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April 25. ( 2022-04-25) –. May 30, 2022. ( 2022-05-30) We Own This City is an American crime drama miniseries based on the nonfiction book of the same name by Baltimore Sun reporter Justin Fenton. The miniseries was developed by George Pelecanos and David Simon and directed by Reinaldo Marcus Green. The six-episode series premiered on HBO on ...
The American city of Baltimore, Maryland, is notorious for its crime rate, which ranks well above the national average. Violent crime spiked in 2015 after the death of Freddie Gray on April 19, 2015, which touched off riots and an increase in murders. The city recorded 348 homicides in 2019, a number second only to the number recorded in 1993 ...
The Baltimore Sun was featured in the American crime drama television series The Wire in 2008 , which was created by former Sun reporter David Simon. [57] Like all of the institutions featured in The Wire , the Sun is portrayed as having many deeply dysfunctional qualities while also having very dedicated people on its staff.
Catherine Anne Cesnik SSND (born November 17, 1942; disappeared November 7, 1969) was a Roman Catholic religious sister and a teacher at Archbishop Keough High School in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. On November 7, 1969, Cesnik disappeared. [1] Her body was discovered on January 3, 1970, near a garbage dump in the Baltimore suburb of ...
On August 3, in an attempt to solve the cases, Baltimore announced the Baltimore Federal Homicide Task Force. It was a partnership of the Baltimore police and five federal crime-fighting agencies. The agencies would [according to whom?] each embed two agents with the Baltimore police to help investigate.
LC Class. HV8148.B22 S54 1991. 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.
LC Class. HV5833.B2 S55 1997. The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood is a 1997 book written by Baltimore Sun reporter David Simon and former Baltimore homicide detective Ed Burns. This book follows the lives of individuals who lived on the corner of Fayette Street and Monroe Street in West Baltimore over one year.
The Other Wes Moore. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates is a 2010 nonfiction book by Wes Moore, current governor of Maryland. Published by Spiegel & Grau, it describes two men of the same name who had very different life histories. Tavis Smiley wrote the afterword. [1] The author states, "The other Wes Moore is a drug dealer, a robber, a ...