In 1991, *The Baltimore Sun* reporter David Simon published *Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets*, a lauded non-fiction chronicle of his immersive year shadowing the city’s homicide unit. This work, celebrated for its unflinching portrayal of urban crime and bureaucratic inertia, was swiftly adapted into *Homicide: Life on the Street* (1993–1999), a television series that became a cornerstone of 1990s crime dram…



