He is a convicted felon who appears unrefined on several occasions, casually contemplating a home burglary at a public gathering (and in the presence of Cedric Daniels), and stating things such as, "Y'all tryin' to 'criminate me" while on the witness stand in court.
Price is arrested with a bag of cash after making a pick-up from the Barksdale Organization in season 1 but is released without charge when Davis pressures Deputy Commissioner Ervin Burrell.
Watkins also connects Daniels with Dennis Wise, helping the former criminal to open a boxing gym for local children in her district.
Furthermore, Watkins claims that as Royce has "gotten into bed with every developer," he has forgotten his roots by not helping the city's African American community and is covering it up by using Marcus Garvey posters in his campaign.
[1] Watkins angrily confronts Royce about his failure to keep his word and tells him he will no longer support his campaign, and instead sits out of the primary.
Campbell voices opposition to Tommy Carcetti's plan to fire Commissioner Ervin Burrell claiming that a good portion of her constituency would be against this action.
When issues pertaining to the city school system arise, Campbell suggests that Carcetti go to Maryland's Republican governor to beg for money to solve the district's $54 million deficit.
She experiences backlash from previous construction deals made during the Royce administration, when the local newspaper runs a story saying the city council gave well known east side drug dealer Ricardo Hendrix, aka "Fat Faced Rick", over a million dollars to move his strip club to a new location in order to purchase the land it was currently on.
When Clay Davis threatens to incriminate other politicians of the Royce administration when he feels ill-supported during his trial, it is Campbell who convinces him that it is more advantageous for him to go quietly.
She advises him to follow ex-Commissioner Burrell's example, who has been promoted to a more lucrative job after leaving quietly when Mayor Carcetti fired him over falsified crime statistics.
Burrell had threatened Campbell to leak an FBI file about Cedric Daniels, Carcetti's candidate for new commissioner, if the mayor fired him.
Campbell retains the file and threatens Daniels in the last episode of season 5 to reveal it, if he doesn't comply with the mayor's orders to falsify the crime statistics.
Throughout the first season, Marla advised Cedric to build the case his superiors were demanding (quick and simple, with low-level busts) but he is pushed to more elaborate investigative work by the detectives he commands.
Marla had the support and guidance of State Delegate Odell Watkins but ran against Eunetta Perkins, an old ally of Mayor Clarence Royce's.
Marla, alongside Watkins, attends the funeral of a witness murdered in the district and learns that Tommy Carcetti is supportive of her campaign, despite her being part of Royce's ticket.
"Tony" Gray first appeared as a Democratic Baltimore Councilman in season three, working alongside his good friend Tommy Carcetti on the public safety subcommittee.
Gray becomes disillusioned with Mayor Royce and uses his position on the committee to berate senior police officials including acting commissioner Burrell.
Carcetti's deputy campaign manager Norman Wilson feeds Gray a story about the police department covering up the murder of a state's witness.
[8][9][5][10][11] [12][13][14][15][16] Steintorf is concerned that Carcetti needs to pick a suitable successor so that people feel comfortable with him leaving Baltimore for the governor's chair.
Steintorf thinks that Nerese Campbell's links to corruption make her unsuitable and suggests that State's Attorney Rupert Bond might be a preferable alternative.
Carcetti and Steintorf reject State Senator Clay Davis' offer to smooth over the transitions in the police department in exchange for assistance in his corruption case.
[29][30] Once the serial killer is revealed to be fake, Steintorf negotiates with William Rawls, Daniels, Bond, and Rhonda Pearlman to ensure that a thorough cover-up is put into effect.
[31][32] Wilson is a former journalist, professional Democratic political operative and deputy manager of Tommy Carcetti's campaign in the mayoral race.
In season three, Parker is the first to see that Royce is politically vulnerable because of Baltimore's rising crime rate and urges the mayor to fire acting Police Commissioner Ervin Burrell.
When drug tolerant zones set up by police district commander Howard "Bunny" Colvin are exposed in Western Baltimore, Parker advises that it would be a disaster to support them, despite a fall in the areas' crime rate.
Parker first appears quick to crack down on Burrell and Demper when key political figures are served with subpoenas for their records by the Baltimore police department in season four.
She is reluctant to work for a white candidate in a predominantly African American city, but Carcetti convinces her he is worth taking a chance on.
At the same time, D'Agostino meets Jimmy McNulty at a school open house for his sons and they quickly become involved in a strictly sexual relationship.
Detective Kima Greggs serves Krawczyk with a subpoena for financial records, as part of Lester Freamon's investigation into the Barksdale money trail.
Michael Willis had been a recurring character on David Simon's previous show, Homicide: Life on the Street, playing a deceitful corrupt lawyer.