Brutal violence is present, but does not occur that frequently. However the the violence does become more frequent and brutal as the show goes on.
Young men get beaten by police officers on the street or while they're getting arrested.
Thugs that live in the street stick up people for either money or drugs, sometimes they get brutally beaten to death.
Gangsters often use kids from the age of 12 to 16 as soldiers, and they are seen killing people in some scenes or being killed in a bloody fashion.
An Anti-Hero like character uses a shotgun to rob gangsters of their drugs and their money. Sometimes he executes them with his shotgun.
Drug dealers and gangsters are unexpectedly shot and killed in a lot of episodes.
Several scenes feature high school kids getting into fist fights that often end with cuts and bruises.
We also see some people being executed in their homes, sometimes with blood splattering onto walls.
There are some instances where major characters are killed suddenly
Several episodes contain graphic images of dead bodies with bloody wounds, sometimes they are seen through photographs. Other times they are seen when police officers visit the morgue.
Shootouts occur in a few episodes, (especially in Season 3), and we see people getting shot and killed with bloody results.
People are often harassed by the police. Some officers make lots of vulgar threats towards young men who live in the drug ring which West Baltimore is being over run by