The Wire is now 15 years old but its themes of simmering social injustices, crises of police legitimacy and the war on drugs are still as cutting as an Omar putdown. University of Sheffield criminology lecturers Tara Lai Quinlan and Matt Bacon take a fresh look at what the show can teach us in 2017.

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