Major Colvin's speech

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15 жыл бұрын

"Regarding Officer Dozerman, his condition has been upgraded to guarded. Until he can receive visits, he's been moved to a recovery unit.
As of this tour, all hand-to-hand undercover buys of CDS are suspended in the Western District.
Somewheres back in the dawn of time this District had itself a civic dilemma of epic proportions. The city council had just passed a law that forbid alcoholic consumption in public places. On the streets and on the corners. But the corner is, and it was and it always will be the poor man's lounge. It's where a man wants to be
on a hot summer's night. It's cheaper than a bar, catch a nice breeze, you watch the girls go by. But the law's the law and the western cops rollin' by, what were they gonna do? If they arrested every dude out there for tipping back a High Life there'd be no other time for any other kind of police work. And if they looked the other way, they'd open themselves to all kinds of flaunting, all kinds of disrespect.
Now, this is before my time when it happened but somewheres back in the 50s or 60s, there was a small moment of goddamn genius by some nameless smokehound who comes out the cut-rate one day and on his way to the corner he slips that just-bought pint of Elderberry into a paper bag. A great moment of civic compromise. That small wrinkled-ass paper bag allowed the corner boys to have their drink in peace and gave us permission to go and do police work. The kind of police work
that's actually worth the effort, that's worth actually taking a bullet for.
Dozerman, he got shot last night
trying to buy three vials. Three!
There's never been a paper bag for drugs. Until now."

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@hallabalooza 11 жыл бұрын

There are a lot like Colvin in the real world. But, just like the show suggests, they are being held down by ruthless opportunists.

@asavelakuse6865 2 ай бұрын

Idealism and people who ignored problems that soon got out of control. The neighborhoods that was home turned into warzones and cesspools. Drugs are here to stay only regulations can help

@C0smicMonkey 15 жыл бұрын

He based his policies of Rationale and Logic, not Rhetoric, which is why he'd never get promoted into politics.

@JimmySteller 8 жыл бұрын

One of my favourite Wire moments. I always come back to listen to this speech.

@Molijn 14 жыл бұрын

This speech is so powerful, too many cops nowadays spend their time on unnecessary things. It's time to go back to real police work; policing that protects neighborhoods, makes people feel safe. The 'civic compromise' Major Colvin discusses is what we as citizens need to pay back. The world would indeed be so much better if we were not focussed on just statistics. We should be looking at these cases as human beings and try to understand the underlying causes.

@77ZUUS Жыл бұрын

The problem doing so is the amount of resources it takes per case. The numbers do not work in the favor of the underdogs, and as it would turn out, in todays modern world, that kind of mentality has dissolved almost entirely. I hope you find this comment 12 years later and know your statement still stands tall after all this time

@JakeKoenig 4 ай бұрын

The underlying cause of Baltimore's drug and crime problems is their majority-black population committing those crimes at an insanely high rate. There you go, glad I could help.

@FreshmanFrenzy 6 күн бұрын

@@JakeKoenigimprove the environment (poverty, terrible schools, corruption, covert racism) and the majority of those black people wouldn’t feel the need to commit those crimes. Youngstown, Ohio. South side. Moved to a suburban area 10 minutes away with my friends and their grandfather as a freshman in high school and we all graduated college with our bachelor’s and we were selling and bangin as 12 year olds before that. It’s not just “the black ppl” and I see that clearer than ever today.

@mikezigi4928 8 жыл бұрын

one of the only characters in the show who wanted to some actual good

@royalescorpio 8 жыл бұрын

Yes! Colvin is in my top 5

@12328ajay 3 жыл бұрын

Well McNulty is real police too

@flymanous 9 жыл бұрын

3:07 - "a moment of god damn genius".

@malvavisco10 8 жыл бұрын

genius

@slimithy12 14 жыл бұрын

look how carvers taking in everything colvin is saying, while herc is letting it go right over his head. that's why carver is a great police man by the end and herc works for a shady law firm.

@bryansanchez6352 Жыл бұрын

“Shady law firm” Levy literally helps drugs dealers and murders 💀

@walttalks5979 10 ай бұрын

@@bryansanchez6352 I think that’s why he called it Shady

@megaboner690 4 ай бұрын

I think thats the definition of shady buddy 😂

@KingOfMadCows 2 ай бұрын

Herc was more compassionate in the first season. When they looked for Bodie at his grandmother's house, Herc took the time to apologize to her and listen to her story while Carver didn't care. Over time, Herc was influenced more and more by the worst aspects of the system.

