As a Baltimore native of a certain age, I am morally required to love The Wire. So, if you will indulge me, a brief comparison to The Wire is in order.
In the show (and real life), the Baltimore police and city government is hopelessly corrupt. They chase stats instead of crime and things keep deteriorating in the city. The irony is that its not because of bad cops or even bad administrators, everyone knows the system is screwed up, but there’s too many social and political pressures at work and its essentially the faceless system which grinds up even the most pure of heart and spits them out as cold, calculated operatives.