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escape artist posted:Subtitles say Knocko. It is derived from Narco. As in Narcotics officer. I've never known if it had anything to do with knock vs. no-knock warrants. As a high school teacher in a corner of Baltimore that is just like the Wire, i can tell you that this has evolved into "knockers" and is related to the way cops are perceived to pound on doors. Kids who weren't my students would regularly ask me if I was a knocker because their paranoid hatred of police runs so deep that they genuinely believed it was likely that i was an undercover posing as a teacher. I did once ask a class to explain the term and they're the ones that demonstrated the knocking by pounding loudly on their desks and yelling things like "Open this motherfucking door!" Almost all of my kids, even the good ones, had stories of random police harrassment. Sad poo poo.
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