Over the course of this series, police chief Bunny Colvin establishes three drugs-tolerance "free zones" in derelict areas of Baltimore, and the programme carefully and even-handedly analyses how these would work and what the eventual political, media and public reaction would be.
But missing from mainstream analyses is the extent to which the growth that we've had since the Second World War, astronomical levels of growth, have been correlated with two things.
"Indeed, the storyline analyses identified numerous anti-violence messages accompanying the violent scenes".
I realise that people think they must set out their manifesto but, as Guardian columnists and letter-writers have argued, this is no time to rush into glib analyses and over-simple solutions.
The man himself paid little attention to all that, reading few of the countless analyses that sought to divine the ceremony's true meaning.
Snacks The NSA's Social Network Analysis Collaboration Knowledge Services, which analyses social hierarchies through text messages.
As an example of the way in which the full benefits of exploiting natural resources can disappear offshore, the report analyses five mining deals in the Democratic Republic of Congo signed by the state-owned company Gécamines between 2010 and 2012.
When it comes to matters sartorial, it's usually the Duchess of Cambridge who creates a fashion furore, as every style watcher on the planet analyses every thread, every seam, every button of her carefully chosen ensembles.
When the news came in last Friday that the British economy was shrinking yet again, I slogged through the GDP report, the City analyses and the this-is- going-to-hurt-you-more-than-it-ever-hurts-us justifications by cabinet ministers.
The Guardian feared the icon would be despoiled – as if the World Service audience would be treated to a steady diet of stories about car crashes on the M25 instead of analyses of Indian politics.
But the respected Cochrane group, which provides analyses of research evidence, is not convinced that there is enough evidence to say light therapy, cognitive behavioural therapy or antidepressants work for Sad.
