The Wire’s landscape is thick with men almost desperate to reach back and snatch some kid from the vortex.
Carver is one several cops and ex-cops taking an extracurricular interest in individual kids on the street.
The quartet of eighth-grade boys at the center of The Wire have their own way of dealing with bad police.
Even the aging players have a settled sense of place.
Allying with rivals to thwart a third party is the cold calculus of the city’s politicians as well.
On The Wire, everyone’s in school.