@WingCommanderVinyaya 11 жыл бұрын

Major 'Bunny' Colvin. AKA The Badass Maverick Police Commander AKA The Hero

@Gesuselsaviour 2 жыл бұрын

Bunny passed down his charisma to Carver. I really liked their interactions throughout seasons 3 and 4. By season 5, Carver had essentially morphed into Bunny.

@VanguardSupreme 12 жыл бұрын

Bunny Colvin...he's good people. He's good police, too.

@alec1115 14 жыл бұрын

Out of all the characters in The Wire...Colvin is the best actual person. Maybe the only person that's a true role model.

@jakebasile651 Жыл бұрын

Bunk

@user-vl5qg5rf4n Жыл бұрын

@@jakebasile651 is a drunk that cheats on his wife and plays whatever games he needs to to get by. Sure he is not happy with the rules, but he toes the line.

@warrenward6294 5 ай бұрын

@@jakebasile651 bunks an alcoholic that cheats on his wife constantly, hes got one of the better code of ethics on the show but hes far from a role model. if thats the direction you want to go, lester was the better response

@tabbypappy 13 жыл бұрын

This was a true turning point for both Colvin & the show.Classic scene.

@jakexdilla 11 ай бұрын

Carver too. All of Howard’s brilliant speeches in season 3 always hit Carver and incentivized him to do better.

@romilrh Жыл бұрын

Bunny Colvin was my favorite character in The Wire. A man worn down by all the stat juking, corruption, and cover-ups he'd seen in his time, and in the twilight of his career, decided, "screw it. I'm going to try to do some actual good for once."

@shawndimery 10 жыл бұрын

And Hamsterdam was born

@7srchoed 5 жыл бұрын

This speech was so important to the series overall. The idea of Hamsterdam is so absurd in a real-world perspective that it could have easily be seen as the series jumping the shark. Hamsterdam just wouldn't happened in real life. But this speech, grounds the creation of Hamsterdam a sense of brutal necessary compromise and guided by a learned community history. What would our Baltimore forefathers do?

@audiosurfarchive 2 жыл бұрын

It literally did happen.

@Onigirli Жыл бұрын

Oh god why can't misuse of the phrase 'jump the shark' be a punishable offense

@BeeKay2715 Жыл бұрын

@@audiosurfarchive exactly but people swear they are sociologists and know how to fix the world’s problems

@rocliggins1366 5 ай бұрын

The series jumped the shark when they broke up the major crimes unit in the 1st episode of season 5.

@chrishutchison8682 Жыл бұрын

Went from great Police on Baltimore to winning games a Florida St. basketball. Quite the carter change.

@Danfitz2010 13 жыл бұрын

Regardless of your views on drugs and their effect on society any rational human being has to ask the question "is criminalising drug addicts working; cutting the crime, and benefiting our society, considering the many many decades force and prison has been the answer?" you could see the horrors of "Hamsterdam", it wasn't a long term solution, but the different way of thinking had to be addressed.

@7hezo 14 жыл бұрын

truth, truth, truth. we need it. here and now.

@tommybrown187 12 жыл бұрын

a great moment of civic compromise

@ravenouscolonelhart 11 жыл бұрын

I like how all the lower-level cops want to do is stupidly attack because they're justifiably enraged that their colleague was shot. But Colvin has been around long enough to see that blind fury doesn't strike at the root causes of the problem, and often even makes it worse. It takes real guts to propose something thoughtful and not gut-reaction in the wake of a tragedy, and this is the only way to solve the problem, since revenge just goes on forever. Colvin is the best man on the show.

@lou4brew 13 жыл бұрын

Carver will be the next Bunny Colvin

@getreadytotube 11 жыл бұрын

Bunny Colvin for President!

@luckybenny8871 7 жыл бұрын

Is this THE best scene in the history of.........history? I mean, an entire season, (the best season) of the the greatest show of all time, is based on this trascendentally brilliant speech. There are 4 shows that stand atop the TV Olympus (The Wire, Breaking Bad, Mad Men, The Sopranos). This scene may be Exhibit A as to why The Wire wears the label of the GOAT.

@DaleRobby 6 жыл бұрын

Calm down.

@bobbysealejunior6590 6 жыл бұрын

Calm down my ass....!!! I say Amen brother, your list is my list, just missing Boardwalk Empire and TWD.....#1 The Wire #2 Sopranos #3 TWD #4 Boardwalk Empire #5 Breaking Bad #6 Mad Men.....Best Shows Ever.

