David Simon, who created the series, spent more than a decade in what job before he wrote for television?

Police reporter for The Baltimore Sun

Longshoreman on the city's waterfront

Public defender in the city's criminal courts

Homicide detective with the city police department

Co-creator Ed Burns held which two jobs before he began writing for television?

Newspaper editor, then city councilman

Police detective, then public school teacher

Federal prosecutor, then criminal defense lawyer

Firefighter, then longshoremen's union organizer

The port and the stevedores' union

The mayor's office and city hall

Michael Connelly, Patricia Cornwell and Carl Hiaasen

George Pelecanos, Richard Price and Dennis Lehane

James Ellroy, Elmore Leonard and Walter Mosley

Don Winslow, Laura Lippman and Attica Locke

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Real trivia about The Wire: its characters, its running jokes, and what happens across the run.

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