All the technology used in The Wire, and how its changed today

 The Wire (2002-2008) wasn’t just a gritty portrayal of Baltimore—it was a nuanced dissection of the city’s social, political, and economic fractures, with an unflinching and often critical focus on the systems that run it: law enforcement, the drug trade, education, politics, and the media. Beneath its sprawling narrative, the series also chronicled the tech tools of the time, from wiretaps to pagers, showing how technology could be both an asset and a barrier, on both sides of the drug war.