Ok I was reading some post until I got to this. I'm gonna agree on one thing, The Shield is my favorite TV show of all time, and IMO is way better then Breaking Bad, and I love this show too. But saying The Shields ending was better then Breaking Bad's is really funny. Of course I loved the whole Claudette punking Vic, and Ronnie freaking out moment was amazing, but that ending with Vic in the office just dragged and it was God awful to watch. Yes Vic lost everything, and he was put in a place to him that was worse then jail or death, but I still believed he deserved MUCH MUCH worse then what he got in the end. I would even go out of a lim and say that he was more evil and selfish then Walt. He deserved to die, he killed, technically sold drugs, took advantage of women, took advantage of people(even his own friends), and he did it all for himself. He got off WAY easy.
So yeah Shield as a show > Breaking Bad
Shield's ending < Breaking Bad's ending