WASHINGTON — Talk of overhauling the criminal justice system is serious business – but President Obama also had something else to say.

Obama told David Simon, creator of HBO’s “The Wire,” that he was a huge fan of the program about life in drug-plagued Baltimore.

Obama and Simon sat down this week at the White House to discuss reducing incarceration of nonviolent drug offenders and making cities safer. A video of their talk was played at Thursday’s Bipartisan Criminal Justice Summit.

Obama says “The Wire” was one of the greatest “pieces of art” in the last decades.

– From news service reports

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