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We Own This City Breaks The Wire's Most Important Rule
The characters in We Own This City betray The Wire’s overarching themes of morality in crime. More than 14 years after the ending of the popular HBO crime series, creator and former police reporter David Simon has returned to the platform with another Baltimore-based story of institutional rot. Although the setting and tone of both series are largely the same, the antagonists of We Own This City differ greatly from The Wire's, operating under a looser set of morals despite their elevated social status.