Topic: Hamsterdam

Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby defends her "progressive prosecution" model, which focuses on diverting people out of the system to avoid "over-criminalization." The hosts compare her policies to the fictional "Hamsterdam" drug zones in the TV show "The Wire." They argue that while these policies are marketed as helping the community, they often lead to increased violence and the exploitation of vulnerable populations.

Mo references the HBO series "The Wire" and its "Hamsterdam" plotline, where a police major legalizes drugs in specific abandoned blocks to lower crime rates elsewhere. He argues this 20-year-old show served as predictive programming for current policies in Baltimore and Chicago, where certain neighborhoods are effectively sacrificed to contain the drug trade and violence.