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Clips from The Wire - More with Less (S05E05)

"No, sir, we've cut it to the bone already."
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"The cars are gonna go in service for the next month."
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"And for as long as we can get away with it, we're deferring all overtime and court pay."
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"How's crime? How are your stats?"
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"The double-digit decline you wanted, not possible with these cuts."
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"They're still coming, just a year late."
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"I got to throw every dollar at the schools,"
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"but you tell your people I know I made promises."
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"Where else can you guys trim?"
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"into all the bodies we pulled out of those houses last year."
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"Months of surveillance. Thousands of man-hours."
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"At this point, we're not close to an arrest."
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"You're saying you want us to come down on a case"
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"in which 22 people were murdered and left to rot in city houses?"
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"Last year."
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"I don't want anyone saying we're giving up on those murders."
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"I don't want to see that headline."
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"But given our fiscal situation, we could..."
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"We need to take away the ten-hour cap on secondary employment."
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"You need to throw our people a bone..."
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"or you could lose them for good."
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"Hold the line now"
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"and we'll get to a better place, I promise."
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"Say it, Norman,"
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"Truth to power, Norman."
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"When the governor threw that 50-some million on the table,"
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"He shorts the police department, the crime rate stays up,"
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"he ain't no governor, neither."
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"Just a weak-ass mayor of a broke-ass city."
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"- Feel better? - A little bit."
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"You?"
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"He taking our shit 60/40."
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"Yeah, nigger showed no heart at all."
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"- So my people could stand down there? - Definitely."
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"- All right. - Won't need no drama behind this nonsense."
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"And po-po's still up on you, huh?"
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"Yeah, hot all the time, man."
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"Today they got the white boy with the black hair up on the roof with Booker T Washington."
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"Watching with his spyglass."
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"The young 'un saw him climbing up. Yeah."
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"All right, so we'll do like this, then."
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"That's it."
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"All of that so he could swap a few words."
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"How do you wiretap that?"
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"- Lester? - Are we done for the day, man?"
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"You don't want to stay on Chris, see where he goes next?"
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"We've been on this guy for months, man, he doesn't slip."
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"And no one's kicking our OT."
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"Copy that."
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"Hey, Marcus, you got a count for me?"
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"- Spider, you got a count for me? - For you? No."
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"How we do?"
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"Can't say for sure."
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"They short, huh?"
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"Man, I just know they ain't told me."
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"Go home, man. Bug'll be out of school pretty soon."
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"Go get Bug. I'll see you tonight."
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"Greenhouse gas right here."
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"Yo, we short?"
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"No, we good. Got 60 left from 1,400. We on it, Mike."
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"So why you ain't tell Duke?"
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"Greenhouse gas is hot."
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"They're getting a little sloppier."
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"Did that meet in the same lot they've used twice in the last week."
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"The one in McCulloh?"
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"That's pretty thin considering how long we've been on these guys, Lester."
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"They all do, over time."
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"Someone say overtime?"
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"We did 14 hours today and we'll only get paid for 8."
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"Cases gotta go green before they go black."
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"That's how I was taught."
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"Couple more weeks, I'm gonna be in jail for late payment of child support."
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"I'll cover a round or two."
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"Then I guess I'm drinking a round or two."
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"Oh, yeah, and a boat dock, huh?"
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"Yeah. And the gazebo here... for my wife."
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"You get any word from downtown on when they'll start paying out the OT again?"
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"They haven't told me anything."
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"We have to shut it down, Colonel."
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"Explain to me how we come up on 22 bodies. Explain that to me."
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"This comes straight from the hall."
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"You're talking about a year's worth of work by my best people."
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"To just give up on all of that?"
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"Colonel, we haven't made an honest payroll in over a month."
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"Where the fuck is Carcetti?"
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"The man promised us a new day."
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"He's tangled up with the schools and we're on hold."
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"The mayor's made a few commitments to me personally."
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"If you want to call in a marker on behalf of this department, feel free."
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"And while you're at it, see if you can get your take-home car back."
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"Budget officer called an hour ago"
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"Hold on. See, if you move it here, then I got you."
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"OK. The little man bringing it."
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"Yo, Duke..."
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"I've been thinking."
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"I mean, you doing enough here with Bug to get paid."
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"How you mean?"
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"I'm saying, looking out for him."
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"And I've been thinking, like, if you were to get locked up"
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"for some shit, how'd it be for Bug, you know?"
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"Thought I might promote Spider,"
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"So, I'd be like a nanny and shit?"
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"What am I gonna do before Bug get home from school,"
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"clean the stove and bake some cookies?"
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"Before he get home, time is your own."
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"You beat me."
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"Oh, snap, you beat me."
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"Fucking liars, motherfucking liars."
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"I was happy on patrol. I was fine."
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"Motherfuckers come to me and say,"
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""It's a new day, Jimmy,""
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"talking shit about how it was gonna change. Shit never fucking changes."
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"See? But they can't do the right thing. It ain't in them."
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"The motherfuckers cut our overtime and they shopped our best surveillance van."
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"Don't even think about trying to requisition"
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"a new fucking digital camera."
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"They want to do it on the cheap."
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"- Bunk on the prowl. - Hey, Bunky-Bunk, come here."
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"how to keep paying Homicide."
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"- Cash only. - When we get paid, you double your money."
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