Comparing Mcmillan's Heroism, Institutions, And Police Procedural

The 2009 reading of Heroism, Institutions, and Police Procedural, written by producer and director Alasdair McMillan, focuses on Police Procedural within The Wire, an HBO series created by David Simons. The reading consists of multiple points that are stretched across the chapter, employing the beliefs of Plato, Foucault, and Simons. One consistent argument McMillan explains thoroughly throughout the text is how the institutions sway a character’s motives. These institutions are also what create police procedural and the actions of the officers within the show. The realistic attributes that are brought into the show are also explained to be a great construct of the disciplines utilized. McMillan uses Plato as a starting point for the understanding of a hero’s role in a story. The point of understanding Plato’s idea of a hero is to bring the structure of the basic ideology of a story’s hero, as The Wire does not quite make a hero clear and defined. In The Wire the hero’s are not the police or the corner boys. The hero’s are whoever make themselves such, instead. By Plato’s logic a hero takes an active moral high ground, though from Simon’s perspective a hero is not who takes the moral high ground at all times, but takes a few moments to a make
McMillan makes the point to argue both sides to make a conclusive argument of whether or not the institutions affect police procedural within The Wire, and how those characters who are involved in the police department handle crime, and the political powers above them that are impacting their