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Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets
''Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets'' is a 1991 book written by ''Baltimore Sun'' reporter David Simon describing a year spent with detectives from the Baltimore Police Department Homicide Unit. The book received the 1992 Edgar Award in the Best Fact Crime category.
The book was subsequently fictionalized as the NBC television drama ''Homicide: Life on the Street'' (1993–99), on which Simon served as a writer and producer. Many of the key detectives and incidents portrayed in the book provided inspiration for the first two seasons of the show, with other elements surfacing in later seasons as well. It later also provided inspiration for the HBO television series ''The Wire''.
==Background==
David Simon, a reporter for ''The Baltimore Sun'', spent four years on the police beat before taking a leave of absence to write this book. He had persuaded the Baltimore Police Department to allow him unlimited access to the city's Homicide Unit for calendar year 1988, and throughout that year he shadowed one shift of detectives as they traveled from interrogations to autopsies, from crime scenes to hospital emergency rooms. Baltimore recorded 274 murders during the year Simon spent with the Homicide Unit.
During the two years he spent writing ''Homicide'', an additional 567 murders occurred. The year "Homicide" was published saw a record 353 murders. Simon said he was particularly interested in the demythification of the American detective. Although detectives are typically portrayed as noble characters who care deeply about their victims, Simon believed real detectives regarded violence as a normal aspect of their jobs.〔
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