Similar criticisms were aimed at The Wire a crime drama series set in Baltimore.
I've tried hard not to mention The Wire – must all crime drama be compared to it for all eternity?
"The Sopranos" and "The Wire" radicalized the crime show by telling their stories not as episodes but as seasons — the famed "novelistic" approach.
Hackney-born Elba, best known for turns in The Wire and BBC crime drama Luther, was the previous frontrunner to play Bond.
Barksdale, who went by the nickname Bodie, is said to be the inspiration for a few characters in The Wire, the gritty crime drama set in Baltimore.
In an interview last month with the Marshall Project, a group which scrutinises the criminal-justice system, David Simon, the creator of "The Wire", a TV crime series set in Baltimore, tore into Mr O'Malley's policing policy in the city as a "wholesale denigration of black civil rights".
All this is juxtaposed with what Catholic Bishop John Mone calls the "shame of Scotland": the grade B prison called Dungavel, where hundreds of asylum seekers, including the very children we need for the future, are incarcerated behind barbed wire for the crime of testing our "hospitality".
Even as the nation put Japanese-Americans behind barbed wire, for the "crime" of being Japanese, the Fighting 442nd Regimental Combat team, which was made up of Japanese Americans, fought tooth and nail for America, earning multiple Presidential Citations, receiving nearly 10,000 Purple Hearts, and over 20 Medals of Honor.
"Insider trading is precisely one of those crimes — wire fraud committed over the phone," said the government in its court papers.
Unfortunately for Shkreli, the same cannot be said of securities fraud and wire fraud, the crimes with which he was charged on Thursday.