@jihigh482 Жыл бұрын

@@bobbysealejunior6590 The Walking Dead???? Really???

@jaspdx63 Жыл бұрын

Public policy makers fail most often when they lack the humility and the self awareness to preserve flexibility and discretion for the front line workers who know best.

@illflip 14 жыл бұрын

@Molijn well said bro. this speech is the turning point in carvers career

@illflip 13 жыл бұрын

@Killoea i think the daniels lecture def put some sense into him. but when daniels and him had a fallout in season 2 he went back to being a "rip and run" detective in the beginning of season 3. i think this speech,plus the lecture about real police that you speak of REALLY hammer home the point of how to "protectf a community"

@Aivottaja 12 жыл бұрын

Colvin saw the big picture. He is the example of someone trying to both uphold the law and trying to control crime. But he was careless by trusting his career wouldn't take a hit because of his years of service. Truly an example of resourcefulness getting assraped by politics.

@malachdorell6026 Жыл бұрын

this season was masterful

@dpayO2 13 жыл бұрын

@uwlwsrpm Because people were getting busted for drinking in public, they then put paper bags on their drinks so that others couldn't see they were drinking alcohol, and the police would let them go (as a compromise). There is no "paper bag" for drugs means there is no compromise. Nice speech.

@Zfahidy1066 4 жыл бұрын

Why should we compromise on heroin?

@dpayO2 4 жыл бұрын

@@Zfahidy1066 Lol 9 years ago i made that comment. I'm wondering if youtube will still be around when I'm an old man and people are still responding to 50 year-old comments

@rememberblackmesa 3 күн бұрын

@@Zfahidy1066 Because its none of our business if someone decides to take some

@TheSoldier0fortunE 10 жыл бұрын

Great. Fucking. Speech.

@Killoea 13 жыл бұрын

@illflip There was a lot of turning points in Carvs career. If you can remember in S1 when Daniels lectured him about being a leader, and later on in this season when Colvin lectured him about "real" police and how they need to be able to talk to the community instead of busting heads all day

@akhodagu 4 жыл бұрын

That’s strange, I suddenly want a beer…

@fpot Жыл бұрын

This show man.

@kaii231 4 жыл бұрын

Eat that George Costanza... THIS is how you get fired....

@uwlwsrpm 13 жыл бұрын

I don't get it, what's the "paper bag" for drugs that he's referring to?

@HighLordBlazeReborn 7 жыл бұрын

A legitimate reason/justification for the police to ignore the drug trade. If they could remove the violence and the bodies from the equation and localize the trade to one area out of the way of ordinary decent folks, the police could ignore it and get on with more important shit, and have an excuse if city hall or higher up questioned them why the drug arrests weren't being made.

@FreePlayMode 4 жыл бұрын

Later on in the season, Colvin offers a "truce/compromise" to the local players in the Western District of Baltimore. Move your operations down to these designated areas where there are nothing but strips of vacant houses/lots away from the normal working class people, and we will leave you alone. That way, the low level street dealers can do what they do without the worry of police intervention, and the police can spend their time, effort, and resources on things that truly matter instead of just coming down on some teenager for dealing, or some junkie buying trying to get high.

@kurthandrews6206 5 ай бұрын

Department policies affect the way cops do their jobs. Whatever that policy might be.

@johnhughes3625 Жыл бұрын

Good TV or movie speech until it's a corner where you live, and the deterioration starts with a "highlife" and the next time you notice it's Paterson N.J., and dangerous to walk past that corner.

@user-vl5qg5rf4n Жыл бұрын

This is why his paper bag for drugs was to move the dealing to uninhabited areas of the city and have 24/7 surveillance to prevent any violence. He kept most of the dealers and addicts in one place and greatly cut down on the number of violent crimes being committed by all involved.

@samfilmkid 5 жыл бұрын

*Mic drop*

@budders9958 7 жыл бұрын

So why does someone invent a liquid drug?

@osmoze47300 6 жыл бұрын

already done ,its call alcohol...

@FreePlayMode 4 жыл бұрын

drugs sold in liquid form do exist

@slimithy12 14 жыл бұрын

@danielhiryu there are plenty of colvins in the real world but there just not high enough on the pyramid to make a real difference

@readyrose3558 3 жыл бұрын

is this where hamsterdam starts??

@santos8468 14 жыл бұрын

I like that the characters hardly ever use the word "cop". Sure, Colvin uses it once here and there may have been other times as well (I can't remember), but overall everyone (including the criminals) says "police". I think that''s great.. It shows that the writers have respect for the profession.