Tapping into The Wire: The Real Urban Crisis Hardcover – Illustrated, September 17, 2012

Very easy read, hard to stop when one gets started.Perhaps I read it for the sake of the "Confirmation effect" or something like that but the book outlines numerous out of the box ideas used to combat teen pregnancy, drug abuse, gun violence, etc.If people would just get over their personal dogmas and beliefs that what was right/understood/believed in 1984 or some earlier year was and is always the right thing to do/approach to a problem the citizens of the USA would be a lot better off.In the words of that famous economist "When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do sir"/Pick this up and read it. You'll learn a lot.

The authors use the renown of The Wire to sell a book about how one of the authors, a past Baltimore City health commissioner, did everything right and all who apposed him were wrong and everyone knows it. All his allies were forward thinking and all his enemies were ignorant conservative goons. This book was written for use in community college classrooms and that is the only way any copies are sold. The binding is terrible. I hated reading this and cant be rid of it soon enough.

Good

I read this for a writing class where we talked about the show. Interesting read.

I was raised in New York City and was a huge fan of The Wire. I am not a resident if Maryland and a graduate student at The University of Maryland School of Social Work. This book was a great resource in understanding national issues through a local lens and a great history lesson. I would recommend it to anyone.

Not well written, even considering it is little more than a political diatribe.

Exstremely informative book. I would recommend it anyone in a public job.Now I have to check out the DVD.

Insightful.