Slingers in Coatesville watch "The Wire". They have their favorite characters.

A young man at the Regency Park Apartments had a character on "The Wire" he said is "like me." But I have trouble getting DAs, police and educators to watch "The Wire."   

“The Wire” is  cops, dealers, hit men. DAs, attorneys, teachers, politicians, judges, social workers, city council members/drug dealers. 

State elected officials legislative assistants get caught on the wire.  Everything you find in “The Wire’s” City of Baltimore, you find in Coatesville, PA. 

The Wire's not a standard show. Good guys win. Bad guys win. Good police work. Shit police work. Expect comedy between cops. Comedy between cops and dealers. 

Not much cinematic music. Music is on a car radio, in a store or house. 

"The Wire's" characters, what they do, who their relatives are, their business associates are, their girlfriends, judges, real estate builders, teachers, school administrators, city council members, drug dealers, crooked real estate builder connected state reps. You need a flow chart to keep up. Just like Coatesville. 

"The Wire" get's it. The SPLC get's it. The "War on Drugs" is about keeping black people and poor people that might vote for Democrats down.




But change is happening.  Change that most people didn't see coming.

In 2007 motorcycle gangs moved most drugs.

I noticed the change in 2010. Oxycontin started it. White people addicted to Oxycontin moved to lower priced heroin.

Mexican cartels needed to upgrade.

Legal marijuana began to kill the illegal marijuana market. Mexican cartels responded, conceived a WalMart style, farm to customer heroin logistics system. The old Pagans & Hell's Angels drug distribution system can't compete.

Heroin is a white drug now.

The top suppliers are Mexico for heroin and China for fentanyl . The black slingers are the same. But the addicts are white. And there are white slingers in suburban homes now. It's an epidemic.

New York Times

In Heroin Crisis, White Families Seek Gentler War on Drugs

By KATHARINE Q. SEELYEOCT. 30, 2015