No, let's not reconsider The Wire.

It was not written as a comprehensive survey of all of Baltimore's troubles for future arm-chair sociologists to ponder over. It was not written to address all of the problems that caused a riot more than a decade after the show started. It leaves out a million things about Baltimore of the mid-2000's, and doesn't even try to say anything about the Baltimore of the mid-2010's. It's fiction. And like all fiction - even fiction that tries to be as realistic as possible - it can't include everything. Even non-fiction can't include everything. By necessity, all writing focuses on the things that help tell the stories the writer wants to tell, at the time. And what doesn't help tell that story isn't included. And the writers for The Wire wrote five seasons of interesting and compelling stories about a wide range of very serious issues in a way that few programs have even tried. The Wire succeeded because it made those issues real and interesting to people who might not have ever thought about them before. And none of what they didn't address makes it any less of a great show today than it was a month ago - what they did illustrate, and how they went about it, is what makes it a great show.