with him under that number"
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"on the Barksdale stuff."
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"So how would you fuck up the lD?"
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"Fuck me, man."
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"is to stop fucking lying, okay:"
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"You grab your dick, you walk into Marimow's office,"
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""l attributed my PC to an informant"
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"when in fact I had it off a camera.""
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"That I got from lSD without going through the proper channels."
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"Maybe he does, but if you wait until lSD comes looking for that camera"
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"he takes your fucking balls."
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"Come on!"
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"Around the corner."
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"Got you now, motherfucker."
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"In going over some of my paperwork,"
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"Look at all this crap!"
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"Every day,"
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"more and more of Lester Freamon's bullshit washes up with us."
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"What the fuck are you saying?"
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"That my paperwork may have been a little sloppy,"
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"and as a result,"
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"No shit, you were sloppy."
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"Nothing there references a meet with a Cl 238."
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"You went through all my run sheets?"
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"Sir, listen--"
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"I don't care who it is. Turn that fucking thing off."
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"I am starting to believe"
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"that this Fuzzy fella doesn't exist."
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"I am starting to believe"
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"that you just followed Stanfield into the train station"
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"and grabbed the first broad he brushed up against."
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"- That what happened? - No. No, sir."
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"You lie to me now, Sergeant,"
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"and I guaran-fucking-tee you I will jam you up,"
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"and be there to pass out sandwiches at your execution."
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"Yes, sir."
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"You haven't brought me a case yet worth talking about,"
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"not on Marlo Stanfield, not on anyone."
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"You bring me something other than llD complaints,"
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"and I might have some reason to let a few things slide."
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"Mad at me:"
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"Dukie's just mad at everybody."
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"Ha ha ha!"
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"Snitch bitch."
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"Yo, what the fuck was that?"
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"I don't know."
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"I can't believe y'all are doing this shit."
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"Malt liquor."
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"Oh, come on, man!"
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"Hell, what-- oh, man! My brew!"
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"God! Man."
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"Parking in a bus stop, expired registration."
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"First-class police work, Baker."
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"straight from the eighth floor downtown."
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"but I spend my shift where they tell me."
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"Baker, let me tell you a little secret:"
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"A patrolling officer on his beat"
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"is the one true dictatorship in America."
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"We can lock a guy up on a humble;"
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