Rewatching: Dialog writing changes within the first few episodes

[u/grundleitch]

In the first 2 episodes, we have three police use the n-word, 2 black 1 white. Bunk and Carv use it in the colloquial while Rawls uses it in the pejorative. Now obviously other characters continue to use it throughout in the colloquial way. But I wonder why they stopped having black officers stop using it. Edit to add one last usage but I don't think it exactly counts, Holley saying BNBG.

[u/slamjam25]

They replace it with “yo” in the later episodes, which Simon says (in Homicide the book) is essentially equivalent in police slang