- David Simon On Homicide, Truth and Journalism Deal him out into the streets of Baltimore, a city with more than its share of violence, filth and despair. -Homicide That's how David Simon introduces Detective Sergeant Jay Landsman, Baltimore City homicide detective and the first man on the scene in Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets. That's also how David Simon began the odyssey that led him ...www.bayweekly.com/year98/lead6_10.html