The Wire depicted the police force in America, twelve years after the show ended.Speaking to NME in a new interview, Pierce – who played Detective William ‘Bunk’ Moreland in the critically adored HBO TV series – was asked what he felt the show had got right or wrong about its portrayal of institutional racism, particularly in light of recent worldwide protests supporting Black Lives Matter and focus on how other police shows present those issues.“I think it got most of it right,” he said.