Almost every ranking of the greatest TV dramas in history has ‘The Wire’ at or near the top.  The HBO series portrayed cops – some clean, some corrupt – trying to fight crime in drug-infested Baltimore, along with junkies and killers, politicians and crime victims.  The show introduced viewers to the term ‘juking the stats,’ meaning a concerted effort to create fake crime statistics to please the top brass and City Hall.  ‘Making robberies into larcenies, making rapes disappear,’ declared one character. ‘You juke the stats and majors become colonels.’