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A review by melledotca
Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets by David Simon
4.0
Not a quick read, by any means, and certainly bears little resemblance to your average cop show.
It's a run-down of a year-in-the-life of Baltimore PD's Homicide department in the late 80s, and is the book and police officers that the shows Homicide: Life on the Streets and The Wire are based on.
A good overview into how the strangest little details can break a case, and also how a case that, on tv or in the movies is so heinous it HAS to be dramatically solved, can remain open and cold over 20 years later.
Article I just came across: http://www.guernicamag.com/interviews/2530/simon_4_1_11/
It's a run-down of a year-in-the-life of Baltimore PD's Homicide department in the late 80s, and is the book and police officers that the shows Homicide: Life on the Streets and The Wire are based on.
A good overview into how the strangest little details can break a case, and also how a case that, on tv or in the movies is so heinous it HAS to be dramatically solved, can remain open and cold over 20 years later.
Article I just came across: http://www.guernicamag.com/interviews/2530/simon_4_1_11/