From Simon and Burns real life novel, The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner City Neighborhood (1997)

1. The Fifty Year History of Baltimore’s Drug Epidemic (60-74)

2. The Fifty Year History of West Baltimore’s Decline (86-99)

3. The Great Migration in Baltimore (86-99)

4. The Martin Luther King, Jr. Recreation Center (after school programs) (32-44) (120-136) (198-212)

5. The War on Drugs: Police Anti-Crime Strategies: Community Policing, Zero Tolerance and The Paper Bag Law (158-169)

6. Back Log in the State Judicial System (state vs. federal court) (158-169)

7. Political Representation in the Seventh District

8. Teen Pregnancy in Baltimore (Programs to address the problem) (221-229) (230-236)

9. Health Care: Drug Treatment Programs (237-246)

10. Public Education in the Ghetto (Francis M. Woods Senior High) (28-32) (276-285)

11. Summer Programs for Youth (289-300)

12. Job Opportunities for Young Adults in Baltimore (300-307)

13. Health Care: Disability Aid: Deserving and Undeserving Poor (360-370)

14. The Welfare (371-379) Post- 1996 Welfare Reform Act Situation

15. Health Care: On-Going Support for Recovering Addicts (379-390) (419-434) (446-453)

16. Section Eight Housing Grants (Single Unit Housing for 1st Time Homeowners) (401-410)

17. New Journalism: The Novel as Non-Fiction (537-543)

Resources:

Michigan Radio, All Things Considered, "HBO's The Wire In Academia"

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The Wire's War on the Drug War: The writers of the HBO series believe the war on drugs has ruined millions of lives. Here's the suggestion for how to end it by Ed Burns, Dennis Lehane, George Pelecanos, Richard Price, David Simon and William F. Zorzi Jr. Wednesday, Mar. 05, 2008
The Life and Times of Fuzzy Dunlop: Herc and the Modern Urban Crime Environment
by C.W. Marshall and Tiffany Potter • 29 May 2009
David Simon, Murder, I Wrote The New Republic, September 1997

Public Works Dept.: www.ci.baltimore.md.us/government/dpw/index.html
Recreation & Parks Dept.: www.ci.baltimore.md.us/government/recnpark.html
Baltimore State’s Attorney
Social Services Dept.: www.dhr.state.md.us/baltocity.htm
Baltimore City Public Schools

Amanda Hughes, The PARCC test is a welcome change: Maryland's new state assessment is vastly superior to the old MSA test April 23, 2014 baltimoresun.com
“B5—it got all the dinks”: Schools and Education on ‘The Wire’ by Lawrence Blum 29 Apr 2011
“These Are Not Your Children”: The Wire’s eighth graders and their fate at Edward Tillman Middle School by Georgia Christgau • 29 May 2009
“Posing Problems and Picking Fights: Critical Pedagogy and the Corner Boys”
Ralph Beliveau and Laura Bolf-Beliveau