Baltimore Police Department Major (season 1) Baltimore Police Department Colonel (season 2) Baltimore Police Department Deputy Commissioner of Operations (seasons 3–5) Acting Commissioner of the Baltimore Police Department/MSP Superintendent (season 5)
William A. "Bill" Rawls is a fictional character on the HBO drama The Wire, played by actor John Doman. Over the course of the series, Rawls ascends through the higher ranks of the Baltimore Police Department, eventually becoming Deputy Commissioner of Operations and, at the end of Season 5, Superintendent of the Maryland State Police.
His careerism and deft political maneuvering are generally portrayed as detrimental to the department and the work of officers under his command; seen, for example, in his regular attempts to offload difficult case-work to other divisions or departments, or shut down investigations in order to keep 'stats' down.
When Rawls is promoted to Deputy Commissioner, he is put in charge of the weekly ComStat meetings, a platform which he uses to bully and berate the commanders under his authority. He is a 'no-nonsense' leader who obstinately refuses to allow anything that might harm his career, regardless of benefit to the department. Little is disclosed of Rawls' personal life aside from incidental allusions to his sexuality, wife and children.
William A. "Bill" Rawls is a fictional character on the HBO drama The Wire, played by actor John Doman. Over the course of the series, Rawls ascends through...
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Southwestern, Western and Northwestern districts. Rawls is Acting Commissioner on a temporary basis. Rawls is Caucasian, and Mayor Tommy Carcetti is unwilling...
Rawls (/rɔːlz/; February 21, 1921 – November 24, 2002) was an American moral, legal and political philosopher in the modern liberal tradition. Rawls has...
Maryland State Police Superintendent, Deputy Police Commissioner and Major WilliamRawls on HBO series The Wire (2002–2008), Colonel Edward Galson on Oz (2001)...
concerned with politics and their own careers than with the case, Major WilliamRawls (John Doman) and Deputy Commissioner Ervin Burrell (Frankie Faison)...
Woodrow Wilson Rawls was born in the Ozark Mountains near Scraper, Oklahoma in 1913, to parents Minzy Rawls and Winnie Hatfield Rawls. His family's farm...
are concerned with politics and promoting their own careers: Colonel WilliamRawls (John Doman) and Acting Commissioner Ervin Burrell (Frankie Faison)...
their own careers than the case, Deputy Commissioner of Operations WilliamRawls (John Doman) and Commissioner Ervin Burrell (Frankie Faison). At city...
and act as an occasional informant. Deputy Commissioner of Operations WilliamRawls (John Doman) and Acting Commissioner Ervin Burrell (Frankie Faison)...
authority and insists that he clear his orders through Deputy Commissioner WilliamRawls. Major Cedric Daniels, a politically neutral African-American district...
unexplained income in the Eastern District. Burrell warns Rawls never to cross him again, as Rawls' own hopes for promotion have been dashed by the political...
were coined by the American philosopher John Rawls, but the thought experiment itself was developed by William Vickrey and John Harsanyi in earlier writings...
Margaret Rawlings, Lady Barlow (5 June 1906 – 19 May 1996) was an English stage actress, born in Osaka, Japan, daughter of the Rev. George WilliamRawlings and...
from Colonel WilliamRawls for releasing the ship without getting statements. While working the port case, Bunk worries about the William Gant murder;...
storyline than the fourth season; John Doman as Deputy Commissioner WilliamRawls; Seth Gilliam as Western district Sergeant Ellis Carver; Corey Parker...
Clarence Royce, who then orders Burrell to rein in the Major Crimes Unit. WilliamRawls suggests that proper supervision is all the unit needs and replaces...
after Rawls appoints the abrasive Lieutenant Charles Marimow to head the MCU. Daniels suggests a move to Homicide, and successfully meets with Rawls to facilitate...
leaks the news of Royce and Watkins' falling out to Deputy Commissioner WilliamRawls, who believes that Carcetti can do better things for the BPD. After...
notifies Rawls that Valchek will be promoted to Deputy Commissioner of Administration as a reward for his loyalty. However, Carcetti urges Rawls to ensure...
investigation is again scuppered by Rawls, who orders Landsman to detail the two to uniform duty at a polling station. Rawls explains to Landsman that whichever...
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