Bayliss was both sad and angry about his puny raise when he shot Luke Ryland, though in general, he is kind of an exception(and Ryland was truly evil, but not really doing anything at that precise moment, much like the Luther Mahoney thing.)
I love that the Mahoney shooting was so ethically ambiguous because Simon got pissed off about notes from some executive(Whether they did it more because people thought Dellums was good and they didn't want to confuse our little viewer-brains or what, idk, but they were like "Okay, but this guy has to die in the end.") Possibly "Beer Bad" energy, right? if they don't tell us drugs are bad, we'll run out to the corners.
And Simon was like "Well, it's a possibility, for sure, but it doesn't always happen. I have receipts."Probably so many receipts. CVS receipts.
"But he's the bad guy."
"You told me we weren't doing that."
"You said that, not me. Dick Wolf never minds."
"His mother didn't either."
"Does that sound like something an Emmy winner says?"
So David Simon wrecked fun-loving , clean-cut, Detective Kellerman's life.