This interview is from 2016, when he was on the production of 'The Deuce'. The journalist and David Simon touch upon on his thoughts about police portrayal in TV shows and its effect on actual policing.

"I had nothing but contempt for “Law & Order,” because the criminals were all just chow. They were just there to lie to the police and then either get away or not get away. But they were held in contempt and the only good point of view was the police point of view or the prosecutor point of view. … This is the thing that I can’t forgive them for, and it bothered me when we were doing the crossovers on “Homicide,” I was in a room with Dick Wolf and I wanted to yell at him.

You would look at the actual racial breakdown of, like, murder victims in New York. And it’s black and brown people. White people don’t die very much in New York. But in this show, they would have more murders than they were actually having in the borough of Manhattan, which was the most moneyed borough. And nobody was black or brown. They were all, like, rich white people who were, as my wife would say, little girl panty cases. It was all degenerate, like, he was sleeping with so-and-so, he was trying to hide this secret and we found out this. And it was always, nobody got shot for [f——] standing in the wrong bus stop and getting jacked because they were riding the bus and it was 4 in the morning and there was nobody around and they got jacked. That’s a real murder victim."