Spike TV’s DEA Series Premiere Now Playing Online
This post is for two people: Jay and Singe. Spike TV have just launched a new reality series that premiered this week called DEA, which follows the Detroit area Drug Enforcement Task Force in their day to day struggle against kingpins and pushers. It looks pretty gritty and intense… COPS meets The Wire perhaps? They are currently streaming the entire first episode online right now, so check it out and see if it’s up your alley. DEA airs on Wednesday nights at 11 pm EST.
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I saw a commercial for this while watch Cops last saturday actually. (Not sure why the commercial was on Fox) I’m pumped.
Posted by Jay C. on April 4th, 2008I heard on Howard Stern that this is produced by Al Roker. I don’t know why I find that amusing.
Posted by Chris on April 4th, 2008I have a comment as well as a concern about the way this “DEA” has started out. It is very racist to whoever wrote the script because all I’ve seen so far are African American men being apprehended and coerced into setting up other African American men. Well, where do you think the drugs come from (huh?) It sure as hell don’t come from the hood, so why are you trying to make it out to be that way. Stop portraying us in this manner dammit. We don’t go get the shit, and we definitely don’t make it either. So why not show the people who do produce it and bring to the hoods. Please stop hyping this up as if African Americans are some kind of fucked up ass people because we’re not. I am so upset at this moment because it’s shit like this that continues to put stigma on us.
Posted by Doris L. Johnson on April 12th, 2008I have a comment about Doris’s comment. They are not being racist cause the majority of the people that live in detroit are African Americans. Don’t pull the race card cause that is total crap. If you don’t like the show then don’t watch it and quit bitching about it. I’m tired of hearing the race card everytime something happens. So my final words on her comment get over it!!! I love the show and I’m glad that they put a show like this on so we can get a birds eye view of what they have to deal with.
Posted by John Comeau on April 16th, 2008The show is amazing. One of the best I’ve ever seen. And as for “whoever wrote the script,” it’s a reality show– a documentary, there is no script. So if it seems like a lot of blacks are being arrested (I heard were using black now) maybe you should take a look at the area demographics. I agree with John, were all sick of the race card. This show just gives me a lot of respect for these agents. They are literally stopping criminals in my neighborhood.
Posted by chris on April 18th, 2008watched the semi/meth bust 4/1/2009
Posted by Penn on March 31st, 2009where they spent 38 hrs. and finally found it in the cab of the truck. do u think we are stupid? they planted it when there was none to be found.
For those of you who think the one person above is playing the “race card”, you should look at the 2000 census data on the website http://www.drugwarfacts.org. The numbers don’t lie. One of the statistics I found so astounding I had to do a double take. In D.C., over 60% of the population is black. Taking this number into account, around 99% of incarcerated people from the city are black. Every state has a disproportianate number of black people in jail or prison. If that doesn’t bother you, I would pay attention to the first raid the DEA Detroit group conducts. I’m not referring to the one during the opening sequence. It is the first “official” raid. Watch it in slow motion even. You will see a young black man standing on the sidewalk when the raid van pulls up in front of him. The man is startled and throws his hands in the air. After this, he is then thrown to the ground, and told, “Get on the God damn ground!” By the way, I’m a white middle aged woman, and I definitely am bothered by the fact that all but about 2 or 3 people arrested throughout all 6 episodes are black. I just found the show an example of the failure of the current drug policy in this country.
Posted by Sandra on June 28th, 2009Leave a Reply