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

Longshoreman on the city's waterfront

Homicide detective with the city police department

Police reporter for The Baltimore Sun

Public defender in the city's criminal courts

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

Firefighter, then longshoremen's union organizer

Federal prosecutor, then criminal defense lawyer

Season four turns its attention to which Baltimore institution?

The port and the stevedores' union

The mayor's office and city hall

Three well-known crime novelists were brought in to write episodes. Which trio?

Michael Connelly, Patricia Cornwell and Carl Hiaasen

Don Winslow, Laura Lippman and Attica Locke

George Pelecanos, Richard Price and Dennis Lehane

James Ellroy, Elmore Leonard and Walter Mosley

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